英國兩部兒童讀物獲羅德·道爾獎
"GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" are the first words yelled by Bella, the central character in My Big Shouting Day, winner of the 2012 Roald Dahl Funny prize in the category aged six and under.
近日，《My Big Shouting Day》一書贏得了2012年羅德·道爾幽默童書獎（6歲及以下年齡段），“GET OUT OF MY ROOM!（滾出我的房間）”這是書中主人公貝拉說出的第一句話。The victory was announced Tuesday at an award ceremony in London by British literary charity Booktrust.
週二，英國文學慈善基金會主辦的頒獎典禮在倫敦舉行，頒獎典禮上公佈了這一得獎消息。One may think Bella's response reasonable upon waking up to find your jewelry being licked by a baby brother.
當一覺醒來發現還是嬰兒的弟弟正在舔你的首飾時，你可能認爲貝拉的反應是合理的。
But things do not improve from here, and nothing anyone does for Bella is right and it seems the only solution is to shout as loud as possible about the injustice of it all. The response will be familiar to parents of young children, and it draws on the experience of author Rebecca Patterson with her daughter.
但是事情並沒有因此而改善，沒有人認爲貝拉的這種反應是應該的。儘可能的大聲呼喊來表示自己的不滿似乎成了事情唯一的解決方案。本書是作者麗貝卡·卡帕森通過和女兒的親身經歷而寫的，很多家中有小孩的父母們應該對此都有共鳴。Dark Lord: The Teenage Years, a tale about a powerful netherworld lord who finds himself inhabiting the body of a chubby teenager scooped the 7 to 14 year category prize.
另外一本獲得羅德·道爾（7到14歲年齡段）幽默童書獎的讀物是《Dark Lord：The Teenage Years（黑暗魔王的青春期）》。它講述了一位來自地獄的伯爵發現自己寄居在一個肥胖兒童身體裏的故事。The book by Jamie Thomson focuses on Dirk Lloyd and his tribulations from being taken care of by social services and settled into his local school, when all he really wants to do is be appreciated as an evil force and return to his reign of terror.
這本書的創作靈感來自於作者傑米·湯姆森以前在學校和社會服務中所受的苦難，當時他真的想擁有一股邪惡的力量，恢復他的恐怖統治。Thomson used his experience writing fantasy books for role play as a springboard for the book.
湯姆森就是根據他的這些經驗寫出了這本奇幻小說。"I wanted to show what it's like to be a dark lord in more detail, and why people would want to be one," Thomson said.
“我想更細緻的表現一個黑暗魔王的形象，並且想展現出人們爲什麼希望變成他。”湯姆森說。He added that recent big name fiction like Harry Potter had bolstered interest in fantasy books.
他還增加了很多類似於大名鼎鼎的魔幻小說《哈利波特》之類的情節描寫。The book also shines a light on the bizarre way that people in the real world behave, said Michael Rosen, author and chair of the judges. "This is a wonderfully absurd take on beings from another planet or another world and like all books with this theme it makes us think about how odd and crazy we are."
這本書同時就像是一束光照亮現實生活中的人們。評審之一的作家邁克爾·羅斯說到：“ 這是一部精彩的荒誕派作品，向讀者呈現了另外一個星球或者是另外一個世界。如同所有的書籍都有一個主題一樣，這本書的主題能讓我們感受到我們自身是多麼的怪異和瘋狂。”
