书名：The Very Hungry Caterpillar 好饥饿的毛毛虫
作者：Eric Carle 艾瑞·卡尔
出版社名称：Puffin Books
出版时间：1994
语种：英文
ISBN：9780241003008
商品尺寸：17.8 x 1.7 x 13.1 cm
包装：纸板书
页数：26

The Very Hungry Caterpillar《好饥饿的毛毛虫》是一本充满了诗情与创意的图画书，为绘本大师艾瑞·卡尔的经典之作。荣获美国视觉艺术协会奖、入选纽约公共图书馆“每个人都应该知道的100种图画书”、入选美国全国教育协会“教师们推荐的100本书”等，现已被译成近50种语言，销量突破3000万册！本书为英文版，适合各位爸爸妈妈或学校老师做英语启蒙教学，也适合有一定英文基础的孩子自主阅读。
推荐理由：
1.内容有趣，色彩丰富，加上独特的“挖洞”设计，很容易吸引孩子的注意力；
2.故事简单，对白简洁，使用的英语句型结构也比较简单，孩子容易理解；
3.书中融入了星期、数字、水果与食物的英语词汇，如Sunday、Monday、one apple等，很适合做英语绘本教学；
4.廖彩杏、吴敏兰、汪培珽都推荐的英语启蒙绘本，不可错过！
Eric Carle’s classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, in board book format.
A much-loved classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has won over millions of readers with its vivid and colourful collage illustrations and its deceptively simply, hopeful story. With its die-cut pages and finger-sized holes to explore, this is a richly satisfying book for children. 

一只小毛毛虫在星期天的早上诞生了，可是它的肚子好饿好饿喔！所以它决定去找一些东西来吃，星期一它吃了一颗苹果，星期二吃了两颗梨子，星期三又吃了三颗李子，一整个星期都吃个不停，到了星期六终于闹肚子疼。星期天在吃了一片绿油油的叶子后，又肥又大的毛毛虫开始沉睡在自己建造的蛹里头，经过两个多星期的蛰伏，终于蜕变成美丽的蝴蝶。

Eric Carle艾瑞·卡尔，国际儿童文学大师，绘本专家，他创作了The Very Hungry Caterpillar《好饿的毛毛虫》、Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?《棕熊，棕熊，你看见什么?》、1,2,3 to the Zoo《1、2、3去动物园》等70多本色彩缤纷、富含想象力的拼贴画风格的图画书，被翻译成了多种语言，小读者遍布世界各地，并荣获多项世界著名儿童图画书奖。他笔下那条著名的毛毛虫，已被翻译成近50种语言版本，销量突破3300万，风行世界40余年。Eric Carle is the author and illustrator of more than seventy books for children, many of them bestsellers. Born in Syracuse, New York, he moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Stuttgart before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for The New York Times and later as art director for an international advertising agency. His first two books, 1,2,3 to the Zoo and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, gained him immediate international recognition. The latter title, now considered a modern classic, has sold more than 30 million copies and has been translated into forty-eight languages. Eric Carle and his wife, Barbara, divide their time between the mountains of North Carolina and the Florida Keys.

书名：Good Night, Gorilla 晚安，大猩猩
作者：Peggy Rathmann 佩吉·拉特曼
出版社名称：G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books
出版时间：1994
语种：英文
ISBN：9780399230035
商品尺寸：16.7 x 2.4 x 12.7 cm
包装：纸板书
页数：32

Good Night, Gorilla《晚安，大猩猩》是凯迪克大奖获得者佩吉·拉特曼的经典代表作，曾获得美国图书馆协会年度好书、美国《出版家周刊》Cuffie奖、美国儿童图书中心期刊“蓝丝带”奖等多项大奖。本书适合爸爸妈妈念给宝宝听，也适合3-6岁有一定英文基础的孩子自主阅读。
推荐理由：
1.吴敏兰绘本123推荐书单，也是百本必读绘本书目之一，值得一读；
2.全书文字不多且句式简单，除重复使用Good night外，只出现少量动物名称，韵律节奏感强，容易培养孩子的语感，尤其适合初学英语的小朋友；
3.故事幽默耐读，画风温馨，色彩以蓝紫色、灯光的橘黄色和草绿色为主，是一本很好的睡前故事绘本；
4.此外，本书是一个调皮的孩子享受父母创造安全感的故事，非常适合亲子共读。
Good Night, Gorilla won the 1994 Cuffie for “Most Likely to Succeed in Years Ahead” and has more than lived up to that prediction, becoming a modern classic that is a must in every child’s library. This perfect package will give kids the opportunity to cuddle up with an adorable plush gorilla while they are enjoying his secret bedtime antics. Author Biography: An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

夜深人静，动物园的管理员去跟动物们一一道晚安。调皮的大猩猩拿走了他挂在身后的一串钥匙，从笼子里溜了出来，还偷偷放出了大象、狮子、长颈鹿……就这样，动物们悄悄地跟在管理员身后回了家……
A zookeeper finds his normal nighttime routine upset when a mischievous little gorilla steals his keys and lets all his animal charges out of their cages, in a board book edition of the popular picture book.

佩吉·拉特曼（Peggy Rathmann），1953年出生于美国明尼苏达州，毕业于明尼苏达大学，获心理学学士学位，后又学习过美术及儿童文学写作。1991年，因《一味抄袭的鲁比》一书，拉特曼被评为“有潜力的新人”，并获得《出版者周刊》年度Cuffie奖。1996年出版的《警官巴克尔和警犬葛芮雅》更是一举囊括了包括该迪克金奖在内的十一项大奖。作为拉特曼代表作之一的《晚安，大猩猩》，也曾获得美国图书馆协会年度好书、美国《出版家周刊》Cuffie奖、美国儿童图书中心期刊“蓝丝带”奖等多项大奖。
Peggy Rathmann is an American illustrator and writer of children’s picture books.
Rathmann was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota. She studied commercial art, fine art, and children’s book creation in CHicago, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. Her first book, “Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the ‘Most Promising New Author’ distinction in Publishers Weekly’s 1991 annual Cuffie Awards.” That book was followed by her illustrations of Barbara Bottner’s Bootsie Barker Bites and by the self-illustrated Good Night, Gorilla, based on her experiences with gorillas.Officer Buckle and Gloria (1995) won the annual Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration. Since then she has written two more:Ten Minutes till Bedtime andThe Day The Babies Crawled Away, which made the Horn Book Fanfare List of best books of 2003.