Do You Remember?

想念過去  未來，一樣美好嗎？

你聽得到清晨的風吹過樹林嗎？

你能感覺到雪花落在你的手腕上嗎？

你能嚐到溫暖莓果的甜味嗎？

你聽得到春天青蛙池裡的聲音嗎？

睡前，男孩和媽媽躺在新公寓的床上，天南地北的地聊天，分享彼此最美好的回憶：和爸爸一起野餐、從自行車上摔到柔軟的草堆上、暴風雨斷電時燃燒舊油燈，留下濃濃的氣味。不論是恬靜的、驚嚇的、濃烈的，都是最好的回憶。但現在，新的家裡，只有母子倆，充滿回憶的房子在遙遠的另一頭。也許有一天，這個新家也會填滿各式各樣的記憶。《Small in the City》《 Talk Like a River》屢獲殊榮的Sydney Smith簡短的深情的文字，描繪善感的男孩，面對新環境的複雜情感，快樂和悲傷，結束和開始交織一起的內心世界。

From the multiple award-winning creator of Small in the City and the illustrator of I Talk Like a River comes a fresh and moving look at memories, filtered through the mind of a child.
Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out.

Now it’s just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined.

In a series of warm and wistful vignettes, as achingly fleeting as childhood memories always become, Sydney Smith takes us into the mind of a young person processing a bevy of complex emotions during a major life change. Do You Remember? is a stirring meditation on holding fast to the best of the past, and choosing to believe in the future.