★The days are always too quiet, so quiet that even the peacock doesn't want to open its tail...
Everything starts with a chicken that can walk backwards and forwards. Flannery became famous after a newspaper reporter from New York saw the chicken. But it wasn't long before people forgot about her, and she began to feel that life was a little too quiet. So, she decided to raise more birds to make her life more interesting. She used the money she saved to buy one after another of different types of birds that she could find. However, she still felt that life was a bit too quiet. Later, she suddenly thought: One peacock should be worth a thousand birds! Therefore, she bought a peacock, but she did not expect that the peacock was unwilling to open its tail at all... Flannery tried her best to make the peacock open its tail?
About the author
Ali Graham McCann
is a professional advertising copywriter who won the Emory University Louis Soder Award for creative writing. This is the first picture book she created.
★日子總是太安靜了，安靜到連孔雀都不願開屏了……
所有的事都從一隻可以倒著走和正著走的雞開始。自從一位來自紐約的新聞記者看過這隻雞之後，小女孩芙蘭納莉就出名了。不過沒多久，人們就淡忘了她，而她也開始覺得生活有點太安靜了。於是，她決定要多養些鳥來增添生活的趣味，她用自己存的錢，買了一隻又一隻她所能找到不同種類的鳥。但是，她還是覺得生活有點太安靜了。後來，她突發奇想：一隻孔雀應該抵得上一千隻鳥吧！因此，她買來了一隻孔雀，沒想到這隻孔雀一點都不願開屏……芙蘭納莉想盡辦法，到底能不能讓孔雀開屏呢﹖
＊2-6歲親子共讀／7歲以上獨立閱讀
本書特色
本書雖然是改編自美國重要女作家芙蘭納莉・歐康納的生平故事，但故事本身極具趣味性和幽默感，搭配畫者以混合媒材的方式，將插圖和檔案照片融合在一起，呈現出令人愉快的故事。
媒體好評
「喜歡稀奇古怪故事的讀者一定會愛上這個故事，鳥類和故事裡孩子的滑稽動作會引發兒童讀者的興趣。」~《柯克斯評論》
「令人愉悅的插圖為精彩的故事增添了幽默和魅力。」~《中西部書評》(Midwest Book Review)
「故事文本和插圖風格輕鬆而充滿想像力。」~《號角書》
作者簡介
亞麗・葛拉罕・麥肯
專業廣告文案，曾以創意寫作獲得艾默里大學路易梭德獎，這是她創作的第一本圖畫書。
繪者簡介
娜塔莉・尼爾森
作品經常刊登於紐約時報、紐約雜誌與華盛頓郵報。
這是作者與繪者首度合作的繪本，他們是認識很久的好朋友，都住在亞特蘭大，離當時芙蘭納莉・歐康納不遠的地方。
譯者簡介
賴嘉綾
作家、繪本職人，專職繪本讀書會與專欄寫作。