Choo-choo-choo, the train is leaving! Let's go on an adventure. Having water fights, cool splashes everywhere! Rolling in the mud, everyone's full of laughter! Do you know who I am? With fun texts and exquisite drawings, this picture book encourages children to use their brain and guess who “I” am.
The 1st Picture Book Award Winning Books
Synopsis
Book Details
- Author:Laima
- Illustrator:Laima
- Publisher:Heryin Publishing Corp.
- ISBN:986-7942-80-9
- Age Range:4-6
- Publication Date:05-2006
Judge's comment
Now Do You Know Who I Am seems like a book of numbers, yet the plot involves elements of detective genre. While reading, the reader needs to take the initiative to read the text and image as a whole. With the hints offered by the text, one has to carefully compare, judge, and choose what crossovers from fifteen richly-detailed spreads so as to answer the question from the book title. In the process of searching, one can lean the humor from pictures with well-hidden details. The color collocation is harmonious and subtle. The shapes and lines of the background, such as flower and grass, water waves, cloud shades, stone plates and stone bridges, have regular yet changing patterns and nuanced color variation. These features not only form the images but also give out an exuberant and buoyant atmosphere, which make reading a delightful visual feast.
Fiona Feng-hsin Liu (Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, National Chung Hsing University)
Winners
Laima was born in 1968 and is currently enjoying a fun life with his family in Taitung. He loves to mix his work with creativity, humor and a sense of beauty, in hopes that readers may browse through his work with fun and pleasure. In 1995, his first picture book, I've Become a Fire-Breathing Dragon!《我變成一隻噴火龍了!》, won an award from the Mandarin Daily News(《國語日報》牧笛獎). This book was highly praised, and he has since then embarked on being a professional author and illustrator of picture books.
His works have won most of the major awards for picture books in Taiwan and were bestsellers at Eslite Bookstore for three consecutive years. He has successfully sold his works to other countries worldwide, and his works have been translated into different languages, including Japanese, English, Korean and Thai.