今天我在逛二手書店,發現一本很好玩的書
Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and Sewers: A History of the Bathroom,Atheneum Books; Library Binding edition (February 1995)
我覺得很有趣就查了一下作
者,發現作者寫了好多好好玩的書喔,跟女性有關的像是
Spies!: Women in the Civil War
Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America
Penny's books are rich with compelling visual images. She does her own picture research
and takes photographs for many of her books. Here are four images from Girls: A History of Growing
Up Female in America (from left to right): First, she drove to Carmel, New York, to
photograph the statute of Sybil Ludington, a Revolutionary War hero, by the renown
sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, (p. 55). From her archives, she included an excerpt from a travel
journal kept by fourteen-year-old Linda Hickson during her first road trip from Massachusetts to
Florida in 1956 (p. 163). The next picture is Penny at the age of 4 in 1949 dressed in a
Moravian outfit, except for the socks and shoes, (p. 159). Then there is a picture
of her sister, Cam, who grew up during the 1960s (p. 171).
Girls has 131 images.
Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories About Women Who Made a Difference
Eight True Stories About Woman Who Made a Difference.
Inspiring true stories about women who lived passionate and productive lives: Louise Boyd, bold Arcticexplorer; Mary Gibson Henry, fearless plant hunter; Juana Briones, successful entrepreneur and family head; Alice Hamilton, determined medical supersleuth; Mary McLeod Bethune, passionate educator; Katharine Wormeley, valiant superintendent on a hospital transport ship during the Civil War; Biddy Mason, resolute former slave, midwife, landowner, and church founder; and Peggy Hull, intrepid reporter. Read Adventurous Women and find—Inspiration. Empowerment. Life Lessons. Excitement.
光是書名就夠好玩了吧?
2005作者寫的了一本跟社會史有關的書Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial, 被the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) 選為21世紀好書中最好的前一百名。
Penny's books are rich with compelling visual images. She does her own picture research and takes
photographs for many of her books. Here are four images from Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial (from left to right): During one of her many cemetery excursions, she photographed the figure carved from white marble that lies flat on the grave of D. G. Haring Doremus, who drowned on August 5, 1881, at the age of eight (the cover image). Another time, she photographed a grave with Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations, (p. 10). Then on an icy, cold day, she discovered a grave marker with an attention-getting epitaph (p. 184). She photographed members of her family at the burial of the cremated remains of her great-uncle Willi Matousek in Korycany, Czech, Republic (p. 139).Corpse, Coffins, and Crypts has 130 images.
這是作者的個人部落格,上述和書有關的介紹都可以從網站中找到喔!!請去玩一下,作者的部落格做得很漂亮^_^
http://www.pennycolman.com/