校園生活:適合開學後閱讀的童書

1. EDDAA Little Valkyrie's First Day of School

1. 《埃達：一個小瓦爾基里人在學校的第一天》(Edda：A Little Valkyrie's First Day of School)

Written and illustrated by Adam Auerbach. 32 pp. Christy Ottaviano/Holt. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 7)

亞當·奧爾巴克(Adam Auerbach)編寫、繪圖。32頁。克里斯蒂·奧塔維亞諾/霍爾特出版社(Christy Ottaviano/Holt)。16.99美元。（圖畫書；4至7歲）

Edda's home is in Asgard, "a land full of magic and adventure." But Edda, the littlest Valkyrie, doesn't have quite enough to do, until her father flies her "all the way to Earth for the first day of school."

埃達的家在仙宮——“一個充滿魔力和冒險的地方”，但小瓦爾基里人埃達卻沒什麼事可做，所以她父親領她飛到“地球去上學”。

2. The contrast between home and school is hard to get used to (in one, she can ride reindeer; in the other she gazes through glass at the classroom guinea pig). In his first picture book, Auerbach mingles the two worlds unapologetically. Children are likely to appreciate the joke.

2. 她很難適應家裏和學校的不同（在仙宮裏她可以騎馴鹿；在地球上她透過玻璃觀看教室裏的天竺鼠）。在奧塔維亞諾的第一本圖畫書中，他毫不愧疚地把這兩個世界混在一起。孩子們很可能會喜歡這個玩笑。

3. MY TEACHER IS A MoNSTER! (NO, I AM NOT.)

3. 《我的老師是怪物！（不，我不是怪物）》(My Teacher Is a Monster! [No, I Am Not])

Written and illustrated by Peter Brown.40 pp. Little, Brown. $18. (Picture book; ages 4 to 7)

彼得·布朗(Peter Brown)編寫、繪圖。40頁。利特爾布朗出版社(Little, Brown)。18美元。（圖畫書；4至7歲）

Brown, who won a 2013 Caldecott Honor for "Creepy Carrots!," can really make a teacher look terrifying. Ms. Kirby is as enormous as a rhino, with pointed teeth and big clawed hands. She stomps around and yells, and Bobby, one of the boys in her class, has gotten on her bad side by throwing a paper airplane.

布朗憑藉《可怕的胡蘿蔔！》(Creepy Carrots!)獲得了2013年凱迪克好書獎。他真的能讓一個老師看起來很可怕。卡比老師(Ms. Kirby)像犀牛一樣龐大，有着突出的牙齒和巨大的爪形手。她四處跺腳、喊叫，博比(Bobby)是她班上的一個男孩，他向她投擲紙飛機，惹怒了她。

4. Later, when they meet by accident in the park, it's awkward. But "a gust of wind changed everything," and Bobby learns that appearances are not always as they seem.

4. 後來他們在公園裏偶遇，場面有點尷尬。但是“一陣狂風改變了一切”，博比發現老師的外貌並不總是那麼可怕。

5. PLANET KINDERGARTEN

5. 《星球幼兒園》(Planet Kindergarten)

By Sue strated by Shane Prigmore.32 pp. Chronicle. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 7)

休·甘茲-施密特(Sue Ganz-Schmitt)編寫。謝恩·普里格默(Shane Prigmore)繪圖。32頁。編年出版社(Chronicle)。16.99美元。（圖畫書；4至7歲）

After careful preparations and a successful blastoff, a boy finds himself in a very unfamiliar environment. "We're aliens from many galaxies on Planet Kindergarten," he reflects as he sees his very varied classmates for the first time.

在精心準備和成功發射之後，一個男孩發現自己來到一個非常不同的環境中。“我們是星球幼兒園裏來自很多星系的外星人，”他第一次看到班上各種各樣的同學時心想。

6. Prigmore, who designs for the movie industry, deploys black backgrounds, bright, popping colors and crazy layouts to give this space adventure visual excitement and madcap humor.

6. 普里格默通常爲電影業做設計，他用黑色的背景、爆炸性的鮮豔色彩以及瘋狂的版式讓這場太空冒險具有視覺衝擊力和瘋狂的幽默。

7. THE SMALLEST GIRL IN THE SMALLEST GRADE

7. 《最低年級裏最小的女孩》(The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade)

By Justin strated by Christian Robinson.32 pp. Putnam. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8)

賈斯廷·羅伯茨(Justin Roberts)編寫。克里斯蒂安·羅賓遜(Christian Robinson)繪圖。32頁。帕特南出版社(Putnam)。16.99美元。（圖畫書；4至8歲）

It makes sense that the author of the long, rhyming lines in "The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade" is a children's music performer. This is a ballad, really, about the power of one small person to fight injustice.

《最低年級裏最小的女孩》裏押韻的長段臺詞出自一位兒童音樂表演者之手，這在情理之中。這本書其實是一首敘事歌謠，講述一個反抗不公的小人物的力量。

8. Sally, whom no one ever seems to notice, is "paying super extra special attention" to the "terrible stuff" happening around her. When she decides to take action, she's not alone for long. Robinson's colored-pencil illustrations give this inspiring story an appropriately childlike style.

8. 薩莉(Sally)似乎是個沒人注意的小姑娘，她“特別關注”發生在她周圍的“可怕事情”。在她決定採取行動之後，其他人很快加入了她的行動。羅賓遜的彩色鉛筆插圖給這個很有啓發性的故事帶來了適度的天真氣息。

9. AND TWO BOYS BOOED

9. 《兩個男孩被喝倒彩了》(And Two Boys Booed)

By Judith strated by Sophie Blackall.32 pp. Margaret Ferguson/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16.99. (Lift-the-flap picture book; ages 4 to 8)

朱迪思·維奧斯特(Judith Viorst)編寫。索菲·布萊克爾(Sophie Blackall)繪圖。32頁。瑪格利特·弗格森出版社(Margaret Ferguson)/法勒，斯特勞斯&吉魯出版社(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)。16.99美元。（摺頁圖畫書；4至8歲）

Ever felt quietly confident one minute, and a shivering mess the next? In Viorst's witty story about perseverance, a little boy wakes up thinking about singing his song in the class talent show.

你有沒有曾經這一分鐘具有平靜的自信，下一分鐘顫抖着把一切弄糟？在維奧斯特的這個關於毅力的睿智故事中，一個小男孩有一天早上醒來決定在班級才藝表演中唱一首自己寫的歌。

10. Blackall, who brings quirky expression to every illustration, shows him under a lift-the-flap patchwork quilt, eyes wide with excitement. But as he waits to perform, even his words get confused: "On the talent of the morning show, I was ready to song my sing." Just doing it turns out to be the solution.

10. 布萊克爾給每幅插圖賦予古怪的表情，讓那個小男孩在摺頁拼布被子下面睜着大大的眼睛，一臉興奮。但是在等待表演時他話都說不利落了：“在早上表演的才藝，我準備好歌我的唱了。”結果證明，大膽去做就是解決方法。