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內容簡介
Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rangher gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . .. By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keepthe city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates howthe voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit ofdemocracy. Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle theCable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San FranciscoPublic Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charmof the original, which was published in 1952.
舊金山是一座依山靠海而建的城市，市內山多路陡，許多道路直上直下，雨天時經常發生人仰馬翻的事故，而1873年纜車的棄擔頸發明極大奔霸蒸連地改觀了這一狀況，具有獨特爬坡能力的纜車大受歡迎，很快得到了推廣。可隨著城市的發展和變化，歷經百年的纜車卻難逃被電車、巴士取代的命運，數量逐年減少，甚至面臨被淘汰的危險。熱愛纜車、心繫城市的舊金山人決心用實際行動留下這舊金山獨有的“風景”……維吉尼亞李伯頓用詩一般簡潔、靈動的語言，和極富設計感的優美畫面，生動再現了“留住纜車”這一真實事件——人們成立“拯救纜車堡遷欠戲市民委員會”，遊行、演講，並最終用全民投票的方式解決了巴甩陵纜車去留的爭議。舊金山人用積極、合理的方式解決爭議的過程，為“民主”一詞作了最為生動的註解腳符承：空洞的口號於民主無益，民主的踐行，首先來自於我們對自身、對周圍的群體、對生活的小環境或大環境的認同感與責任感。舊金山人的“責任虹乃意識”令人讚嘆，也讓人思考，跳出政治課上的晦澀字眼，公共生活的細節才是理解民主精神的重要所在。半個多世紀後的今天，舊金山纜車仍有三條線路在運營，她早已成為城市的一大特龍閥照色，吸引著世界各地的人們前往……
作者簡介
Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) was the talented author andillustrator of some of the most enduring books ever written forchildren. The winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for THE LITTLEHOUSE, Burton's books include heroes and happy endings, livelyillustrations, and a dash of nostalgia. She lived with her twosons, Aristides and Michael, and her husband George Demetrios, thesculptor, in a section of Gloucester, Massachusetts, called FollyCove. Here she taught a class in design and from it emerged theFolly Cove designers, a group of internationally known professionalartisans. She is the author of many classic children's picturebooks, including MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL and KATY ANDTHE BIG SNOW.
