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繪本作者 : Leo Lionni
出版社 : Scholastic
特色 : 很 ~~~ fish
草莓的繪本分級 : Level 2


挺喜歡這本繪本

當然 Scholastic 這家出版社並不是以出版文學充滿的作品為中心德目
它的主要內涵是在出版一些以"閱讀"為主體的作品
因為顧及不同層級讀者的需求  它的版品的文學氣息並不是那麼濃厚
也就是  它的句法不會那麼難  時態不會那麼複雜  用字不會希奇古怪 
只要有一些文法基礎  基本上閱讀都不會是一件太困難的事情

即使如此  仍可以在他的版品中找到一些很清新的作品

好比說  這一本

其實這本繪本的故事很簡單  一隻蝌蚪和一隻魚是莫逆
可是有一天  蝌蚪長出了後腳   於是蝌蚪不再是一條魚  而成為一個兩棲類
兩棲類可以到陸地上四處逛   但是魚不行
於是變成青蛙的蝌蚪會帶給魚兒一些陸地上的見聞
像青蛙看見了鳥  看見了牛  看見了人

有趣的地方是  當青蛙描繪這些見聞給魚的時候
魚對這些東西的想像  是建立在"魚"上的
好比說  青蛙說到牛  他說
Cows, they have four legs, horns, eat grass, and carry pink bags of milk.
於是魚心中描繪出的牛的模樣是一隻長了四隻腳  兩隻角  身上有斑點  腹部有乳袋  嘴上嚼著青草的 ~~~~~~ 魚

這樣的圖像是有趣的  這樣的有趣叫做"誤解"
也就是  不論你以為自己陳述的有多清楚  在別人心中所呈現的圖像卻有可能是充滿誤解的模糊
我們常以為語言和文字是多麼準確的表達 
然而當我們真正去探討這些符碼所欲傳達  以及傳達到的東西之後
你會發現  這之中有多大的誤差
不管闡述者闡述的多麼用力  讀者永遠是用自己的經驗來解讀

一本可以淺顯  可以深沉的繪本 ..............

Leo Lionni的著作
從左圖上一定可以看到很多很眼熟的有名作品

這位作者的簡介如下  有興趣可以看一看
www.posterpage.ch/mem/lionni/lionni.htm

比較有趣的是  在他的簡介中看到這樣的字樣 " philosophical children's books"  也就是說  這個人的作品不宜以等閑的繪本識之  或者可以在其中找到一些可以討論的命題








Leo Lionni
1910.05.05 Amsterdam (NL) - 1999.10.11 Rome (I)

Obituary from DeadPool.org

10/17/99 - ROME -- Artist Leo Lionni, who devoted his versatile talents to everything from philosophical children's books to high-profile ad campaigns, died Oct. 11. He was 89. Lionni was born in the Netherlands on May 5, 1910, and immigrated to the United States 10 years later, showing an early enthusiasm for drawing.

In 1925, he moved to Genoa, Italy, where his abstract paintings won him an invitation to exhibit with the then-cutting-edge Futurists. He worked on his first graphic design projects in Milan.

Mussolini's Fascist racial laws turned Lionni away from Italy and toward the United States in 1933, when he wove his artistic and business talents into a successful career in advertising.

As art director of N.W. Ayer in Philadelphia, Lionni designed ad campaigns for clients including Ford and General Electric, employing respected contemporary artists such as Fernand Leger and Willem De Kooning as illustrators.

In the 1950s, he became art director for Fortune magazine and edited catalogs for New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum.

In 1959, Lionni published his first children's book, ``Little Blue and Little Yellow.'' The idea -- the book's protagonists are a blue dot and a yellow dot whose adventures blend them together into Little Green -- sprung from a story he once improvised for his grandchildren.

Lionni went on to write and illustrate another 30 children's books, which have been published in 11 languages.