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Do You Want to Be My Friend? Mini
by
Eric Carle
From horse to crocodile to giraffe, no one wants to be the little mouse's friend, until he meets up with a friendly, familiar face--and not a moment too soon! Full color.
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
September 2nd 1988
by Philomel Books
(first published 1971)
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I found Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend? to be a very charming nearly-wordless picture book. Launched by the words of the title, the book's pictures--done in Carle's trademark collage--show a small mouse encountering increasingly larger creatures as he searches for a companion. One of the very clever devices at work is that Carle starts the tail of each successive animal on the previous page--thus creating a sense of suspense/surprise and giving children an opportunity to guess who the ...more
A little mouse wants to find a friend. The mouse travels all over asking every animal it sees whether they want to be his friend. All of the animals ignore the little mouse. Finally, the little mouse meets another mouse. They become the best of friends.
In this story, Eric Carle remains faithful to his well known art style. The pictures are done in a collage style using tissue paper and paint. Fans of his artwork will immediately be able to identify this as an Eric Carle masterpiece.
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In this story, Eric Carle remains faithful to his well known art style. The pictures are done in a collage style using tissue paper and paint. Fans of his artwork will immediately be able to identify this as an Eric Carle masterpiece.
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Eric Carle created a great picture book for kids who have a lower reading level. While the pictures and colors are bright and vivid, I feel the lack of words under develops the story. The book could have been enhanced a great deal if there was a few words on each page to describe the mouse’s reaction or thoughts about what animal he had just run into. Overall the book is creative, but I would not recommend it to any children who are learning to read.
Age 0-2
A cardboard picture book with only one page of text. A mouse is on the hunt for a friend. The parent can create the story with or for the child. The lack of text makes this book suitable for a very young child because the child can enjoy the book independently. This is a great introduction to the concepts of books.
Uses: concepts of print, prediction, creative story telling, habit of reading, and enjoyable reading time.
A cardboard picture book with only one page of text. A mouse is on the hunt for a friend. The parent can create the story with or for the child. The lack of text makes this book suitable for a very young child because the child can enjoy the book independently. This is a great introduction to the concepts of books.
Uses: concepts of print, prediction, creative story telling, habit of reading, and enjoyable reading time.
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this book was so awesome!!!!!!!!! a mouse asks all these animals if they will be his friend. They all say no. then he asks another mouse. the other mouse says yes. they go and play in a hole. it says, ;and just in time.' You see, there's a long green curly line growing in the book. On the last page, it shows a snake head. And that's when it says, 'and just in time.' Because, snakes like to eat mice. Those are 2 LUCKY mice!!!
Little mouse asks a horse, "Do you want to be my friend?" There is no response. Little mouse walks on and looks up at each animal, implying a request for friendship...still no luck. After escaping a snake, little mouse sees a female mouse and he finally receives the friendship he's been looking for.
This book is nearly wordless, with text only on the first page. Illustrations are true to Carle's style.
This book is nearly wordless, with text only on the first page. Illustrations are true to Carle's style.
A mouse is looking for a friend and tries all kinds of different animals until he finds another mouse. There is a small amount of text in the book: "Do you wan to be my friend?" and "Yes." It does not even look like the mouse is stopping to ask each animal this question, although I thought that was the premise of the book. The artwork is beautiful, but maybe could use a few more words in this case.
What a fabulous book! Other than the question at the beginning of the book where the mouse asks "Do you want to be my friend?", there are no other words in this book. This book is great for pre-readers as they learn concepts of print. The pictures take you from left to right just the same way we read and turn the pages. This book also allows the reader to make up there own story. Eric Carle is a genius!!
A little mouse desperately wants to find a friend. The mouse travels all over asking every animal it sees whether they want to be his friend. All of the animals, except one, ignore the little mouse. Finally, the little mouse meets another mouse, and they become great friends. This would be a great book for teaching children how it feels to be rejected by others, and how to remain positive.
Author and Illustrator: Eric Carle
Genre: Fiction Wordless Picture Book
Year Published: 1988
Reading Level: Ages 4-8; Emergent
Topic and Theme: Friendship, Animals
Curricular Use: Individual Reading
Social: Acceptance
Literary Elements: Personification
Text and Pictures: The illustrations are beautifully drawn of animals and work perfectly for a guessing game.
Summary: On each page, the book shows ...more
Genre: Fiction Wordless Picture Book
Year Published: 1988
Reading Level: Ages 4-8; Emergent
Topic and Theme: Friendship, Animals
Curricular Use: Individual Reading
Social: Acceptance
Literary Elements: Personification
Text and Pictures: The illustrations are beautifully drawn of animals and work perfectly for a guessing game.
Summary: On each page, the book shows ...more
A very simple book with amazing illustrations. Eric Carle is a favorite of mine. A mouse seeks a friend. All we see is the tail of the animal he asks until the page is turn, then we see the body. This would be a good introductory book to use to teach predictions.
In the end the mouse finds a friend . . . and an enemy. :)
In the end the mouse finds a friend . . . and an enemy. :)
This book only has pictures of animals that a mouse is following asking if they would like to be his friend. On each page their is a picture clue as to what will be on the next page. This book would be good for practicing predicting, asking what animal they think will come next based on the picture clue.
With Sean now reading, Harriet likes to have books on hand that she can read to herself without help. Her selected books are either ones we've read dozens of times together or picture books. Among her picture book favorites is Do You Want to Be My Friend? by Eric Carle.
In this mostly picture book, a little mouse follows a series of tails from page to page hoping to find a friend. What he mostly finds are disinterested animals.
The illustrations are typical Eric Carle paint...more
In this mostly picture book, a little mouse follows a series of tails from page to page hoping to find a friend. What he mostly finds are disinterested animals.
The illustrations are typical Eric Carle paint...more
This is a very easy read for younger grades. The story makes me sad as the little mouse searches for a friend. He does find a friend but it is another mouse. I think this is a great book to introduce community and friendship into the classroom.
This book has no words yet my kids and I love to tell the story different ways each time and have a blast doing it. Great for kids who can't read yet, but a very nessessary skill to tell what is going on in a picture.
This book had beautiful pictures in it. You describe what is going on thru the illustrations. It is a classic Eric Carle book, more pictures than words.
This may very well be the first book Mom ever bought me and it happens to be signed by Eric Carle. He even drew a cat next to his signature!
Reading this made me sad, especially when my toddler asked me why each animal wasn't talking to or playing with the mouse.
Everyone has a friend that is a perfect match for them. Mouse found that with mouse at the end of the book!
the proviso here is that you like eric carle's art, i don't otherwise his books would have an extra star
This one only has a few words, so it's up to you to make up the story when you share it.
Why are children's books so heart-breaking? Here is a story about a small mouse whose offer of friendship is rejected over and over again. Of course it all works out in the end, when he huddles underground with a new friend, together at last, both of them in terror of a snake just above their nest.
This was challenging for me to read with my limited vocabulary, but it introduces a lot of animals and the words that related to them, such as neigh, mane, and gallop. It's also a good rev...more
This was challenging for me to read with my limited vocabulary, but it introduces a lot of animals and the words that related to them, such as neigh, mane, and gallop. It's also a good rev...more
Not as good as some of his other books. A little disappointing.
Wordless read-aloud fun. Especially great for little 'readers'.
No words, just amazing illustrations. Still tells a story.
I read this to Natalie one day while at the library. It had cool pictures of animals, as is expected in Eric Carle's books. There is very little text; I think only two or three pages had words. I didn't like this one as much because it didn't have a pattern or plot really. The snake running throughout the book was cool.
I love his creative art work.
simple story, beautiful
Another classic
This book doesn't have any words (well, only a few) but it has suspense, surprise, danger and romance, what more can you want from a book-- especially a children's book. This is such a wonderful book. The illustrations are so intriguing and even though I've read it a hundred times I always get excited when I turn the page and see which animal the tail belongs to (you'd have to read it to understand). I like to make up my own words and story, which seems to change every time I read it.
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