這是一本簡單又溫馨的故事書,講述朋友之間如何學會理解和接受彼此的不同。故事中充滿了作者兼插畫家蘇珊娜·布魯姆的溫柔幽默,以及她標誌性的粉彩色插畫,讓人讀起來既輕鬆又愉快。
故事的主角熊,有時候喜歡安靜地自己待著,享受孤單的時光;而他的朋友狐狸,對「安靜」的理解卻完全不同,他喜歡熱鬧、喜歡大家一起玩耍。熊希望保有獨處的平靜,狐狸則想分享快樂的吵鬧。他們能找到一個讓雙方都滿意的相處方式嗎?這個故事透過小小的衝突,教孩子理解、包容朋友的不同,也讓大人回想起友情中那些甜美又真實的時刻。
Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year
This simple and endearing story about friends learning to understand each other's differences is filled with author/illustrator Suzanne Bloom's gentle humor and trademark pastel illustrations.
Sometimes Bear likes quiet time by himself. But his friend Fox has a very different idea of what "quiet" means. Can Bear's quiet aloneness and Fox's noisy togetherness ever result in a satisfying compromise?



