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Off Topic => General Interest => Topic started by: Hooman on July 13, 2007, 05:07:56 PM

Title: Daley B
Post by: Hooman on July 13, 2007, 05:07:56 PM

Well, since some people might be curious, here's where the rabbit comes from.

The rabbit is Daley B, who is the main character from a childrens book *checks copyright notice* ... by Jon Blake, and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.


I found it while at the library looking for music CDs. It just happens that a shelf full of old books which were for sale was right behind the music shelves. Anyways, I just thought the cover art was super cute, and I noticed it used traditional Chinese charcters (the book was translated from an original in English, according to what I found with google), and I've been meaning to become a little more familiar with traditional charcters. Plus the book was super cheap, so I figured why not buy it. (It was about 1$, maybe less).


Here's the cover:
(http://www.hooman.outpostuniverse.net/images/DaleyB/DaleyB_01.jpg)
The title basically means "I don't know who I am".


Here's the first page giving the basic premise of the story:
(http://www.hooman.outpostuniverse.net/images/DaleyB/DaleyB_03.jpg)
It says "Daley B didn't know what animal he was".


Hence the whole confused rabbit thing. It goes on with him questioning all sorts of things, like what animal he is, where does he live, what does he eat, etc. Hence where the food pictures were from.

Title: Daley B
Post by: Leviathan on July 14, 2007, 04:59:42 AM

coolies :)

Title: Daley B
Post by: Eddy-B on July 14, 2007, 05:37:25 AM

Sounds like someone needs to kick you out of kindergarden in back into the university :P

Title: Daley B
Post by: Hooman on July 14, 2007, 03:16:45 PM

Lol. Forget it, I love that book.  :D

I'm also rather fond of the Little Panda series, but I don't own any of those.  :(



One of the cool things about the Daley B book is the phonetic symbols it uses. (Why isn't phonetic spelt the way it sounds?) I hear the system is used in Taiwan, but I certainly don't know how to read it. I can kind of make sense of it after the fact though. (They're the little symbols stacked up after each charcter).
 

Title: Daley B
Post by: Sirbomber on July 14, 2007, 05:03:02 PM

Does the little guy ever find out who he is?

Title: Daley B
Post by: Hooman on July 14, 2007, 10:55:16 PM

Yes, of course. All kids books have happy endings.  :P

He finds out on the last page like you'd expect.

Title: Daley B
Post by: Savant 231-A on July 15, 2007, 02:46:22 AM

Hmm.. Where from does Leviathans avatar comes from? :P
 

Title: Daley B
Post by: Freeza-CII on July 16, 2007, 03:22:48 AM

its Domo Kun i beleive

Title: Daley B
Post by: zhukant on July 16, 2007, 12:45:46 PM

Lev's Avatar? I thought that was the monster chasing after the kitten in the commercial about how it's bad to ****e or something. Anyway, Thanks for sharing, Hooman! That's a really cool book =D