Paul Meets Bernadette

　　香蕉變小船、茶壺變大象？透過新朋友看世界，日子再也不無聊！

　　金魚保羅住在透明的魚缸裡，每天不停地打轉：從左到右、從右到左，有時繞繞大圈子、有時改繞小圈子。魚缸裡的生活難道就這麼無趣嗎？有一天，小金魚柏娜黛加入了他的世界，也從此推翻了保羅一成不變的態度。

　　在柏娜黛的眼中，一束鮮花變成了一座彩色的森林；普通的茶壺，則變成一頭藍色的大象。作者Rosy Lamb以飽和的油畫色彩，創造出金魚眼中美麗的世界，和優游水中的自在快樂。

【文∕博客來外文館】

　　Visual humor sweetens an artful tale about a fish who suddenly sees everything a new way — thanks to a charismatic companion.

　　Paul is a fish who used to go around in circles. He made big circles and little circles. He circled from left to right and from right to left. He circled from top to bottom and from bottom to top. What else was there to do? Until one day Bernadette drops in and shows Paul that there is a whole world out there, right outside his bowl, with so many things to see. A banana-shaped boat! A blue elephant with a spoutlike trunk (be quiet when she’s feeding her babies)! A lovely lunetta butterfly, with tortoise-shell rims! Simple saturated paintings play off this charming ode to an active imagination — and the way that life changes when a bewitching creature opens



 
 

作者簡介

　　Rosy Lamb is a painter and sculptor. She lives in a studio with tall windows on a quiet street in Paris. Paul Meets Bernadette is her first children’s book. She painted the pictures for this book while her baby daughter slept by her side.