From Head to Toe Board Book [ボードブック]

ゾウは何をする？ ゾウは足を踏み鳴らすんだ。君はできる？ 『The Grouchy Ladybug』『The Mixed-Up Chameleon』など、広く愛される名作の作者から、動物の動きをまねしてみようと子どもを誘う、インタラクティブ・ストーリーが生まれた。キリンが首を曲げたり、サルが腕を振ったりするのを見るのは楽しい。でも一緒にやったらもっともっと楽しい。動物たちと同じ仕草をしようと、子どもたちは頭からつま先までくねくね、ぷるぷるさせながら、くすくす笑うだろう。ワニは体をくねらせ、ゾウは足を踏み鳴らし、ゴリラは手を打ち、キリンはかがむ。君はできるかな？ そう、「できるよ！」という自信をつけるメッセージが、この楽しさいっぱいのインタラクティブ絵本にはこめられている。おなじみのいろいろな動物に誘われて、動きを真似て遊ぶうちに、子どもたちは注意して聞く、注意を集中する、指示に従うなど、大切なスキルを身につけていく。アルファベットの本が幼児を文字や簡単な単語に教えるように、『From Head to Toe』は基本的な体の部分や動きを、子どもたちに教える。そして簡単な単語の理解から文や物語の読み書きへと上達するように、子どもたちは簡単な体の動きから始めてダンス、体操、他のスポーツや活動と、自信と喜びをもって上達していくだろう。

エリック・カールのカラフルなコラージュは、数世代にわたり、子どもたちを楽しませてきた。作品のひとつひとつが、想像力を広げさせる楽しい時間を与えている。その比類ない言葉とイラストが、新しいチャレンジを呼びかける。

いいかい？
いくよ！
動いて
頭からつま先まで。

チルドレンズブック・オブザマンス・クラブ（月例児童図書推薦会）、メインセレクション図書

What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, kids will be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep up with these animals!Alligators wiggle, elephants stop, gorillas thump, and giraffes bend. Can you do it?  I can do it! is the confidence-building message of this fun-filled interactive picture book. A variety of familiar animals invite young children to copy their antics, and as they play, they will learn such important skills as careful listening, focusing attention, and following instructions. Just as alphabet books introduce the very young child to letters and simple words, From Head to Toe introduces the basic body parts and simple body movements. And in the same way that children progress from understanding simple words to reading and writing sentences and stories, so they will progress from simple body movements to dancing, gymnastics, and other sports and activities, with confidence and pleasure.

Eric Carle's colorful collages have delighted children for more than a generation. Each book provides hours of fun while encouraging them to stretch their imaginations. His matchless words and illustrations now send out a new challenge:
Are you ready?
Here we go!
Move yourself
From Head to Toe.

A Main Selection of the Childrens Book-of-the-Month Club

As the artist's collages emulate animal movements, children will "eagerly clap, stomp, kick and wriggle their way through these pages," said PW. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, kids will be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep up with these animals!Alligators wiggle, elephants stop, gorillas thump, and giraffes bend.Can you do it?  I can do it! is the confidence-building message of this fun-filled interactive picture book. A variety of familiar animals invite young children to copy their antics, and as they play, they will learn such important skills as careful listening, focusing attention, and following instructions. Just as alphabet books introduce the very young child to letters and simple words, From Head to Toe introduces the basic body parts and simple body movements. And in the same way that children progress from understanding simple words to reading and writing sentences and stories, so they will progress from simple body movements to dancing, gymnastics, and other sports and activities, with confidence and pleasure.

Eric Carle's colorful collages have delighted children for more than a generation. Each book provides hours of fun while encouraging them to stretch their imaginations. His matchless words and illustrations now send out a new challenge:
Are you ready?
Here we go!
Move yourself
From Head to Toe.

A Main Selection of the Childrens Book-of-the-Month Club

Eric Carle is the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers.

Eric Carle was born in New York, USA. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Knste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York.

Eric Carle has received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration.

In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world.

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Eric Carle es el creador de ms de setenta libros ilustrados para nios.

Naci en Syracuse, Nueva York, pero a los seis aos de edad se traslad con sus padres a Alemania. En 1952, tras graduarse de la prestigiosa Akademie der Bildenden Knste de Stuttgart, logr cumplir su sueo de regresar a Nueva York.

Ha recibido muchos e importantes premios y distinciones, entre ellos el Laura Ingalls Wilder Award en 2003, por su aportacin global a la literatura y a la ilustracin infantil.

En 2002, cincuenta aos despus de su regreso a los Estados Unidos, se inaugur en Amherst, Massachusetts, el Museo Eric Carle de Libros Ilustrados, donde se exhibe, adems de la obra completa de Eric Carle, un buen nmero de originales de los ms destacados ilustradores de libros infantiles del mundo entero.