JOHN BURNINGHAM’ S CHAMPAGNE
Book ID/图书代码： 03277015B81844
English Summary/英文概要： What is it about champagne? What draws us to this fizzing, clean-tasting drink that has become the symbol of luxury and excess, of victory and celebration throughout the world? Why do we seem so willing to pay vastly over the odds to drink it? Nobody really cares about the answers. Champagne has oiled the wheels of business, politics and family for centuries. We drink champagne because it perks us up and reminds us of the good things that punctuate our lives. It softens the resolve of even the toughest Puritans – like George Bernard Shaw claiming he was only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
So what are we asking you to invest in? John Burningham’s Champagne will be a thing of pure loveliness, as cheering and restorative as a glass of fizz itself. It will be an album, a scrapbook, a potted history and a celebration all rolled into one by the creator of some of our best loved books for children, also a connoisseur of the ’King of Wines’ and how it makes us feel.
John has created a beautiful book of 184 pages, combining his own matchless illustrations with photographs, clippings, menus and ephemera that help us relive a sequence of ’champagne moments’. The cast of characters includes Napoleon, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Larry Hagman, John Betjeman, Jay-Z and those amazingly long-lived matriarchs of fizz, Mesdames Clicquot, Pommery and Bollinger.
Opposite you’ll see there’s the chance to pledge for editions with bottles of interesting champagne to drink with it, limited edition prints of John’s work, the chance to share a glass in town with other subscribers and even the chance to take part in a splendid trip to Paris.
Go on, treat yourself and pledge, and help John uncork his next masterpiece....
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 香槟是什么？是什么让我们注意到这种已成为全世界内奢华，庆祝和胜利的象征的冒着气泡，口感清澈的酒？为什么我们愿意花费超出正常价格的钱来喝它呢？没有人真正关心答案。几世纪以来，香槟为商业、政治和家庭增加气氛。我们喝香槟酒，因为它让我们振奋精神，提醒我们想起强调我们生活的那些好的事情。它能软化甚至是最艰苦的清教徒的决心——比如萧伯纳声称他只是一个啤酒禁酒主义者，不是香槟的禁酒主义者。
那么我们希望你投入的是什么呢？《约翰•伯宁罕的香槟》将非常的可爱，和香槟一样令人愉快的和兴奋。这将是一本由我们最喜爱的儿童书籍的创造者所写的集相册、剪贴簿、盆栽的历史和庆典于一身的书，当然他也是“葡萄酒之王”的行家。
约翰创造了一本有184页的美丽书籍，将他自己独一无二的插图和照片、剪报，菜单和收藏品相结合，帮助我们重温一系列“香槟时间”。主要人物包括拿破仑，马克•吐温，奥斯卡•怀尔德，诺埃尔•考沃德，贝特•戴维斯，玛丽莲•梦露，拉里•哈格曼，约翰•贝杰曼，Jay-Z，以及那些惊人长寿的香槟女性：凯歌夫人，波马利夫人和鲍兰哲夫人。
相比喝香槟，你有机会用有趣的香槟来换取约翰限量版作品，有机会与其他消费者在城市分享同一瓶香槟，甚至有机会参加一个辉煌的巴黎之行。
去吧，款待自己并干杯，并帮助约翰透露他的下一部杰作…...（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：“是时候感受手中冰冷玻璃瓶的颤抖，木塞拔出的砰砰声，淡金色液体温和的流动声，第一口强烈的泡沫感，整个世界都美好的突然承诺，如果不是，那有什么错误是一直不变的。”乔安娜•拉姆利，前言
"It is time to feel the frisson of the chilled bottle in the hand, the thwonking pop of the cork, the soft swish of the pale gold liquid, the snap of the bubbles at the first sip, the sudden promise that all’s right with the world, and if it isn’t, what’s wrong can always be fixed."JOANNA LUMLEY from her Foreword
About the Author/作者介绍： 出生于1936年，在十个不同的学校就读过，包括位于萨福克郡的A. S.尼尔的夏山，那里的课程并不是强制性的。作为一个严谨的拒服兵役者，他为自己的国民兵役加入了“朋友救护单位”，之后他在格拉斯哥的贫民窟工作，在英国砍伐树木，在意大利南部建学校，在以色列做拆迁工作。他于1956年去了伦敦的中央艺术学校，然后在以色列的电影公司创建模型和木偶，直到1960年他回到英国的。那一年，他开始成为一个画家。他为伦敦交通部门创造海报，为杂志画卡通，设计圣诞卡，直到在1963年出版了他的第一本书。
他用其机智、深刻和画作精致的故事改变了儿童书籍的面目，包括：《博尔卡》，《一只没有羽毛的鹅的历险记》，《甘伯伯的郊游》，《爷爷》，《考特尼和鳄梨宝贝》等。他也制作了一系列非常独特给成人读者阅读的书籍。约翰•伯宁罕在英国（1992年）和约翰•伯宁罕在法国（1998年）经历促成了《约翰•伯宁罕的香槟酒》的诞生，一本比他创作的任何一本书都要新颖、迷人和美丽的书。和它的前辈一样，它是个人经历和感染力的产物。
Born in 1936, John attended ten different schools including A. S. Neill’s Summerhill, in Suffolk, where lessons are not compulsory. As a conscientious objector, he joined the Friends Ambulance Unit for his National Service, after which he worked restoring slums in Glasgow, chopping down trees in England, building schools in Southern Italy and doing demolition work in Israel. He went to the Central School of Art in London in 1956, then created models and puppets for a film company in Israel until his return to England in the autumn of 1960. In that year, his life as an illustrator began. He created posters for London Transport, drew cartoons for magazines and designed Christmas cards until the publication of his first book in 1963.
As well as changing the face of children’s books with his witty, poignant and exquisitely drawn stories: Borka, The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers, Mr Gumpy’s Outing, Granpa, Courtney and Avocado Baby, to name but a few. John has also produced a series of highly distinctive books for adult readers. After John Burningham’s England (1992) and John Burningham’s France (1998) comes John Burningham’s Champagne, a book that is as original, charming and beautiful as any he’s ever created. And, like its predecessors, it is born of personal experience and infectious enthusiasm.
Format:全彩四色
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