Where are you going? To See My Friend.

Where Are You Going? To See My Friend!

Written by Eric Carle and Kazuo Iwamura

Illustrated by

Orchard Books, 2001

Multicultural

Culture: Japanese

36 pages

Come with the animals on a fun adventure! The animals are heading to see their friend. You see, the animals love to sing and dance. Saying this, the animals meet new friends along the way. Everyone wants to join in and follow the other animals to go meet their friend. Who all will they meet along the way? Who is their friend? Will they ever make it to their friend?

The illustrations in this book are very simple and straight to point. The illustrations are here and there on the page. The illustrations for the English version of this book appear to be done on a computer. However, the Japanese version’s illustrations were created in colored pencils. Altogether, the illustrations are very creative.

This book can be integrated into the classroom in three different ways. First, this book is a great way to include a child from Japan into my classroom. This is because the second story of the book is written in Japanese. Secondly, this book can also help a teacher introduce onomatopoeias. Then thirdly, this book would be great to do a class skit with for a lesson on fluency. Altogether, this book is a great resource.