Review Summaries

• Its restrained text and visual humor are highly praised, and it is received as readable both as a children’s picture book and as adult satire.

Reviews

• 満足しています！

  中古品でしたが、大変美しい状態で届きました。出展者の本への愛情を感じました。

• 日本語と

  英語も読みたかったので

• 言葉を理解できなくても、絵でストーリーがわかりそう

  1ページ1文、子供が英語に親しむのにいいと思います。 結末は私と子供達とでは見解が分かれましたが、どうしてそう思うのか、と議論できて楽しかったです。 絵本は自由な発想で読み、そして楽しみたいですね。

• 目がいい！

  ジョン・ㇰラッセンファンならやっぱり欲しい一冊。大きなお魚さんの目が色々語っていて最高です♪ マットな質感のカバーと紙も好みです。外カバーを外しても中の表紙も同じなのもGOOD。Sam and Dave Dig a Holeに比べるとかなり単純なストーリーではあるので若干物足りなさは感じますが、でもやっぱりこのOpen-Endedな感じがおもしろく、あらゆる年代にオススメの一冊です！

• 子供の読み聞かせに使っています。いい本だと思います。

  最後、このちいさなおさかながどうなったかな と 少々、残酷な結果も想像してしまうかもしれませんが、 いろいろ、お子さんとおはなしするきっかけになるかもしれません、それも いいのかなとおもいました。

• 盛り上がります

  英語がまだよくわからない子どもでも、だいたい理解できるようです。 本の状態も良く、買ってよかったです。

• 絵がとってもいい、コールデコット賞とケイト・グリーナウェイ賞受賞作品

  語数 205 YL 0.6 『I Want My Hat Back』や『Sam and Dave Dig a Hole』など、個性光る 作品を生み出すJon Klassen氏による代表作品で、2013年にはコールデ コット賞金賞を、2014年にはケイト・グリーナウェイ賞を受賞した、 物凄い絵本です。 この本に出てくるのは、小さな魚と大きな差かなとカニのみ。そして 小さな魚が考えていることのみで、お話が展開していく構成になって います。 小さな魚が、大きな魚が寝ている時に、帽子を盗みました。きっと 盗られたことにも気づいていないだろう。だって、その大きな魚にし てはあまりに小さな帽子だし、もし仮に気づいたとしても、それが 僕だってことは分からないだろう。もし仮に予想がついたとしても 僕がどこに行っているかなんて知らないだろう…。 そういった、小さな魚の願とも言える思いに反して、大きな魚は…。 大きな魚の目も何とも言えないシュールな目だし、展開もオチも 面白く、笑いながら読み進められます。日本語では『ちがうねん』 の邦題で和訳が出ていますが、確かに関西弁で語るとぴったりマッ チしそうな内容です。

• 圧倒的な美しさ

  盗まれた側から見た熊編も、友情を優先する亀編も素晴らしいのですが、著者の画力が存分に発揮されているとすれば、この魚編だと思います。画像よりも実物の方が綺麗です。出張先の実店舗で見つけた時には息を呑みました。後日、アマゾンで熊編と亀編も買いましたが、実店舗で実物と出会う機会の大切さを知らせてくれる1冊となりました。

• Gorgeous book

  Beautiful quality books with funny storyline

• Very original, one of my favourites!

  Amazing book, art and story! Love all Klassen’s books! Very good use of text and images! Very clever and good message!

• Şaşırtan bir kitap

  Yine yazarların yaratıcılığına şaşırdığımız bir kitap. Yazılar ve resimler iki farklı hikayeyi anlatıyor. Kesinlikle çok sevdim. Jon Klassen'in çizimlerini de ayrıca çok beğeniyorum. Mat Barnett ile yaptığı kitapları da tavsiye ederim.

• Another easy to read book with plenty of humour.

  We own this author's first book (I Want My Hat) - which is so brilliant I couldn't wait to buy his next book. My son recently complained that too many of books were "the same". He wanted something truly unique and that is how we found Jon Klassen. I must point out though, that the black humour in these books may not appeal to all children - and in fact may upset some. I would advise parents to read this on thier own before sitting down to storytime. This story is about a small fish who steals a hat from a much larger fish. He is quite pleased with himself, gloating about how he will get away with his crime - but crime doesn't pay and tiny fish should not antagonise big ones. Tiny fish swims through blackened ocean happily talking to himself about how big fish will never know what happened, will never find him etc.... All the while big fish is swimming behind getting closer and closer. I will not give away the ending - but I will say it might upset some children. However, the unhappy parts are not actually shown, they are simply implied by illustration so you can easily craft your own happier ending. This has an absolutely delightful deadpan humour. My children are ages 4 and 7, and although my 7 year old rarely reads picture books anymore, he did enjoy this - and I have to admit - so did I. The illustrations are striking as well. I very much like the black water as opposed to traditional blue. It adds to the uniqueness of this book. It also a nice book to discuss the morality of taking things that do not belong to you with children. But in addition to being a brilliant story certain to entice reluctant readers, this book, is a wonderful resource for reading instruction. The early readers by Dr Seuss were limited to 250 words. This book uses only 92 and almost all of these are extremely easy to read words, which would be on the same list the Dr Seuss books were drawn from. Most of the words are common one syllable words easily sounded out with phonics and familiar to most children such as "hat", "fish", "big" and "small". The most challenging words in this book were "probably" and " worried" but if a child can read the rest of the book they can easily learn two new words for one book. In addition, the text is in a very large clear black font, on a white background with good spacing in between lines, making it ideal for new readers or children with dyslexia. Most pages only have one or two short sentences - this would make the ideal reading primer and it is ever so much more fun than Peter and Jane. It's high interest level and slightly wicked wit will appeal to older children as well, making this the perfect book for children who are reading below age level. This really is a book that can be enjoyed by all ages. If you do enjoy this book - I must suggest you try "I Want My Hat" as well which is even easier to read with only 68 words.

• Joyful and calming

  I love the hat series so much. Just something about these books feels joyful and calming.

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