An enlightening picture book for popularizing architectural science, and a beautiful poem about the distant place
Through exquisite paper sculpture art works, we will lead everyone to see a different world.
We're going to go inside houses around the world and discover the fascinating ways people have lived in them, past and present. Also, you'll learn why locals build their houses in a particular way.
The book introduces 16 special houses in the world! Each house has its own characteristics, with informative introductions about the type, material, location and history of the house. Everyone lives in the house! Houses are a very familiar theme to children! This book describes the scenes and experiences of imagining living in different houses from a child's perspective. It not only shows the house itself, but also shows the life living in the house. There are shepherd's huts living on the snowy mountains, Fujian earth buildings, stilt buildings built in the water, and houses built by the river in Venice.
Giles Laroche
The illustrations produced by Laroche are very delicate low-relief cut-paper collages. Each illustration includes many steps such as drawing, cutting, coloring and gluing.
He lives in Salem, Massachusetts, and his studio is in a farmhouse in New Hampshire. If he's not at home or in his studio, he's traveling - he likes to take his sketches with him. This trip. He also enjoyed making collages with the kids at school, and it was these students who gave him the idea for the book
透過精緻的紙雕藝術作品,帶領大家看見不一樣的世界。
.如果你住在這裡,你可以和家人帶著圓頂帳篷搬家……
.如果你住在這裡,可以從臥室的窗戶看到日出,感覺房子在旋轉。
傍晚時,從同一扇窗戶可以看見日落……
.如果你住在這裡,你必須靠著梯子爬上你家屋頂,才能從隱藏的入口回到家中……
全書介紹了世界上16種特別的房子!每棟房子都有自己的特點,附上知識介紹,關於房屋的類型、材質、位置以及歷史。每個人都住在房子裡!房子是孩子們非常熟悉的主題!本書以孩子的角度來描述想像自己居住在不同房子的景象和體驗。不只展示房子本身,也展現居住在房內的生活。有住在雪山上的牧人小屋、福建的土樓,以及蓋在水中的高腳樓、搭建在威尼斯小河邊的房子。
吳在媖/兒童文學作家
小時候到現在,我都喜歡跟自己玩一種遊戲:我常看著別人的房子想,如果我住在不同的房子裡,生活會是怎麼樣?這本書把世界各地的房子做了內部介紹跟導覽,讓我可以盡情想像,啊!好有趣呀!
星級書評
引自《書單》雜誌(Booklist)
★「拉契的紙雕是一場視覺饗宴--他以不同尋常的視角呈現了迷人的建築物。
引自《出版者周刊》(Publishers Weekly)
★「拉契的藝術作品好到不可思議……既表現如同建築師般的精確,也是視覺的絕佳享受……每一頁都自成一個世界。」
引自《柯克斯書評》(Kirkus Reviews)
★「本書的藝術風格令人驚豔,既是在邀請讀者仔細地慢慢檢視,也是一種享受。
引自《號角圖書雜誌》(Horn Book)
★「本書最吸睛的非藝術莫屬。每一張插圖都充滿了細節,同時作者又小心翼翼地確保讀者只會感覺到乾淨、清新又純粹的快樂之情。」
★「對年輕讀者來說,這些介紹不但能讓他們一窺生活方式不同的人居住的地方,而且也能擴大和拓寬他們的世界觀。」
引自《學校圖書館學報》(School Library Journal)
★「非常美麗……本書中的藝術是真正的傑作。」
★「這個絕佳的書名既可以啟發讀者,也具有教育作用。」
作/繪者簡介
蓋爾.拉契(Giles Laroche)
蓋爾.拉契製作的插圖是非常精巧的淺浮雕剪紙拼貼畫,每一張插圖都包含了繪畫、剪紙、上色和黏貼等許多步驟。
他住在麻薩諸塞州的塞勒姆,工作室則位於新罕布夏州的一座農舍中,若他不在家裡也不在工作室,那麼他一定是在旅行--他很喜歡帶著素描本旅行。他也喜歡和學校裡的小孩一起做拼貼畫,正是這些學生給了他這本書的構想。
譯者簡介
聞翊均
臺南人,熱愛文字、動物、電影、紙本書籍。現為自由譯者,擅長文學、運動健身、科普翻譯。翻譯過《叢林奇談》、《開膛手傑克刀下的五個女人》、《狼王羅伯》、《黑色優勢》、《蘋果山丘上的貝絲》等作品。