*The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick*'A delicate, haunting story' The Washington Post'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . .tender, touching and true.' The Times'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
Omar and his brother Hassan, two Somali boys, have spent a long time in the Dadaab refugee camp. Separated from their mother, they are looked after by a friendly stranger. Life in the camp isn't alway
On an extraordinary journey to the sea, a tiger boards the train, along with a jungle of other animals - all without dad even looking up from his phone! From debut author, Mariesa Dulak, and award-winner Rebecca Cobb, illustrator of The Everywhere Bear."You'll never guess what happenedOn our trip down to the sea . . .A Tiger in a top hatCame and sat right next to me."Off to the seaside we go on a rather extraordinary train journey. A boy and his dad board the train and so does...a tiger? And a family of hippos, and a band of crocs, and a mum with her piglets, and a pug in a boa - or two! But will Dad ever look up from his phone?英國繪本中的老虎,經常都會讓人聯想到《來喝下午茶的老虎》這本經典的繪本,而這些老虎也都很紳士,不是動物園中兇猛的老虎。There's a Tiger on the Train 是在 Never Tickle a Tiger (別搔老虎的癢)後另一本令人眼睛一亮的老虎繪本。小男孩一家搭乘火車要前往海邊,戴著大禮帽的老虎也是乘客之一,他坐在小男孩旁邊,以老虎的方式跟小男孩說「早安」,然後專注地讀著他從帽子裡拿出來的漫畫。小男孩的爸爸一直在滑手機,沒有發現漫畫後面的是一隻老虎。然後鱷魚跟和河馬也上車了,大家都要去海邊玩。小男孩的爸爸還是專心的看著他的手機.....這是一本圖畫比文字更有趣的繪本,非常適合親子共讀,大人自己讀也很有意思。插畫家Rebecca Cobb是很受歡迎的插畫家,作品向來溫暖又有童心。本書作者Maries