From Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan comes a poignant story about two children, a poet, and a dog and how they help one another survive loss and recapture love.

 

3 starred reviews. "Just what I needed," raves Brightly. "It's a heart-warming story of loss and love that filled me with hope for a better future and renewed my belief in good."

 

Teddy is a gifted dog. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud and the comforting clicking of a keyboard. Although Teddy understands words, Sylvan always told him there are only two kinds of people in the world who can hear Teddy speak: poets and children.

 

Then one day Teddy learns that Sylvan was right. When Teddy finds Nickel and Flora trapped in a snowstorm, he tells them that he will bring them home—and they understand him. The children are afraid of the howling wind, but not of Teddy’s words. They follow him to a cabin in the woods, where the dog used to live with Sylvan . . . only now his owner is gone.

 

As they hole up in the cabin for shelter, Teddy is flooded with memories of Sylvan. What will Teddy do when his new friends go home? Can they help one another find what they have lost?


真正重要的，從來不曾離開

美國國家人文獎章、紐伯瑞金獎《又醜又高的莎拉》作者最新力作

 

狗兒泰迪救出了兩個迷路的孩子。

暴風雪五天四夜，小屋能抵擋風雪，但要怎麼度過不安與失落？

 

狗兒泰迪從小聽詩人席爾文朗讀十四行詩長大，席爾文總是說：「小狗會說話，但只有詩人與孩子聽得見。」

 

連日的暴風雪來襲，泰迪沒有等到多日未歸的主人，卻意外救出了兩個孩子。泰迪帶孩子們回家、照顧他們，擋過大雪呼嘯的日子。

 

他們擔心暴風雪永遠不會停，也擔心媽媽或主人不要他們了。而新朋友都回家後，泰迪自己該怎麼辦？
 

——中文簡介摘自小麥田出版《不想說再見》