Bored!

★美國青少年圖書館協會金獎
 

 
　　莉塔向全家發出警報，大喊「我～好～無～聊」，她無聊到快瘋了，她試著躺在臥室裡伸展身體，斜眼看鏡中的自己，或是踢踢腿、揮揮手，但時間緩慢流逝，她還是非常非常無聊。
 
　　莉塔的思緒飄向天邊，開始做起白日夢：如果全世界感到無聊的人都擠上一台巴士，然後飄浮到「無聊島」，那會怎麼樣呢？在那裡他們可以跟鯨魚交流，挖隧道尋找寶藏，跟老奶奶一起組樂隊，甚至跟著教授扭曲時空，發現新星系！這時候樓下有人呼喚莉塔下來吃飯，莉塔提出抗議，她正忙著呢！
 
　　你也有過這種好無聊、好無聊，無聊到受不了的時刻嗎？那你一定能體會莉塔的無力感。但正如所有創作者最後都會領悟到的：無聊往往是偉大靈感的最佳跳板。Bored用水彩與粉筆，以富有張力的線條，詮釋無所事事的感覺，說服讀者在無聊時刻堅持下去，誰知道平凡的時刻會帶你前往何方？由獲大獎肯定、備受好評的《花園街10號》（Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street）人氣義大利繪者費里希妲．薩拉（Felicita Sala）所創作，邀請大小讀者一起前往無聊王國，來一場超乎想像的有趣冒險，趕跑無聊！

Utter boredom leads one imaginative girl to inspiration in this clever story from much-loved creator Felicita Sala.

Rita is bored. So, so, so bored.

She’s tried stretching her body across her bedroom, side-eyeing herself in the mirror, stomping her feet and swinging her arms. Time drags on, and there she remains: catatonic with boredom.

In her tragic and weakened state, her mind drifts to the beginning of a daydream. What if all the bored people in the world gathered together and got onto a bus? What if the boredom filled them up like balloons, with tiny heads and arms sticking out? What if they floated into the sky, bobbing along until they each spied something exciting enough to make them toot the boredom out?

By the time Rita’s mother calls her for dinner, she’s very, very busy.

Anyone who’s ever been bored will find catharsis in Rita’s plight. As all creative people eventually learn, boredom can be the best launchpad to great ideas. Felicita Sala’s expressive, inviting illustrations and sly storytelling are a guaranteed antidote to the doldrums.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Felicita Sala is an author and self-taught illustrator. Her titles include If You Run Out of Words, What’s Cooking at 10 Garden Street?, What’s Cooking in Flowerville?, and Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street, which has been translated into ten languages. She is the illustrator of the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal book As Night Falls by Donna Napoli, the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book She Made a Monster by Lynn Fulton, and many others. She is a recipient of the Premio Andersen (the Andersen Prize). Raised in Perth, Australia, she lives in Rome, where she was born.