★ 吳敏蘭《繪本123，用五感玩出寶寶的英語好感度》推薦書單 – 同場加映


From beloved Caldecott winning picture book creator Leo Lionni, this charming tale of sticking together and imagination shows how powerful friendship can be.

Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps, but quickly finds that land is not what he expected. Friendship truly saves the day in this imaginative tale of a fish out of water.


小青魚和蝌蚪是一對朝夕相處的好朋友。但蝌蚪漸漸長成青蛙，他開始離開池塘去看外面的世界，而小青魚則獨自留在水塘裡。奇怪，青蛙上哪兒去了？ 有一天，青蛙回來了，而且，帶了一大籮筐新奇世界的呱呱見聞。 從此，小青魚的腦袋裡，滿滿地旋轉著那些青蛙告訴他的好玩事！有翅膀的鳥？能供應鮮奶的牛？會說話的人？ 有一天，小青魚覺得他非親眼瞧瞧外頭的世界不可！ 問題是魚能離開水底世界嗎？大膽嘗試新鮮事物，可要先衡量能力是否許可喔！

Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children’s books. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner—for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89.