Where Are You Going? To See My Friend! (English and Japanese Edition)

Great for grades k-2. Illustrations made with watercolors. Helps kids with good character. A dog, a cat, a rooster, a goat, a rabbit, and finally a child join together on a journey to see their friends in this unique bilingual collaboration that unites cultures and languages.

This is a story of a dog going to visit his friend. Along the way he runs into other animals that want to come so they all make there way to the friend. WHen they arrive the little boy is excited to see the animals. He then introduces us to his friend, who is Japanese. The story then goes in

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reverse to tell us the journey of the girls animals. It is allin Japanese. This book is a way to educate your child about different cultures and languages. Eric carle and Kazu Iwamura illustrate the book fantastically.

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A group of animals head off to see their friends, singing all the way. The first part of this story is in English, and the second part is in Japanese; the two parts are connected by the song the animals and children are singing. A helpful pronunciation guide is included in the Japanese section.

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This is a good book for parents who want their children to learn a bit of either of these languages, or just want to expose their children to a wider range of culture.

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A dog, a cat, a rooster, a goat, a rabbit, and a child boy, girl all join in the journey to see their friends. They are singing song and dancing while they are going. A story of friendship in two languages is in English and Japanese. This book will be used for children to know the name of animals

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and to sing song. It also teaches children about cultures and language.

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This is a book that helps to teach kids that we can have friends of all ethnicities. The little song they use in the book is a really powerful tool to engage the children. As usual, Carle's illustrations are wonderful. This would be a great book to use in most any class nowadays, because modern

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classrooms have children from all different backgrounds.

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A good story to read to young children about having good friends of all different ethnicities.

Eric Carle joined forces with Kazuo Iwanura and created a fun song book about a group of animals who joined together with a boy who speaks English and a Japanese girl and create a song! I like how this book combines illustrations of collage style, like Carle's, and illustrations with a japanese

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style. The texts are also accompanied by Japanese translations! This book would be fun to sing with a class, such as have a group sing the japanese parts and another sing the English. Also, the class can create a short Japanese song, with each student creating their own word. This book shows a strong and fun connection between two different cultures.

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I would consider this a multicultural book; it tells the story of a friendship in two languages. There are many friends made throughout the story, and by the end of the road they all sing and dance together. The songs are in two differnt languages.

Eric Carle creates a book for children to be open and learn another language. This book is full of rhyming and repetition. Eric Carle created this book in a ask and answer format. Half of this book is in English and the other half in Japanese. The pictures are put together in collage form and the

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book unfolds in the middle to help readers understand that Eric Carle and illustrator Kazuo Iwamuras stories and art come together as the friends finally meet. This allows both the English and Japanese language connect.

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This is a story about friendship. It is a bilingual book, that means it is written in two languages. This is written in English and Japanese. Carle uses repition in this book, which is great for beginning readers. A dog is off to meet a friend and invites a cat to come along. A rooster, a goat, and

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a rabbit also end up tagging along. The "friend" ends up being a child. Everyone meets up to sing a dance.
This story is written with two different authors. If a person is familiar with Carle's work it would be easy to identify which part Carle wrote. The only problem a teacher would have reading this story, would be the side that is written in Japanese. While the two authors use the exact same words, the students would not be able to understand them.

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In my opinion, this is a great multicultural books for two reasons: the engaging writing, and the illustrations. This story has several different animals throughout and each time the animal is speaking, there is a picture of the animal next to their dialog. This makes it easier for readers to

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follow along and have a visual representation too. Secondly, I really enjoyed the illustrations. They are bright and vivid, readers can easily distinguish the dog, cat, rooster,and billy goat. The second half of this book, is in Japanese and the illustrations of the animals are more lightly colored, with soft brush stroke. This is a great book that could tie different cultures together. The overall message of this book is friendship is the same, no matter what language you speak.

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My boyfriend and I went to the Eric Carle Museum during our July vacation and they had a full wall feature mural of this book. I was immediately drawn to the idea of the collaboration between the author/artists and the artwork. I've read my share of manga so am familiar with the difference in

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reading direction. I really like that they were providing a work to children that embraces both cultures.

Sadly, this book is no longer in print but I was able to purchase a used copy online.

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