Do You Want to Be My Friend? (World of Eric Carle) - Hardcover

Carle, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 069024276X ISBN 13: 9780690242768

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1981

Synopsis

"Do you want to be my friend?" asks the lonely little mouse. He follows a tail, but all he finds at its end is rather unfriendly horse. The little mouse just wants someone to play with - but he'll have to follow a lot of tails before he can find just the right companion.

About this title

Review:

"Each page of this ingenious, all but wordless picture book affords surprise, suspense, and repeated pleasure for the viewer."--"ALA Booklist

About the Author:

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 Künste 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.

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 Künste 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 069024276X
• ISBN 13: 9780690242768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Carle Eric