Pass the Butterworms

Pass the ButterwormsBy: Tim Cahill In Pass the Butterworms, Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the Mongolian death trot; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in the 36 degree water; to Irian Jaya New Guinea, where he spends a companionable evening with members of one of the last head hunting tribes. Whether observing family values among the Stone Age Dani

所以，就讓孩子跟著森林裡的可愛動物們一起實行「禮貌運動」吧！互相禮讓的貓熊會說「請」，收到禮物的老虎懂得微笑說「謝謝」，不小心搞砸事情的糊塗蛇有擔當的說「對不起」，大象從旁經過時輕聲說「抱歉，借過」，還有狐狸、犀牛、鸚鵡、猴子、獅子、灰熊⋯⋯也統統學會有禮貌的行為了呢！原本亂糟糟的森林終於變得快樂和諧。

The Weight of Blood and Arrowood

" a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal

「獸醫師這種工作，確實存在著一種魔力。一開始吸引我們的，也許單純只是喜歡動物……做了一段時間，真正反芻了每一位畢業生離開前在學校宣誓的獸醫師誓詞後，會慢慢長出使命感，轉成一股對生命、自然敬畏的心情。」──龔建嘉

But the brilliant Holmes soon reveals that there is much more to this case than first meets the eye…

本集收錄五篇高潮迭起、潛移默化的爆笑新故事：〈白米飯人炒冷飯〉、〈苦到讓你笑哈哈〉、〈榴槤哥哥愛抱抱〉、〈對手才是好幫手〉和〈夾心餅乾的難題〉，讓孩子眼到、心到、笑到不想闔上書，盡情享受獨立閱讀的樂趣；即使是不愛看書的孩子，只要打開「用點心學校」，語文能力、閱讀習慣和品格養成也能馬上鹹魚翻身三級跳！

appeared in 1950

so she ran away

But the mysterious disappearance of her world-traveling playboy brother takes precedence over all

A New Year’s feast at King Arthur’s court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight

a group of men sit outside an office

our penchant for violence