Five Minutes’ Peace

　　救命喔！給我安靜個5分鐘好嗎？媽媽也是有情緒的……

　　象媽媽看著一團亂的廚房，心裡只想要圖個清靜，可惜的是小象們卻不這麼想，一會兒要吹笛子給她聽、一會兒又要唸故事給她聽，接著更吵著要和她一起泡澡玩水。看來享受五分鐘的寧靜，對象媽媽而言似乎是很難達成的心願。

　　似曾相似又溫馨有趣的家庭故事。作者Jill Murphy筆下的媽媽平凡又真實，她會對孩子的吵鬧感到生氣，想要獨自享受片刻的寧靜；期待一年一度和爸爸的獨處時間、生病了也想要躺在床上休息；雖然禁止家人吃不健康的食物，但是自己卻忍不住誘惑…她就是這麼的自然直率，就像大家的媽媽一樣。【文∕博客來外文館】

　　There's never a dull moment with the Large family! One morning Mrs Large, needing some peace and quiet away from her boisterous children, decides to take refuge in the bathroom. She fills herself a foamy bubble-bath and takes in a tray of her favourite breakfast ... but finds her peace is to be very short-lived!

作者簡介

　　Jill Murphy is one of this country's best-known author/illustrators. She wrote and illustrated her first book, the bestselling The Worst Witch, while still only eighteen. She won the Smarties Prize for The Last Noo-noo in 1995. She lives in Bodmin, Cornwall.