内容摘要 书名:The Summer of the Swans (Puffin Modern Classics)夏日天鹅 1971年纽伯瑞金奖 作者:Betsy Byars 出版社名称:Puffin Books 出版时间:2004 语种:英语 ISBN:9780142401149 商品尺寸:17.9 x 12.7 x 1 cm 包装:平装 ★精选国外大奖儿童文学作品,包括纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖、美国图书馆协会青少年十大好书奖等; ★题材多种多样,涉及冒险、校园、动物和励志,作者想象力丰富、文笔细腻,有质量保证; ★主题丰富,涉及成长、亲情、相互理解、自我完善、探索世界、宇宙冒险等,守护孩子的童年美好世界,传播积极能量; ★图文并茂,寓教于乐。培养孩子天马行空的想象力和艺术审美。 Sara's life has always flowed smoothly, like the gliding swans on the lake, until her little brother Charlie disappears. Then Sara is forced to see her life in a whole new way. Betsy Byars began her writing career rather late in life. "In all of my school years, . . . not one single teacher ever said to me, 'Perhaps you should consider becoming a writer,'" Byars recalls. "Anyway, I didn't want to be a writer. Writing seemed boring. You sat in a room all day by yourself and typed. If I was going to be a writer at all, I was going to be a foreign correspondent like Claudette Colbert in Arise My Love. I would wear smashing hats, wisecrack with the guys, and have a byline known round the world. My father wanted me to be a mathematician." So Byars set out to become mathematician, but when she couldn't grasp calculus in college, she turned to English. Even then, writing was not on her immediate horizon. First, she married and started a family. The writing career didn't emerge until she was 28, a mother of two children, and living in a small place she called the barracks apartment, in Urbana, Illinois. She and her husband, Ed, had moved there in 1956 so he could attend graduate school at the University of Illinois. She was bored, had no friends, and so turned to writing to fill her time. Byars started writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post, Look,and other magazines. As her family grew and her children started to read, she began to write books for young people and, fortunately for her readers, discovered that there was more to being a writer than sitting in front of a typewriter. "Making up stories and characters is so interesting that I'm never bored. Each book has been a different writing experience. It takes me about a year to write a book, but I spend another year thinking about it, polishing it, and making improvements. I always put something of myself intomy books -- something that happened to me. Once a wanderer came by my house and showed me how to brush my teeth with a cherry twig; that went in The House of Wingscopyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved. 1234567
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