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* Caldecott Medal 수상작
* 뉴욕타임즈 Best Illustrated Book
* 미국 교사선정 100대 도서중 그림책 부문 1위로 선정된 도서
* ALA Notable Book for Children
* Booklist Editors' Choice
* Horn Book Fanfare Selection
* Reading Rainbow Review Book


영어 그림책 애호가라면 반드시 소장할 가치가 있는 "Must Have"

크리스마스 이브에 동심으로 떠나는 기차여행.

요즘 아이들은 산타할아버지의 존재를 믿지 않지만, 아직 순수한 동심을 지니고 있는 소년은 산타 할아버지를 만나기 위해 북극으로 향하는 기차에 올라탑니다. 소년이 산타 할아버지로부터 받기를 원하는 것은 바로 사슴이 끄는 썰매에 매달린 방울이지요.

온통 어둡고 깜깜한 밤이지만 기차 안은 아이들로 북적대고 산타 할아버지를 만나고 싶어하는 아이들의 마음을 담은 기차는 쉬지않고 북극을 향해 달려갑니다.

기차는 드디어 크리스마스 선물을 만드는 공장으로 가득 찬 북극에 도착하고 요정들에게 둘러 쌓인 산타 할아버지는 기차를 타고 온 아이들 중 한 명을 뽑아 첫번째 크리스마스 선물을 준다고 하지요.

그 '한 명'에 뽑힌 소년은 크리스마스 선물로 썰매의 방울을 받아 주머니에 넣지만, 돌아오는 길에 주머니에 구멍이 나서 방울이 없어진 사실을 알고는 몹시 낙담합니다.

하지만…..크리스마스 날 아침….크리스마스 트리 밑에서 조그만 상자 속에서 방울을 발견한 소년은 아름답고 신비한 방울 소리를 듣게 됩니다. 그러나 엄마 아빠는 그 신비하고 아름다운 방울 소리를 듣지 못하지요.

아마도 산타 할아버지 썰매의 방울 소리는 산타 할아버지의 존재를 믿고 크리스마스를 설레며 기다리는 동심을 지닌 어린이들에게만 들리나 봅니다.

크리스마스 트리 장식물과 리암 니슨의 목소리로 녹음된 실감나는 오디오를 무료로 다운로드할 수 있는 Access Code가 보너스로 포함되어 있습니다.

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버책입니다.






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Edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0544580141
ISBN-13: 9780544580145
책 크기: 29.7 cm x 23.5 cm



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Book Description
This beautiful hardcover edition of The Polar Express is the perfect gift for all those--of any age--who believe, come Christmas Eve, that they too will hear the sweet sound of a reindeer’s silver bell. This edition includes a keepsake ornament.

A young boy, lying awake one Christmas Eve, is welcomed aboard a magical train to the North Pole . . .

Through dark forests, over tall mountains, and across a barren desert of ice, the Polar Express makes its way to the huge city standing alone at the top of the world, where the boy will make his Christmas wish.

For millions of readers around the world, this mysterious journey to the North Pole has become a beloved Christmas classic. In this thirtieth-anniversary edition, the inimitable artistry of Chris Van Allsburg is showcased with a bold new jacket design and expanded interior layout.

The Polar Express is a Caldecott Medal winner, and reading the story together is a beloved holiday tradition held by generations of families. It has also become a favorite holiday movie and been translated into stage productions that take place across the United States during the holiday season.



School Library Journal
Given a talented and aggressive imagination, even the challenge of as cliche-worn a subject as Santa Claus can be met effectively. Van Allsburg's Polar Express is an old-fashioned steam train that takes children to the North Pole on Christmas Eve to meet the red-suited gentleman and to see him off on his annual sleigh ride. This is a personal retelling of the adult storyteller's adventures as a youngster on that train. The telling is straight, thoughtfully clean-cut and all the more mysterious for its naive directness; the message is only a bit less direct: belief keeps us young at heart. The full-page images are theatrically lit. Colors are muted, edges of forms are fuzzy, scenes are set sparsely, leaving the details to the imagination. The light comes only from windows of buildings and the train or from a moon that's never depicted. Shadows create darkling spaces and model the naturalistic figures of children, wolves, trees, old-fashioned furniture and buildings. Santa Claus and his reindeer seem like so many of the icons bought by parents to decorate yards and rooftops: static, posed with stereotypic gestures. These are scenes from a memory of long ago, a dreamy reconstruction of a symbolic experience, a pleasant remembrance rebuilt to fufill a current wish: if only you believe, you too will hear the ringing of the silver bell that Santa gave him and taste rich hot chocolate in your ride through the wolf-infested forests of reality. Van Allsburg's express train is one in which many of us wish to believe.


Newsweek
The sumptuous pastel effects-train lights seen through falling snow and a vertiginous overhead view, from Santa's sleigh, of his popular city-make this one of Van Allsburg's most treasured visions.


The New York Times
“The Polar Express is magic indeed."


Horn Book
“As always, the forms are sculptured, the perspectives as dazzling as they are audacious, the colors rich and elegant, the use of light and shadow masterly.”


About the Author
Author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg has created numerous picture books for readers of all ages. He is the recipient of two Caldecott Medals, for Jumanji and The Polar Express, and has received many other awards, including the Regina Medal for Lifetime achievement in children's literature. While he now works full time on his books, he has also been a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. After completing his first book, Chris Van Allsburg said, "I have this theory that, drawing from my imagination, I am likely to leave a lot of small details out and create a drawing that ultimately has a touch of the surreal." Each of his books, in its own unique and intriguing way, has proved this theory to be true. From retired magicians and mysterious board games to flying beds and flying boats; from nighttime train rides and missing stories to strange visitors and busy brooms the result of Chris Van Allsburg's fertile imagination and skillful drawing is many surreal adventures that can be opened and explored again and again.