A Child of Books

　　《書之子》（A Child of Books）是一本看似抽象又具象的書，女孩帶著男孩悠遊於書的世界裡，在不同的環境裡走出自己的世界。看扉頁上羅列的一本本書，彷彿是一張建議閱讀書單，但絕對不是！這是一份寫成不同生命故事的書單——我們的生命是由一段段不同故事組成，有的不知道怎麼開始，有的不知如何結束；還有的被打斷，或是接成另外的故事，教人經常措手不及，只能驚呼「怎麼會這樣！」來掩飾自己的茫然。

　　這本書的文字也是圖像，作者一位用文字繪，一位用圖像繪。一開始，他們將希望的畫面以草圖勾勒出來，接著反覆修改調整。每個字出現的位置、大小和方向都經過考量，是刻意放進去的！這種將「刻意」做成「隨意」的畫面，抓住了目光，想要完全解謎可得仔細端詳……

　　——摘錄自Okapi【主題繪本控】賴嘉綾：突破極限的繪本創作者──拜訪《書之子》作者Sam Winston倫敦工作室

　　A New York Times Bestseller!

　　New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers and fine artist Sam Winston deliver a lyrical picture book inspiring readers of all ages to create, to question, to explore, and to imagine.

　　A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy and calling him away on an adventure. Through forests of fairy tales and across mountains of make-believe, the two travel together on a fantastical journey that unlocks the boy’s imagination. Now a lifetime of magic and adventure lies ahead of him . . . but who will be next? Combining elegant images by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston’s typographical landscapes shaped from excerpts of children’s classics and lullabies, A Child of Books is a stunning prose poem on the rewards of reading and sharing stories—an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that readers will want to pass on to others.

Oliver Jeffers is the author-illustrator of many books for children, including Once Upon an Alphabet, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and Lost and Found, which was a Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Medal winner. He is also the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit and its follow-up, The Day the Crayons Came Home, both written by Drew Daywalt. Oliver Jeffers lives in Brooklyn.

Sam Winston is a fine artist whose work has been featured in many special collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Tate Galleries in London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He works and lives in London.