
《梅贝尔缆车》是1997年Houghton Mifflin Harcourt出版的图书,作者是Virg来自iniaLee Burton。
- 书名 梅贝尔缆车
- 作者 VirginiaLeeBurton
- 出版社 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- 出版时间 1997年3月1日
- 页数 42 页
内容简介
Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . 来自She rangher gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . .. By 径行标recounting th360百科e actual events in San Fran力影毛多兵述器值案抓cisco's effort to keepthe city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates howthe voice of the peop乙当信生波源探le can be heard in the true spirit ofdemocracy. Virgin受与负刚往组跳银ia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle theCable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San FranciscoPublic Library to r盐e-create t设苗his edition with all the vibrant charmof 末the original, which was published in 1952.
旧金山是一座依山靠海而建的城市,市内山多路陡,许多道路直顺小互建命操立权上直下,雨天时经常发生人仰马翻的事故,而1873年缆车的发明极大地改观了这一状况,具有独特爬坡能力的缆车大受欢迎,很快得到了推广。可随着城市的发展和变化,历经百年的缆车却难逃被电车、巴士取代的命运,数量逐年减少,甚至面临被淘汰的危险。热爱缆车、心系城市的旧金山人决心用实际行动留下这洋当足唱哪动亲次负旧金山独有的"风景"……维吉满哥富写培兰尼亚李伯顿用诗一般简洁、灵动的语言,和极富设计感的优美画面,生动再现了"留住缆车"这一真实事件--人们成立"拯救缆车市标属民委员会",游行、演讲,并最终用全民投票的方式解决了缆车去留的争议。旧金山人用积极、合理的方式解决争议的过程,为"民主"一词作了最为生动的注解:空洞的口号于民主无益,民主的践行,首先来自于我们对自身、对周围的群体、对生活的小环境或大环境的认同感与责任感。旧金山人的"责任意识"令人赞叹,也让人思考,跳出政治课上的晦涩字眼,公共生活的细节才是理解民主精神的重要所在。半个多世纪后的今天,旧金山缆车仍有三条线路在运营,她早已成为城市的一大特色,吸引着世界各地的人们前往……
作者简介
Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) was the talented author andillustrator of some of the most endu波基属办晶ring books ever written forchildren. The wi演行nner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for THE LITTLEHOUSE, Burton's books includ路谁e heroes and happy 银井冲收领数该支所载易endings, li清师考庆误关采velyillus器强径建分企家待河饭落trations, and a da氢穿见入存愿赶sh of nostalgia. She lived with her twosons, Aristides and Michael, and her husband George Demetrios, thesculptor, in a section of Gloucester, Massachusetts, called FollyCove. Here she taught a class in design and from it emerged theFolly Cove designers, a group of internationally known professionalartisans. She is the author of many classic children's picturebooks, including MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL and KATY ANDTHE BIG SNOW.