书名：Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Board Book)北极熊，北极熊，你听见了什么？纸板书

读者对象：0-6岁
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数AD670L
作者：Bill Martin Jr比尔·马丁，Eric Carle艾瑞·卡尔
出版社名称：Puffin
出版时间：2007
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141383514
商品尺寸：12.8 x 1.7 x 17.9 cm
包装：纸板精装
页数：28
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?《北极熊，北极熊，你听见了什么？》这本书色彩鲜艳，易于引起读者的阅读兴趣。全书通过重复问句“What Do You Hear?”，带出10种动物的回答“I hear a... in my ear”。孩子可以学习北极熊、狮子、河马、火烈鸟、斑马、蛇、大象、豹子、孔雀、海象的英文名称和形容他们叫声的动词。每页的英文都句式短小且朗朗上口，像儿歌一样，方便孩子诵读和自然背记。重复出现的“What Do You Hear?”和“I hear something doing in my ear”的句型，帮助孩子形成良好的语感。

末页饲养员总结：“我听到孩子们在学北极熊吼叫，学狮子咆哮，学河马打哼声，学火烈鸟的笛叫声，学斑马粗声叫，学蟒蛇发嘶嘶声，学大象吼叫，学豹低吼，学孔雀尖叫，学海象咆哮……”。

是不是瞬间也感觉耳边充满了各种声音呢？

能把一本书变得这么热闹有趣，这就是卡尔爷爷大师级的功力啊！

Bill Martin’s playful story combining animals, colours and sounds, beautifully illustrated by Eric Carle, now appears in a chunky board-book format. A simple rhythmic text introduces the reader to a menagerie of wild animals from a roaring lion to a fluting flamingo and a trumpeting elephant.

Review

“Carle’s books all have an educational element—they teach about animals, numbers, colours and nature—but a big part of their appeal is that they are not didactic or laboured, but light and entertaining. There’s warmth and humour there too.”  — Junior

“The natural history is a source for smiles, the illustrations in collage and paint are little works of art.”  — Times Educational Supplement

“What a spectacular picture book! ... A treat for all ages.”  — Books for Keeps

比尔·马丁（1916~2004），身兼作家、编辑、教育家，曾任小学老师、校长。1967年在火车上得到灵感创作了《棕色的熊、棕色的熊，你在看什么》（Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See），并邀请艾瑞·卡尔画插图。

艾瑞·卡尔，1929年出生于纽约，1935年随父母返德国定居。艾瑞·卡尔讨厌德国式的教育，专业教育下的学校生活及时代的战乱，让他的少年时光并不快乐。战后，从小就展露绘画天分且向往自由浪漫的艾瑞·卡尔，在中学绘画老师的推荐及母亲的鼓励下，进入斯图加特艺术学院学习了四年的商业设计，一毕业即在时尚杂志担任艺术总监。1952年，艾瑞·卡尔再次踏上他要实现梦想的土地——美国。因缘巧合，艾瑞·卡尔得到李欧·李奥尼的赏识和推荐，顺利开始他在《纽约时报》的工作，发挥美术兼广告设计的长才。1960年成立了个人工作室，辛勤工作之外，他更渴望蜕变、渴望创作！
1967年，艾瑞·卡尔首次有机会为孩子的书配上插画，这次充满乐趣、大胆发挥创意的过程，让他感觉畅快淋漓，也引领他日后走向为儿童创作图画书的道路。他年近40才开始创作图画书，迄今为止，已经创作了《棕色的熊、棕色的熊，你在看什么？》、《好饿的毛毛虫》、《海马先生》、《爸爸，我要月亮》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，并荣获多项世界知名儿童图画书奖。他笔下那条有名的毛毛虫，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。

Bill Martin Jr, an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet, held a doctoral degree in early childhood education. His many books, among them the bestselling classics Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?;Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?;Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?; and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, are a testament to his ability to speak directly to children.

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 ZooandThe 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.