Do You Want to Be My Friend?
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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.
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Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. He is best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, From Head to Toe, and The Grouchy Ladybug. Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, many bestsellers, most of which he also wrote. He has two grown-up children, a son and a daughter, and divides his time between the Florida Keys and the hills of North Carolina. Mr. Carle opened the celebrated Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Northampton, MA, to feature both his work and that of other esteemed children’s book artists.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780690242768
- Publication Date
- January 1, 1971
- Publisher
- Crowell
- Original Publication Date
- January 1, 1971
- Page Count
- 40
- Word Count
- 247
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 0 - 6 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 70140643
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 85891850
- Lexile® Level
- NP340L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~J
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~2.5
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