《Hearts on Canvas 系列英文繪本》Dawn’s First Hue

English Description

Dawn’s First Hue follows Lena Hart, a grieving artist who arrives in a seaside village carrying three canvases, a battered easel, and paint tubes squeezed flat—shown vividly in the illustrations on pages 3–4.

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Her rented cottage stands at the cliff’s edge, facing a gray, quiet sea that mirrors her inner emptiness. For weeks, Lena paints “little things”—pebbles, her coffee cup, a crooked fence—but the colors all feel like “a pale ache.”

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This story is also a beautiful tool for learning English, offering gentle, poetic vocabulary and emotional storytelling that help readers absorb language through:
• art & color vocabulary
• emotional expressions
• nature imagery
• reflective, descriptive English
• dialogue-based learning

Lena’s healing begins when she meets Nora Greene, a lively young woman who brings warm bread and invites her to watch the dawn. Illustrations on pages 13–20 show their walk to the headland, where soft blues, hesitant grays, and the first tender pink of sunrise slowly awaken Lena’s “sleeping colors.”

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A week later, Lena meets Eli Thompson, a gentle painter whose boathouse studio is filled with canvases and jars of dried brushes (pages 30–32). Eli encourages her not to hide her pain, but to paint it, saying:
“Every color you have lived with is a color you can mix from.”

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Lena begins creating bold, honest paintings—storms threaded with pink dawns, brushstrokes that breathe, and colors that remember what hurts yet still point toward hope (pages 40–43).

With Nora’s laughter and Eli’s steady guidance, Lena learns she can hold both the ache of the past and the beauty of new beginnings. Her final gallery showcase displays dawn paintings carrying hints of yesterday’s color—one villager remarks:
“That gray makes the gold true.”

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By the final sunrise, Lena realizes that new beginnings do not erase memory—they begin with it.
A healing, lyrical story perfect for readers wanting emotional depth and a meaningful way to learn English through art and reflection.

繁體中文內容簡介（Traditional Chinese）

《Dawn’s First Hue》講述藝術家 Lena Hart 在心碎後搬到海邊小鎮重新開始的故事。插圖中可看到她帶著三幅畫布、破舊畫架與擠扁的顏料管抵達村莊的樣子（如第 3–4 頁）。

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她住在面海的懸崖小屋裡，窗外是像鏡子般灰白的海。數週以來，她畫著小物件——鵝卵石、咖啡杯、歪斜木籬笆——但畫面總帶著淡淡的痛意。

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這本書也非常適合 透過故事學英語（learning English through story），讀者能自然接觸到：
• 色彩與藝術相關字彙
• 情緒與感受的英文表達
• 大自然與景物描寫
• 輕柔、有畫面感的詩意英文句型

某天，活潑又暖心的 Nora Greene 帶著新鮮麵包出現，邀請她一起看日出。她們沿著海岸走到草坡上，天空從灰轉藍，再被一絲粉色輕輕縫進地平線，喚醒 Lena 心中沉睡的色彩（如第 13–20 頁呈現的畫面）。

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之後，Lena 也遇見溫柔的畫家 Eli Thompson。他在擺滿舊畫刷與畫布的船屋工作室裡告訴她：
「不要忘記讓你痛的事——把它畫出來。每一種你生活過的顏色，都能成為你的顏料。」

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Lena 開始創作更真實的作品：有暴風中的粉色光、有像呼吸般的筆觸、有記得過去卻仍向著希望的色彩。她最終在港邊的小畫廊展出作品，村民們看到她如何將「昨日的色」放進「今日的光」中，其中一位婦人感動地說：
「這一條灰色，讓金色更真實。」

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最終，Lena 明白：新的開始不是沒有記憶，而是帶著記憶重新出發。
一本關於療癒、藝術、自我找回與英語學習的溫柔繪本。