A depression era story that is just as timely as it is enchanting, this is a stunning picture book for the ages.
There’s just not enough…not enough money, not enough food, not enough fish for her daddy to sell at the market. Hard times have come to the forest, but Calpurnia wants to turn them back into soft times. With her little dog Buggy Horse and a tip from old Mother Albirtha, the wisest person in the forest, Calpurnia finds a secret river and uses the pink paper roses from her hair to catch enough beautiful catfish to feed the whole swamp land —with some left over for Daddy to sell. When she tries to find the river again the next day, Mother Albirtha tells her, “Child, sometimes a thing happens once, and does not ever happen anymore….You caught catfish when catfish were needed…you will not find the river again.” This story by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling and literary icon Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is about living in a time of want, yet it is overflowing with riches—stunning language, mystical happenings, wondrous, wondrous artwork. Beautiful in all ways that a book can be beautiful, this unforgettable picture book is a classic in the making.
森林深处，有一条神秘河在静静地流淌。
幽静的村落里，一场饥饿的危机席卷而来。
当森林里的河流干涸得如同家中的汤锅、爸爸空空如也的口袋时，无数条肥美的大鱼却在神秘河里欢乐地遨游，谁都没有见过那么多的鱼！奇怪的是，在地图上，你绝对找不到这条神秘河的踪迹。事实上，你得非常非常幸运才能找到这条神秘河——就像卡波娜和她的小狗拉车马那样。但即便幸运如卡波娜，也只能偶然邂逅神秘河一回。似明亮的流星划破漆黑的夜空，神秘河在人们最需要它的时候悄然出现，却很快又销声匿迹……
By John Sundeman, Illustrated By Diane Dillon, Hardcover, Simplified Chinese Character, 48 pages, 11.4"x10.4"
