WHEN ELEPHANT MET GIRAFFE
Book ID/图书代码： 06540514B67313
English Summary/英文概要： From the instant she sees him at the water hole, Elephant is curious about Giraffe. And while Giraffe doesn’t have much to say, Elephant is more than happy to make the first move. From inviting herself to bake pretzels with Giraffe to ordering him around while playing pirates, Elephant s bold and brassy style takes some getting used to. But still waters run deep and silent Giraffe seems to have no problem making himself heard. The result is a friend for the ages.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 孩子们，与好朋友在一起相处，一定要记得相互理解，互相包容，只有这样，我们的友谊才能天长地久。通过《大象与长颈鹿》的故事，我们可以学到很多东西！(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况：“一对性格截然相反的好朋友，他们之间也会发生许多令小朋友们捧腹大笑的故事哦！”——《柯克斯书评》“设计大胆，语言简洁，色彩鲜艳以及不经意间的小幽默，这本书一定会受到无数孩子们的喜爱。”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY; November 25, 2013
This collection of three stories about a pair of friends with contrasting personalities is based on a series of online comics by newcomer Gude. He draws his elephant and giraffe
costars with heavy black lines and presents their stories in the manner of a puppet show, with a backdrop of blue sky, anonymous greenery, and the occasional cloud. The brassy
elephant wears her floaty toy to the water hole. “Can I swim, too?” she asks the giraffe, who’s already in the water, but her overture falls flat as the giraffe stares back silently.
She stalks off, hurt, but spends the night researching her mysterious acquaintance and discovers that the giraffe’s silence is a species trait. “I read somewhere you don’t make
much noise,” she says the next day. “So you don’t need to say anything.” It’s a believable, even touching mix of condescension and affection. The other two stories—a pretzel-making disaster and a game of pretend—don’t work quite as well, as the giraffe’s silent, subtle mugging is outweighed by the elephant’s bluster.
KIRKUS REVIEWS; December 15, 2013
Loquacious Elephant meets her match in taciturn Giraffe in this debut picture book. Gude’s flat, cartoonish digital art depicts Elephant heading off for a swim in the first story, “The Water Hole.” When she greets the giraffe and tries to start up a conversation with him and is met only with silence, Elephant is both baffled and offended. She walks off in a huff but then turns to a book (All About Giraffes) to try to understand why he
snubbed her. She learns that giraffes “don’t make much noise” and therefore accepts her new acquaintance’s reticent nature. This opens the door for them not only to share the water hole together, but to bake in a story called “Pretzels” and to play dress up in a story called “The Bossy Pirate.” Sly humor punctuates the stories, which inevitably center on conflict arising from the friends’ very different personalities. At first blush, the picture book reads like an early reader in some ways, with its discrete, tightly paced stories and odd-couple characters, but the vocabulary isn’t quite controlled enough to be accessible
to independent emergent readers. A humorous picture book about two new, unlikely pals.
About the Author/作者介绍： Paul Gude是美国著名的行为艺术家，漫画家兼作家。他住在华盛顿州的西雅图市。Paul Gude is a performance artist, cartoonist, and author living in Seattle, Washington.
He grew up in the small farming community of Dorsey, Illinois (population 500) but made numerous trips to neighboring St. Louis, Missouri in his youth. After attending Edwardsville Sr. High School, he studied theatre performance, creative writing, and cognitive psychology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. While there, he was a DJ for the radio station KCOU and a cartoonist for the Maneater student newspaper.
Over the next eight years a bunch of other stuff happened, which he’ll be happy to tell you about in person. He moved to Seattle, Washington in the Summer of 1998 and resides there to this day.
He currently performs at Annex Theatre’s monthly cabaret as one-half of the performance duo Gude/Laurance. He has a wonderful family.
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