ね、ぼくのともだちになって! (偕成社・ボードブック) [単行本]

   ネズミ、イヌ、クモ、その他の小動物が登場する絵本が、5冊の頑丈なボートブック版になって再登場した。『Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint』では「白い紙の上の3匹のネズミ」がいきいきとはしゃぎまわり、『Walsh's Mouse Count』（1~3才向け）では似たような集団が、夕飯にされそうになるところをあやうく逃れる。またあるネズミは動物王国で友情を探し、『Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend?（ね、ぼくの友だちになって）』（2~6才向け）、思いがけない友だちを見つける。エンボス加工されたクモの巣が、おなじみのコラージュに触れる楽しみを与えたカールの2作目『The Very Busy Spider』（2才以上）では、勤勉さが報われることが謳われている。最後に、イヌが出てくるのが『Carl Goes to Day Care 』（1~3才向け）だ。アレクサンドラ・デイがかわいがるカールが、よちよち歩きの子どもたちの世話をする。
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"Do you want to be my friend?" asks a little mouse of a horse, a peacock, an alligator and others in this classic and charming story. Only when he meets another little mouse, is the answer unequivocally, "Yes!""Each page of this ingenious, all but wordless picture book affords surprise, suspense, and repeated pleasure for the viewer." Booklist --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

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ね、ぼくの友だちになって! 小さなネズミが動物たちのしっぽに向かって次々に語りかけます。馬、ライオン、かば…。生き生きとした動物の絵、物語を想像させる楽しさ。おなじみの本が頑丈で小型のボードブックに。再刊。

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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Do you want to be my friend? asks the little mouse, and hopefully follows a tail, finding at the end of it a rather unfriendly horse. But there's another tail, and another, and a strange, long, green one, too, that follows the mouse on his quest for a friend.

Each page of this ingenious picture book contains a surprise. Its only text is on the first page, but the exciting pursuit of a friend for the little mouse lends itself to improvisation by both the reader and the young child -- another brilliant idea from Eric Carle, the creator of The Secret Birthday Message and The Mixed-Up Chameleon.

Notable Children's Books of 1971 (ALA)
Children's Books of 1971 (Library of Congress)
Honor Book, Book World Spring Book Festival 1971

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Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children. He was born in New York, but spent his early life in Germany. He returned to the States in his early twenties and worked as a graphic designer for the New York Times. He went on to be the art director of an advertising agency before he began writing and illustrating children's books. Eric lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Barbara. The Carles opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。