书名：Kneeknock Rise 尼瑙克山探险
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数760L
作者：Natalie Babbitt
出版社名称：Square Fish
出版时间：2007
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780312370091
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包装：平装
页数：144（以实物为准）

Kneeknock Rise《尼瑙克山探险》是1971年纽伯瑞奖银奖作品。

这个故事具有民间传说的韵味，深邃而迷人，它用人们笃信的怪兽之吼之谜讲述了人们对于信仰的需要。有些人信奉迷信，有些人信仰科学。脚背村的大多数村民对于尼瑙克山怪兽之吼深信不疑，并且感到敬畏；但是，奥特上山发现了怪兽之吼的秘密。伊甘得知真相后，试图向村民揭示尼瑙克山怪兽之吼的真相，但没有人相信他。在村民的内心里，真正的事实好像还不如人们享受"自得其乐"的生活来得重要。伊甘也领悟到，生活是一种选择，只是看你是否愿意真相。

Review
“Here's a wonderfully fluent fable about man's need to have something to believe in. . . . The strength of this tale is in Natalie Babbitt's clean, modern, very confident telling. For children, especially, this is fine writing.”―School Library Journal, Starred Review

“An enchanting tale imbued with a folk flavor.”―Booklist, Starred Review

“The allegory seems to have grown slowly and surely, so much folk feeling does it have along with its symbolism and satire. Beautifully and clearly written, the story can be read aloud with pleasure.”―The Horn Book Magazine

“Natalie Babbitt's prose is as clean as her pen line. Like The Search . . . delicious.”―Kirkus Reviews

“The theme is ageless--it poses the questions: Who is the fool? Who is the wise man? With help from her characters and from a sly cat and a very endearing old dog, Natalie Babbitt gives a brilliant answer--brilliant because her star, with each new book she writes, shines brighter in the universe of children's books.” ―Publishers Weekly

“Fantasy for the whole family.”―Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A delightful fantasy stressing man's need for a belief in the supernatural.”―The Kansas City Star

每逢下暴雨的日子，尼瑙克山顶上总会发出令人毛骨悚然的号叫声，久而久之被称为“怪物之吼”。山脚下的脚背村流传着关于怪兽的种种传说。可是，怪兽究竟有多恐怖呢？没人知道。人们只知道它在山顶待了有一千年了。还有就是所有胆敢进山的人没有一个能回来。终于有一天，怪兽的吼声再次传来的时候，伊甘向尼瑙克山进发了。在浓雾弥漫的山顶，伊甘居然见到了失踪多日的奥特，奥特叔叔告诉了他怪兽之吼叫的秘密……
From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep for the annual fair, he is entranced by the fable surrounding the misty peak of Kneeknock Rise: On stormy nights when the rain drives harsh and cold, an undiscovered creature raises its voice and moans. Nobody knows what it is―nobody has ever dared to try to find out and come back again. Before long, Egan is climbing the Rise to find an answer to the mystery.

Kneeknock Rise is a 1971 Newbery Honor Book.

娜塔利巴比特，著名儿童文学作家和插图画家，出生于美国俄亥俄州。从小喜欢阅读童话故事和神话，并且受母亲的影响热爱绘画。曾在史密斯大学学习美术。婚后她为丈夫创作的童书《第四十九位魔术师》绘制插画，受到编辑鼓励而开始自写自画并尝试写小说，一写就是四十年。1971年，小说《怪兽山》获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖，书中精美的插画全部出自娜塔莉巴比特之手。1975年出版的《不老泉》让她备受赞赏，《纽约时报》评价她“毫无疑问是我们一位有天赋和抱负的儿童文学作家。”
Artist and writer Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) is the award-winning author of the modern classic Tuck Everlasting and many other brilliantly original books for young people. As the mother of three small children, she began her career in 1966 by illustrating The Forty-Ninth Magician, written by her husband, Samuel Babbitt. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. Her first novel, TheSearch for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning. Kneeknock Rise earned Babbitt a Newbery Honor in 1971, and she went on to write―and often illustrate―many more picture books, story collections,and novels. She also illustrated the five volumes in the Small Poems series by Valerie Worth. In 2002, Tuck Everlasting was adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast.