張倩云

Apencil and an eraser—could there be a more perfect pair？

But in author and illustrator Max Amatos fun debut picture book， Perfect， an epic1 battle breaks out between a rectangular pink eraser and a bright yellow pencil. Eraser throws down the gauntlet2 on the very first page， making it clear he likes things “perfectly clean”. He basks3 amidst a spread of stark white pages， stating happily， “No pencil can mess with me.” Eraser has met his match， however， as Pencil promptly laughs at Eraser by drawing a goofy4 but spot-on caricature5. Then the chase is on.

With spare text and simple but memorable illustrations， Amato has created an imaginative tale about what can happen when opposites meet. Using a combination of photographs and hand-drawn images， he effectively anthropomorphizes6 Pencil and Eraser， making great use of Pencils cavalcade7 of marks and Erasers endless attempts at cleanup. The faces of these warriors convey a full range of emotion—especially that of indomitable8 Eraser.

In the end， Eraser finds a good way to escape Pencils endless sea of pencil marks. But when all is said and done， Eraser finally realizes he misses Pencil， and a friendship is born. Yes， these two may drive each other bananas， but Eraser concludes that a perfectly clean page without any challenge turns out to be boring and lonely.

一支鉛筆和一塊橡皮——能有比這更完美的一對嗎？

但在作者兼插畫家馬克斯·阿馬托有趣的處女作《完美》中，長方形的粉紅橡皮擦和亮黃色的鉛筆之間爆發(fā)了一場史詩般的戰(zhàn)斗。橡皮擦在第一頁就扔出了手套，明確表示他喜歡“完全干凈”的東西。他在一大堆白紙中曬太陽，高興地說：“沒有鉛筆能干擾我?！比欢斻U筆迅速地在漫畫上畫了一個傻乎乎但很顯眼的漫畫人物來嘲弄橡皮擦時，橡皮擦遇到了他的對手。接著，追捕開始了。

通過少量的文字和簡單但令人難忘的插圖，阿馬托創(chuàng)造了一個想象的故事，講述了當對立物遭遇時會發(fā)生什么。他將照片和手繪圖像結(jié)合起來，充分利用了鉛筆的大量標記和橡皮無休止的清理嘗試，有效地將鉛筆和橡皮擬人化。這兩位勇士的臉傳達了一種全方位的情感，尤其是不屈不撓的橡皮擦的情感。

最后，橡皮擦找到了一種好方法，可以避開鉛筆無盡的鉛筆痕跡。但是總而言之，橡皮擦最終意識到他想念鉛筆，友誼就此誕生了。是的，這兩個可能會把對方逼瘋，但橡皮擦的結(jié)論是，一個完全干凈的沒有任何挑戰(zhàn)的頁面，很無聊而孤獨。