【附QR code音檔】Poles Apart!

★由英國 Nosy Crow 出版社所出版的平裝繪本，皆附有免費故事音檔，掃描書中的 QR Code 即可聆聽
 
　　企鵝住在南極，北極熊住在北極，這是大家都知道的事。可是如果有一天，企鵝意外迷路，來到地球另一端了怎麼辦？
 
　　企鵝家族開心出發去野餐，可是卻一直搞錯方向，最後他們發現自己在一個陌生的地方，眼前是一隻巨大雪白的不知名動物……企鵝跟北極熊疑惑地打量對方，然後彼此自我介紹。北極熊熱心地跟企鵝說：「別把這當成一場錯誤，這可是一趟冒險的開始。或許我可以幫你們找到回家的路，我常常夢想當第一隻去南極的北極熊。」北極熊和企鵝一家一起踏上冒險，從北半球一路往南，拜訪不同國家，穿越陸地和海洋……
 
　　可愛有趣的故事，讓分別居住於地球遙遠兩端的動物意外相逢，不只展開一趟迷人的冒險，更開啟一段特別的溫暖友情！

        Everybody knows that penguins belong at the South Pole and polar bears live at the North Pole - but what would happen if, one day, a family of picnicking penguins accidentally got lost? When the hapless Pilchard-Brown family find themselves at completely the wrong pole, they need Mr White, the friendly polar bear, to guide them all the way home. . .
 
 
        "A funny and charming tale about a family of lost penguins who need the guidance of a friendly polar bear to find their way home." - Huffington Post
 

        Jeanne Willis (Author) Jeanne Willis wrote her first book when she was five - a slim volume about cats written in pencil and stitched together with a painfully blunt needle so that it looked like a 'real' book. After that, there was no turning back. Having been fired from her Saturday job - selling cowboy boots on the Kings Road - for chewing gum, and after a brief career as a reptile vet's assistant, she worked as a copywriter and had her first picture book published at the age of 21 (which she wrote whilst pretending to be busy creating adverts for cognac). She has since written over 300 books and has won several awards, which are arranged in the attic where she works, along with her collection of caterpillars, pink-toed tarantula skins and live locusts. Jeanne has a keen interest in Natural History and has lost count of the number of species featured in her books, including everything from slugs to sloths. She is currently into corvids - especially Nosy Crows.
 
        Jarvis (Illustrator) Jarvis is the illustrator of Poles Apart and I'm In Charge. He did lots of different jobs before creating his first children's book, including work as a bingo caller, a bouncy-castle painter, a record-sleeve designer and an animation director. He's always doodled characters, and thinks that everything he's done in the past has helped make him a better children's picture book illustrator and writer...Maybe not the bingo calling... Jarvis wants the books he creates to be very personal, and particularly loves the nature of children's books, what they can do and how they can be kept and loved as little treasures.