水孩子-英文版 本書特色

《水孩子》為英國十九世紀著名作家查爾斯·金斯利的一部兒童文學經典名著，亦為其兒童文學創作的代表作?！端⒆印窌袕念^到尾充滿著春風般輕快的情調。作者始終感覺在為自己的孩子寫書，語調輕松而幽默，讀來親切。另外，由于金斯利平時愛好自然，同時也是個博物學家，所以《水孩子》中關于自然界的描寫都極其真實而生動。可以說，《水孩子》這是一本根據19世紀中葉的科學成就寫成的童話。《水孩子》中有不少諷喻和勸誡的成分，但那些勸誡寓于故事中，幽默風趣，寄托了作者對所有孩子的希望。 《水孩子》為英文原版，同時提供配套朗讀免費下載，掃描圖書封底二維碼即可直接進入收聽頁面。讓讀者在閱讀精彩故事的同時，亦能提升英文閱讀水平。 the water-babies is a novel published in 1863 by english author and reverend charles kingsley. this novel is his most famous work and it is a children’s fable, a moral story and a response to charles darwin’s theory of evolution. the book is also a satire of victorian england and the issues of child labour and poverty at that time. the water-babies is the story of tom the chimney sweep who falls underwater and becomes a water baby. tom has many adventures and meets other water babies while he undergoes a moral evolution and, eventually, travels to the end of the world. the water-babies is a classic of british children’s literature, and it influenced legal reform to limit child labour in england throughout the 1860s and 1870s. it has been said that the book influenced lewis carroll’s writing of alice’s adventures in wonderland, which was published two years after the water-babies . the book’s popularity has endured and it has been adapted into a musical, a play, a radio series on bbc and an animated film. the novel remains a classic tale of moral redemption that teaches children across the world the golden rule: to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.