DO YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND?
This classic tale of friendship tracks a small gray mouse's search for the perfect pal. He asks various animals the same question: "Do you want to be my friend?" But it's not until he meets another mouse that he is answered with a heartwarming "Yes!"
Fans of The Secret Birthday Message and The Mixed-Up Chameleon will delight in this ingenious picture book by Eric Carle. Do You Want to Be My Friend? was selected as an ALA Notable Children's Book, a Library of Congress Children's Book Pick, and a Book World Spring Book Festival Honor Book. It supports the Common Core State Standards.
ERIC CARLE
Eric Carle was 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 Künste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York.
Eric Carle 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.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 3 años.
CARLE ERIC
Eric Carle nació el 25 de junio de 1929 en Siracusa, Nueva York, y pasó parte de su infancia en Alemania, donde estudió en la Akademie der Bildenden Künste de Stuttgart. En 1952 regresó a Estados Unidos y trabajó como diseñador gráfico antes de iniciar su carrera como ilustrador y autor de libros infantiles. Su obra más famosa, La oruga glotona, publicada en 1969, ha sido traducida a más de 60 idiomas y vendió millones de ejemplares. Carle desarrolló un estilo artístico único basado en collages de papeles pintados a mano, que se convirtió en su sello distintivo. A lo largo de su vida ilustró más de 70 libros y recibió numerosos premios. Falleció el 23 de mayo de 2021 en Massachusetts a los 91 años.
