[英文原版]OliverTwist ISBN9780553211023 Published3 June2005 by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub Format Paperback Author(s)By Dickens,Charles SeriesBantamClassics This fiercely comic tale standsin marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers,Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is thesaga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den,where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: theincorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and theterrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knaverythreatens to send them all to the ghostly gallows. Yet at the heartof this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leadshim at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of Oliver Twistfirmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,according to Edgar Johnson, a clarion peal announcing to the worldthat in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused ofthe world had a champion.
ScienceSolvesIt!系列(《科学全知道》)目前共34册,每册讲述一个有趣的故事,故事里的孩子用一系列科学方法解决日常生活中的问题。涉及科学主题包括动物迁徙、洞穴探秘、皮肤奥秘、太空知识、物理原理等,丰富多彩。 故事没有直接告诉孩子科学是什么、科学在哪里,而是让孩子通过阅读自己去发现,引导孩子练就一双发现科学的眼睛,培养对科学的好奇心和求知欲。 穿插在故事中的知识也以巧妙的形式呈现,大大拓展了孩子的视野。 另外,每个故事后的 像科学家一样思考 栏目指导孩子动手操作,掌握多种探索科学的技巧,使用从故事中学到的科学方法。 本册Whoa!UFO!(《寻找飞碟》)讲的是:嗖!一个不明飞行物滑过夜空。这真的是天外来客吗?Billy和Kara一定得亲自去找找这个飞碟,一探究竟!