What If One Day...

如果有一天，所有的鳥都消失了，世界會變得如何呢?早晨可能會變得安靜許多? 蟲蟲們可以不用擔心被吃掉? 那如果世界上所有的蟲蟲都消失呢? 如果世界不再分成白天及夜晚呢?

在「如果有一天」這本作品中，讀者們將跟著作者一起探討各種未來可能發生的問題及猜測產生的後果。每一種生物或東西看似對這個世界都是缺一不可的，但若我們再不懂得珍惜及保護這些重要的東西，或許未來，我們可能會住在一個沒有動物、植物，水源有限的世界!

2023年紐約時代評比最適合兒童閱讀的書籍。得獎作家Bruce Handy以各種不同的問題來激發孩子的想像進而思考，搭配Ashleigh Corrin各種美麗又生動的插圖，是一本非常發人深省的作品。

A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2023! An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! A Bookstagang Best of 2023 Winner: Best Illustration! This thought-provoking,  playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin plays with the idea of how life would be if certain of the things we love most were no longer here.

What if one day, all the birds flew away? Mornings would be quieter. Skies would be plainer. Worms could relax. What if there were no more bugs? What if there ceased to be day and night? By asking how our world would change if it lacked birds, water, or people, and how we would feel about that, this playful text from Bruce Handy (The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth), accompanied by joyful art from Ashleigh Corrin (Layla's Happiness), invites readers to celebrate the beauty and wonder of existence, and all that makes our world what it is. So often, our gaze is on the future, on that better world to come, but what if the world as it is—with light and water, salt, earth, and animals, plants and insects, air and stars and French fries—is sufficient, and it is only us who have not known how to cherish it, or to love it all well enough? This book reminds us that all we need is here, if only we attend!