內容簡介
內容簡介 廣受各個世代的讀者歡迎的經典童話故事-「美女與野獸」,這回推出了全新再版,不僅有全新設計的書封,裡頭更精簡易懂的文字敘述,也讓小讀者們閱讀時更容易理解。繪本中細緻的畫風,一一描繪出美女和野獸獨特的角色風格,和他們所居住的魔幻城堡裡頭那些伺候他們生活起居的僕人們。若讀者閱讀本書時看得夠仔細,將會發現繪本裡一幅幅的掛毯中,隱藏了許多的蛛絲馬跡,而他們一個個都是解開野獸的祕密的線索,讀者在閱讀過程中亦可享受抽絲剝繭的樂趣,這也讓本書和其他「美女與野獸」繪本相比時更顯得與眾不同。這個經典的法國童話,近年來推出了許多不同的新版本,受讀者歡迎的程度仍歷久不衰。本書的作者是知名繪本作家Jan Brett,她的代表作品有”Goldilocks and the Three Bears”和”The Mitten”。
作者介紹
作者介紹 With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, ""I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.""As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. ""It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain,"" she says. ""I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting.""Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. ""From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books.""With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, ""I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.""As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. ""It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain,"" she says. ""I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting.""Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. ""From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books.""