The team behind the Newbery Medal winner and Caldecott Honor book Last Stop on Market Street and the award-winning New York Times bestseller Carmela Full of Wishes once again delivers a poignant and timely picture book that's sure to become an instant classic.
Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister. To pass the time, he studies the faces around him and makes pictures of their lives. There's the whiskered man with the crossword puzzle; Milo imagines him playing solitaire in a cluttered apartment full of pets. There's the wedding-dressed woman with a little dog peeking out of her handbag; Milo imagines her in a grand cathedral ceremony. And then there's the boy in the suit with the bright white sneakers; Milo imagines him arriving home to a castle with a drawbridge and a butler. But when the boy in the suit gets off on the same stop as Milo--walking the same path, going to the exact same place--Milo realizes that you can't really know anyone just by looking at them.
世界也許和你想的不一樣
顛覆既定印象 發現多元可能
★ 凱迪克大獎繪本《市場街最後一站》黃金搭檔再度聯手
米羅和姊姊一起坐地鐵去探望父母,為了打發時間,米羅開始觀察周遭的乘客,想像他們的生活。這裡有一個鬍鬚男正在玩填字遊戲,米羅想像他在一個養滿了寵物的雜亂房間裡玩紙牌。那邊有一個穿著婚紗的女人,米羅想像她身處在一個盛大教堂婚禮的場景。還有那個穿著講究的男孩,米羅覺得他一定住在城堡裡,回家時還得經過吊橋,才能回到城堡,而且甚至還擁有自己的馬車與管家!
不過米羅沒想到的是,男孩與米羅在同一站下車,循著同一條路,走到了一個和他完全相同的目的地——監獄。米羅發現僅看外表,其實無法真正認識一個人……
《市場街最後一站》(Last Stop on Market Street)是第一本同時榮獲「紐伯瑞文學獎金獎」、「凱迪克銀牌獎」雙重肯定的童書,背後的黃金搭檔—作者馬特.德拉佩尼亞 (Matt de la Pena)和繪者克里斯汀.羅賓遜(Christian Robinson)於本書再度合作。克里斯汀.羅賓遜說,米羅的故事就是他的故事,「跟米羅一樣,我的父母在監獄裡,小時候我對這件事感到羞恥,直到不久之前我還羞於談論這件事,直到最近,我知道我的故事並不那麼獨特,我想讓那些與我有相同經歷的孩子知道他們並不孤單,他們的經歷很重要。」