Do you want to be my friend?

TITLE: Do you want to be my friend?

AUTHOR: Eric Carle

ILLUSTRATOR: Eric Carle 

DATE OF THE FIRST EDITION: 1971



This tale is about a mouse who is searching one friend. Page by page the mouse finds different types of animals and he asks each one the same question: "Do you want to be my friend?". Will the mouse find a friend at last?

I love that book for infant education. It's a book for storytelling as it has only pictures and no text. It's easy to follow the story because it's very simple and it always has the same structure. Also, we can encourage them to participate, trying to find out which animal is going to be the next because in the previous page appears the tale of the next animal. With that technique we will motivate them and we could catch their attention until the end of the story.