孤独的木匠爷爷这晚亲手制作了一个木偶男孩——皮诺曹。可能上天眷顾爷爷,午夜,蓝仙女显灵了,她让这个木偶男孩具有了意识,能像其他男孩那样跑跑跳跳了。获得了生命的皮诺曹兴奋不已,很快和屋子里的小动物交上了朋友。早上爷爷起来见到皮诺曹惊讶不已,他十分感激上天赐给他的礼物。然而,皮诺曹很快就发现了自己和其他男孩子还是不一样,他没有肉体,不会疼痛,只有冰冷的木制躯体。他开始不满足于现状,梦想着找到蓝仙女让她将自己彻底变为一个真正的男孩子。于是,他踏上了旅程。。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal.
Part 1: Ruling by the Book
Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum.
Part 2: What a King Should Know
Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia.
Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power
The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance.
(转自mvgroup论坛)。When Lolly's Aunt Gert gives her four magical lemon drops, she gets to experience what her life would have been like if she had made different choices and lived those unfulfilled dreams.。