"Do you want to be my friend?" asks a little mouse of a horse, a peacock, an alligator, and others in this charming story, now available as a sturdy board book.
Do You Want to Be My Friend was an ALA Notable Book and an Honor Book at the Book World Spring Book Festival when first published in 1971.
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Mice, a rottweiler, an arachnid and a few other assorted critters make sturdy reappearances in five board book versions of picture books. In Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint, "three white mice on a white piece of paper" enjoy a colorful romp, while in Walsh's Mouse Count a similar gaggle narrowly escapes being served for dinner (Harcourt/Red Wagon, $6 each, 28p, ages 1-3 ISBN 0-15-200265-0; -200266-9 Sept.). Yet another mouse searches the animal kingdom for companionship-and finds an unexpected respondent-in Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend? (HarperFestival, $6.95, 32p, ages 2-6, ISBN 0-694-00709-9 Sept.). The rewards of industriousness are celebrated in a second Carle title, The Very Busy Spider; its embossed web brings a tactile dimension to his familiar collage artwork (Philomel, $9.95, 26p, ages 2-up ISBN 0-399-22919-1 Aug.). Finally, the canine in question is Alexandra Day's beloved Carl, who takes charge of a crew of toddlers in Carl Goes to Day Care (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $5.95, ages 1-3 ISBN 0-374-31145-5 Sept.).
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"Each page of this ingenious, all but wordless picture book affords surprise, suspense, and repeated pleasure for the viewer." --
--ALA Booklist作者简介
Eric Carle is a virtuoso of picture books for young children, known especially for
The Grouchy Ladybug, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, From Head to Toe, Do You Want to Be My Friend?, The Secret Birthday Message, The Mixed Up Chameleon, Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? and many others.Mr. Carle lives with his wife in Northampton, MA.
Eric Carle comenta acerca de este libro: "As como los libros sobre el abecedario presentan las letras y las palabras sencillas a los nios pequeos, De la cabeza a los pies les ensea, a travs de un rtmico juego de preguntas y respuestas, las partes bsicas del cuerpo y sencillos movirnientos corporales".
"Y de la misma manera que un niio progresa desde la comprensin de palabras sencillas hasta la lectura y la escritura de palabras ms complejas, oraciones y cuentos, ir desde ejecutar sencillos movirnientos corporales hasta bailar, hacer ejercicios, gimnstica y participar con confianza y placer en deportes y otras actividades".
