As Lenny''s father goes off to fight in the second world war he
gives his son a brass badge with a lion and a unicorn on it. Lenny
keeps it with him when bombs are dropped on his street and when he
has to be evacuated to a big house in the country. He misses his
parents a great deal and the other children there and at school are
spiteful in teasing him. But he finds a secret walled garden to
escape to with a stone unicorn. Here he meets the wounded soldier
Mick and learns again how hard it
內容簡介:
As Lenny''s father goes off to fight in the second world war,
he gives his son a brass badge with a lion and a unicorn on it.
Lenny keeps it with him when bombs are dropped on his street and
when he has to be evacuated to a big house in the country. He
misses his parents a great deal, and the other children there and
at school are spiteful in teasing him. But, he finds a secret
walled garden to escape to with a stone unicorn. Here, he meets the
wounded soldier, Mick and learns again how hard it is to be brave.
It is the unicorn who finally rescues him from his sadness and
loneliness and proves itself to be his guardian angel by bringing
his mother to him.
關於作者:
Shirley was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, and studied
fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing
her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.
She then embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in London,
where she still lives today. She illustrated other writers'' work,
including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier, Margaret
Mahy and notably Dorothy Edwards''s My Naughty Little Sister series.
Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her
children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom''s Day - was
published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger
and the Alfie series. Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the
Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for
Illustration twice, for Dogger in 1977 and for Ella''s Big Chance in
2003. In 2007 Dogger was voted the public''s favourite Greenaway
winner of all time. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to
Children''s Literature.