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くまくんの絵本

by Shigeo Watanabe, Yasuo Ohtomo

これはお行儀の本ではありません。いざ食事をはじめようとするくまくん＝幼児の悪戦苦闘ぶりをあるがままに、しかしあたたかくユーモラスに語った楽しい絵本です。

Genres: Picture Books, Food

24 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1980

About the author

His name is written as 渡辺茂男 in Japanese, and translated as 渡邊茂男 in Traditional Chinese.

渡辺茂男は、戦後1950年代後半から2000年初頭にかけ、欧米の優れた児童文学や絵本の翻訳と紹介、平行して童話や絵本の創作を精力的におこなった。翻訳と創作を合計すると、生涯に300冊もの子どもの本を出版した。

Reviews

[Edward Sojuwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

From Japanese kids author Shigeo Watanabe comes a real creative way to get kids to enjoy food, one where there are no set rules, AT ALL! A humble baby bear tries to do the utensil thing with the soup, salad and spaghetti lunch. But he is a bear, so the "proper" way to dine doesn't quite go as planned. So he comes up with a solution: pile all that stuff on the plate and just scarf the damn thing down and give a happy burp when done! How hardcore cool is that! Any person who breaks the rules of what's considered status quo is the kind of person I like when it comes to standing up for children and how we treat them. We can learn from this man. We should.
Four stars
Watanabe for you!!!!

[Marilyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alissa loves messy eaters!

[June · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't like this as much as How do I put it on?. However, I find Watanabe one of the authors who does toddler well, maybe 3.5. I use this for my food/Thanksgiving program for the young ones. 11/14/12

Used again. 11/12/13

Used in PJ Story time 11/24/14

Used in Lap Time. One toddler really enjoyed it.

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

You can see Llewy relating to this as you read it. It's rare that much of what he reads connects directly to his own experience, so that's nice. Sadly its last page, where the bear has a cup upturned on his head, is responsible for the now semi-regular great hi-jinks of an upturned bowl on Llewy's head. Still, a good book is worth it. Read at 19 months.

[Paula · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little bear is eating lunch all by himself, not always using the right utensils with the consequences shown in the illustrations