The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in paperback
Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger - a real-life, very large tiger - pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things - like memories, and heartaches, and tigers - can’t be locked up forever.
【作者简介】
Kate DiCamillo says of THE TIGER RISING, "Rob Horton first showed up in a short story I was writing. I finished the story, but apparently Rob wasn’t finished with me. He hung around for weeks afterward, haunting the other stories I was working on. Finally, I said to him, ‘What in the world do you want?’ And he said, ‘I know where there’s a tiger.’ Like Sistine, I said one word back to him, ‘Where?’ THE TIGER RISING is how Rob Horton answered me." 凯特·迪卡米洛,生于美国宾夕法尼亚州,在佛罗里达州长大。大学时代主修英美文学,并从事成人短篇小说的创作,曾经获得1998年迈克奈特基金会的作家奖助金。她的第一本儿童小说《傻狗温迪克》刚一问世就广受好评,并夺得了2001年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖。 凯特笔下的人物都显得十分真实。她说,她并没有塑造这些人物,而是专心聆听这些人对她说什么,然后把他们说的东西转述出来。她不喜欢刻意介入或扭转故事的发展,也不特意挑选故事的题材或背景,一切都是自然而然流露出来的。
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