假如你的鄰居是那位孤僻又神祕的詩人──艾蜜莉・狄金生，故事會怎麼展開？住在對街的小女孩，因為母親受邀彈琴，意外走進詩人的世界。她悄悄送上一份小禮物，沒想到收到回贈的，竟是詩句與創作的勇氣。本書以細膩的文字，編織出一場安靜卻深刻的相遇。畫面出自兩屆凱迪克大獎得主芭芭拉・庫尼之手，濃郁的油畫筆觸重現十九世紀美國的時光氛圍。正如《出版人週刊》評價：「這是一本如狄金生詩歌般的靜謐寶石」，細讀之下，餘韻無窮。推薦給喜愛詩意故事與經典繪本的讀者。From Michael Bedard and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney comes a story about American poet Emily Dickinson and the young girl who befriends her.What if your neighbor were the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson? And what if one day she sent a letter inviting your mother to pay her a visit? A little girl who lives across the street from the mysterious Emily gets a chance to meet the poet when her mother goes to play the piano for her. There, the girl sneaks a gift up to Emily, who listens from the landing, and in return, Emily gives the girl a precious gift of her own—the gift of poetry.“This fictionalized encounter . . . is, like a Dickinson sonnet, a quiet gem: unassuming upon first glance, it is in fact deeply lustrous, with new facets becoming ap
