Twenty Questions

 
　　不是所有的問題都有答案，有些問題有不只一個答案，有的甚至有無盡的答案，彷彿可以延伸到世界的盡頭。
 
　　童書界兩大明星—— 曾獲愛倫坡文學獎最佳童書的暢銷作者麥克．巴奈特（Mac Barnett）和《市場街最後一站》凱迪克大獎繪者克里斯汀．羅賓遜（Christian Robinson）聯手解放想像力，為小讀者準備了20個有趣又深刻的問題。開場的問題「在這幅畫裡，你能看到多少動物？」看似簡單而平凡，但翻開下一頁，隨即有個巧妙的轉折，畫面上出現一隻老虎隱身在樹叢間：「在這一頁裡，有多少隻你看不到的動物正在躲著老虎？」
 
　　作者以幽默感貫穿全書，每個問題各自獨立，透過生動鮮明的圖像對讀者提出一個又一個問題，有些問題讓我們發笑，有些問題則挑戰我們的想法。這些問題好玩且互動性十足，邀請孩子自由運用想像力和思考力，一起跟著探索和遊戲，激發我們對問題的想像與討論，也讓孩子能隨著書本的一個個問題，盡情發揮創造力。

　　Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson tap deep into childhood curiosity with a mind-tickling ode to the open-ended.

　　Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead – to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to vivid life by, Caldecott Honor Artist, Christian Robinson’s bright and whimsical illustrations, Twenty Questions is a charming invitation to speculate without limits and know no bounds.

　　Mac Barnett is a New York Times-bestselling author whose books for children have sold more than one million copies in the United States and have been translated into over 30 languages. His picture books include two Caldecott-Honor-winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, which also won the E.B White Read-Aloud Award, and Extra Yarn, which won both the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. Leo: A Ghost Story, illustrated by Christian Robinson, and The Skunk, illustrated by Patrick McDonnell, were named two of the Ten Best Illustrated Books of 2015 by The New York Times. Mac's novels include the Brixton Brothers series of mystery novels The Terrible Two series. He lives in Oakland, California.

　　Christian Robinson is a 2016 Caldecott Honoree and also received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (Putnam, 2015); de la Peña himself took home the 2016 Newbery Medal, awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children for the "most distinguished book for children."

　　Leo: A Ghost Story, illustrated by Robinson and written by Mac Barnett (Chronicle, 2015), was named a 2015 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year. His Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, written by Patricia Hruby Powell (Chronicle, 2014) received numerous awards and accolades including a Sibert Informational Book Award Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award Illustration Honor from the American Library Association; a Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor; a Parents Choice Gold Medal for Poetry 2014; and a place on the Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Children's Books of the Year List. Robinson, based in San Francisco, is also an animator and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios.