Product Details
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (May 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0590454889
ISBN-13: 978-0590454889
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
Frank Asch,Born:
August 6, 1946
Somerville, New Jersey,
Current Home:
Middletown Springs, Vermont,
Biography
For over 30 years, Frank Asch has been writing and illustrating children's books, poetry, concept books, juvenile nonfiction, and children's novels. “People always ask me, how do you get ideas?” Asch says. “I keep giving them different answers because the true answer is, I don't know, which is another way of saying 'ideas come from the unconscious.' But there are two main ways that I, personally, have of tapping into the part of my unconscious that supplies me with kid book ideas:
Number 1: My inner child (the kid that I was that I still am), and
Number 2: Playing with kids.”
Frank Asch was born on August 6, 1946, in Somerville, NJ. He has an older brother and sister. In 1969 he graduated from Cooper Union in New York City with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts. Since then he has taught in both the United States and abroad. He has also organized art, writing, puppetry, and creative dramatics workshops for children all over the country.
In l989, Frank Asch and Vladimir Vagin (a Russian artist) published Here Comes the Cat! This was the first Russian/American collaboration on a children's book, and has since received the Russian National Book Award. Mr. Asch also joined forces with naturalist and photographer Ted Levin for a series of poetry books for children. In 1996, their first book, Sawgrass Poems, was named to the John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers. Like a Windy Day was released in fall 2002. It is the fourth (and last) book in the “element” book series that already includes The Earth and I, Water, and The Sun Is My Favorite Star.
Asch lives in Middletown Springs, Vermont, with his wife, Jan, and their faithful dog, Robi. They have one son, Devin, who was born in 1979. Devin made his picture-book debut with the father/son collaboration, Baby Duck's New Friend.
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评分这本书最让我感到惊喜的,是它在叙事结构上采取的非线性手法。它不断地在不同的时间线和不同的叙述者之间跳跃,起初让人有些措手不及,甚至需要做一些笔记来梳理脉络。但随着阅读的深入,你会逐渐明白,这种碎片化的呈现方式恰恰是为了服务于主题本身——即记忆的不可靠性与真相的复杂多面性。作者似乎在挑战读者,要求我们主动参与到意义的构建中来,而不是被动地接受一个既定的故事版本。这种叙事上的“不友好”,反而激发了我的智力参与度,每一次将散落的线索拼凑起来时的恍然大悟,都带来了极大的阅读满足感。这绝对不是为寻求轻松愉悦而准备的读物,而是为那些渴望智力挑战的读者准备的盛宴。
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