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When my first children's book was published
當我的第一本童書
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in 2001,
在 2001 年出版時,
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I returned to my old elementary school
我回到我的小學
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to talk to the students about being an author
和學生交流,
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and an illustrator,
談論了身為作家和插畫家的經歷。
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and when I was setting up my slide projector
當我正在準備我的投影機時,
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in the cafetorium,
就在學校餐廳大禮堂,
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I looked across the room,
我望了一下禮堂內,
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and there she was:
我看到了她,
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my old lunch lady.
我小時候的午餐阿姨。
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She was still there at the school
那時候,她仍然在學校服務。
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and she was busily preparing lunches for the day.
她當時正忙著準備著當天的午餐。
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So I approached her to say hello,
我走向她,並向她打聲招呼。
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and I said, "Hi, Jeannie! How are you?"
我對她說:「嗨,金妮!你好嗎?」
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And she looked at me, and I could tell
然後她望著我,
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that she recognized me,
我知道她大概認出我來,
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but she couldn't quite place me, and she looked at me and she said,
但她好像不太確定。
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"Stephen Krosoczka?"
然後,她看著我說:
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And I was amazed that she knew I was a Krosoczka,
「史蒂芬・古莎斯卡?」
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but Stephen is my uncle who is 20 years older than I am,
然後,我很驚訝
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and she had been his lunch lady when he was a kid.
她還記得我姓古莎斯卡。
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And she started telling me about her grandkids,
但是,史蒂芬是我叔叔,
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and that blew my mind.
他比我整整大了 20歲。
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My lunch lady had grandkids,
他還小的時候,她也是他的午餐阿姨。
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and therefore kids,
她開始告訴我她孫子們的事,
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and therefore left school at the end of the day?
這一切實在太震撼了!
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I thought she lived in the cafeteria
我的午餐阿姨竟然有孫子,
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with the serving spoons.
這表示她有兒女,也表示
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I had never thought about any of that before.
她每晚都會下班離開學校?
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Well, that chance encounter inspired my imagination,
我一直以為她住在學校餐廳和湯匙當室友,
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and I created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series,
我以前從來沒想過有這些事情。
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a series of comics about a lunch lady
所以,那一次的機緣
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who uses her fish stick nunchucks
激發了我的想像力,
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to fight off evil cyborg substitutes,
我創作了一系列漫畫小說:午餐俠女。
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a school bus monster, and mutant mathletes,
這一系列的漫畫
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and the end of every book,
是關於一位午餐阿姨,
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they get the bad guy with their hairnet,
她會用她的麥香魚雙截棍
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and they proclaim, "Justice is served!"
打擊邪惡的機器人、
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(Laughter) (Applause)
一個校車怪獸以及變種數學家。
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And it's been amazing, because the series
每本書的結局都是,
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was so welcomed into the reading lives of children,
她們會用廚娘網帽,逮捕犯人。
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and they sent me the most amazing letters
然後,她們會大聲高呼: 「正義上菜!」
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and cards and artwork.
( 笑聲和掌聲 )
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And I would notice as I would visit schools,
這一切實在太酷了!
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the lunch staff would be involved in the programming
因為一直以來這一系列,
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in a very meaningful way.
在孩子的閱讀世界裡很受歡迎。
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And coast to coast,
孩子們寄給我看過最棒的信件、
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all of the lunch ladies told me the same thing:
卡片以及畫作。
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"Thank you for making a superhero in our likeness."
然後,當我參訪學校時我會注意到
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Because the lunch lady has not been treated
餐廳員工會一同參與活動,
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very kindly in popular culture over time.
以一種很有意義的方式參與。
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But it meant the most to Jeannie.
從東岸到西岸,
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When the books were first published,
所有的午餐阿姨
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I invited her to the book launch party,
都告訴我一樣的事情。
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and in front of everyone there,
感謝你以我們的形象
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everyone she had fed over the years,
打造一個超級英雄。
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I gave her a piece of artwork and some books.
因為,午餐阿姨們在過去都沒有
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And two years after this photo was taken,
被主流社會好好對待過。
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she passed away,
但對於金妮最為特別,
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and I attended her wake,
當漫畫第一次出版時,
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and nothing could have prepared me for what I saw there,
我邀請她參加新書出版派對。
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because next to her casket was this painting,
當時在眾人的面前,
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and her husband told me it meant so much to her
所有她所服務過的人們,
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that I had acknowledged her hard work,
我送給她一幅畫作和一些書籍。
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I had validated what she did.
拍完這張照片的兩年後,
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And that inspired me to create a day
她過世了。
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where we could recreate that feeling
我參加了她的告別式。
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in cafeterias across the country:
我完全沒想到 會在告別式看到一樣東西,
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School Lunch Hero Day, a day where kids
因為,在她的棺木旁邊
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can make creative projects for their lunch staff.
放的就是這幅畫。
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And I partnered with the School Nutrition Association,
她先生告訴我,
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and did you know that a little over 30 million kids
這幅畫對她意義非凡。
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participate in school lunch programs every day.
因為我看到她的工作表現。
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That equals up to a little over five billion lunches
我肯定她所付出的一切。
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made every school year.
這件事啟發我打造一個紀念日,
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And the stories of heroism go well beyond
讓我們大家可以重溫那份感覺,
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just a kid getting a few extra chicken nuggets
就在全國各地的學校餐廳裡:
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on their lunch tray.
「校園午餐英雄日」。
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There is Ms. Brenda in California,
這一天,小朋友們會做一些創意作品
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who keeps a close eye on every student that comes through her line
送給他們的餐廳員工。
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and then reports back to the guidance counselor
我也與「校園營養協會」合作。
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if anything is amiss.
你們是否知道有超過 30 萬個兒童,
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There are the lunch ladies in Kentucky
每天參加學校的營養午餐。
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who realized that 67 percent of their students
每一年大約超過 50 億份午餐,
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relied on those meals every day,
來自全美各校。
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and they were going without food over the summer,
這些英雄故事不僅僅只是
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so they retrofitted a school bus
小朋友在午餐盤上多拿到一些雞塊。
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to create a mobile feeding unit,
有一位在加州的布蘭達女士,
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and they traveled around the neighborhoods
她會注意每一個她所服務的學生,
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feedings 500 kids a day during the summer.
然後回報給輔導員
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And kids made the most amazing projects.
學生有任何不對勁的地方。
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I knew they would.
有一群位於肯塔基州的午餐阿姨們,
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Kids made hamburger cards
她們發現 67% 的學生
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that were made out of construction paper.
每天必須依靠這一頓午餐。
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They took photos of their lunch lady's head
而這些學生在暑假時,沒東西吃。
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and plastered it onto my cartoon lunch lady
所以,她們改裝了一台校車,
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and fixed that to a milk carton
打造了一個移動供應站
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and presented them with flowers.
在周圍社區穿行,
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And they made their own comics,
在暑假時,她們一天餵養 500 個小朋友。
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starring the cartoon lunch lady
小朋友做了全世界最棒的勞作,
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alongside their actual lunch ladies.
我早就知道,他們很棒的。
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And they made thank you pizzas,
小朋友製作了漢堡卡片,
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where every kid signed a different topping
用勞作紙製作而成。
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of a construction paper pizza.
他們拍了一張張午餐阿姨的大頭照,
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For me, I was so moved by the response
接上我漫畫「午餐俠女」的身體,
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that came from the lunch ladies,
然後貼在牛奶盒上
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because one woman said to me, she said,
和花朵一起展示。
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"Before this day, I felt like I was
他們自創自己的漫畫,
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at the end of the planet at this school.
主要演員為「午餐俠女」,
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I didn't think that anyone noticed us down here."
以及他們現實生活中的午餐阿姨。
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Another woman said to me,
他們製作了「感恩比薩」,
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"You know, what I got out of this
小朋友為每一個不同的配料上簽名,
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is that what I do is important."
在一個個勞作紙做成的比薩上面。
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And of course what she does is important.
對我而言,我好感動地
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What they all do is important.
看到午餐阿姨們的反應。
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They're feeding our children every single day,
因為,有一位女士跟我說,
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and before a child can learn,
在今天以前,我總覺得
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their belly needs to be full,
自己置身於學校的邊緣角落。
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and these women and men
我不覺得會有人注意到我們。
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are working on the front lines to create
另一位女士則告訴我,
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an educated society.
你知道嗎,我透過這個活動,
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So I hope that
了解到我的工作如此重要。
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you don't wait for School Lunch Hero Day
她的工作當然很重要,
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to say thank you to your lunch staff,
她們所從事的一切如此有意義。
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and I hope that you remember
每一天,她們為我們的孩子提供食物。
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how powerful a thank you can be.
在孩子開始學習之前,
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A thank you can change a life.
他們的肚子需要填飽。
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It changes the life of the person who receives it,
而這些工作人員,
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and it changes the life of the person
就在最前線工作,
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who expresses it.
並打造一個深具教育意義的社會。
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Thank you.
因此,我希望
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(Applause)
大家不必等到校園午餐英雄日,