Once Upon a Time There Was and Will Be So Much More

距今幾億年前，陸地板塊開始生成。幾百萬年前時，恐龍成為了地球的霸主。幾千年前，世界最著名的建築，金字塔開始被建造。幾十年前開始，陸地景觀開始變得越來越特別。一個月前，仍然是夏天。一分鐘前，燈是關掉的。那麼！下禮拜呢，明年我的生日會發生什麼事呢？等我長大後會發現什麼呢？未來又有什麼會令人讚嘆呢？

這是一本充滿著各種奇特問題的繪本，作者Johanna Schaible用各種漂亮的拼貼畫技巧來還原各種從古代到現在的名場面，隨著每翻一次頁，圖片將會變得越來越小，而代表著過去的邊界則會變大，直到我們抵達現在。從現在到未來，圖片又會慢慢越來越大，並充滿了各種對未來的想像。

題材新穎的一本書，作品從過去到未來，在各個時間點穿梭，並在其中發現了各種問題，非常適合好奇寶寶的一個作品！

Take a journey from the distant past into a future to be imagined with this gorgeous debut picture book whose gradated pages reflect the passage of time.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, land took shape. Millions of years ago, dinosaurs lived on Earth. Thousands of years ago, people built towering pyramids. Ten years ago, the landscape looked different. A month ago, it was still summer. A minute ago, the light was turned off. Now! Make a wish! What will you be doing in a week? How will you celebrate your birthday next year? What will you discover when you are older? What will hold you in awe forever? Moving inexorably from an age primeval into a future filled with questions, Johanna Schaible brings her beautiful collage artwork to an exploration of time that melds a conceptual vision with a physical one. With each page turn, the pages gradually become smaller – showing more and more borders from the past – until they reach the present moment, then grow larger again as time expands into a future full of possibilities.