語数 2,500 YL 3.5
遥か昔、銀河の中で太陽が生まれた。そしてその周りをまわる8つの
惑星が生まれた。最初は生命が生きられない熱を持った地球の表面も
徐々に冷え、地球内部からの熱で地殻が形成された。
雨が降り注ぎ地球に海が生まれ、三葉虫をはじめとした生命が誕生する。
次第に木や植物や爬虫類への誕生へとつながり、地球の温暖多湿化により
恐竜などの大きな生命体の誕生へとつながっていく。
人間の誕生は、この壮大な地球の歴史の中ではほんの最近のことである。
洞窟での生活、簡素な住居での生活から始まり、自らの生活を送るための
工夫をしながら現在の姿へとつながっていく…。
大きなスケールの壮大な絵本です。
地球の中での自分のちっぽけさなんかも感じてしまう一冊です。
細かい記述まで読むとかなり深い内容が書かれているので、大人でも勉強
になる本です。
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Life Story ペーパーバック – 1989/10/30
英語版
Virginia Lee Burton
(著)
A beautifully designed book set up as a play in five acts. The passage of time is shown visually on each page.
- 対象読者年齢4 ~ 7 歳
- 本の長さ80ページ
- 言語英語
- 対象未就学児 - 2
- 寸法24.77 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm
- 出版社HMH Books for Young Readers
- 発売日1989/10/30
- ISBN-100395520177
- ISBN-13978-0395520178
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"Miss Burton succeeds in giving the reader a sense of his own place in the magnificent flow of time and creation." Horn Book
"Miss Burton succeeds in giving the reader a sense of his own place in the magnificent flow of time and creation." Horn Book Guide
"Miss Burton succeeds in giving the reader a sense of his own place in the magnificent flow of time and creation." Horn Book Guide
著者について
Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) was the talented author and illustrator of some of the most enduring books ever written for children. The winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for THE LITTLE HOUSE, Burton's books include heroes and happy endings, lively illustrations, and a dash of nostalgia. She lived with her two sons, Aristides and Michael, and her husband George Demetrios, the sculptor, in a section of Gloucester, Massachusetts, called Folly Cove. Here she taught a class in design and from it emerged the Folly Cove designers, a group of internationally known professional artisans. She is the author of many classic children's picture books, including MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL and KATY AND THE BIG SNOW.
登録情報
- 出版社 : HMH Books for Young Readers (1989/10/30)
- 発売日 : 1989/10/30
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 80ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0395520177
- ISBN-13 : 978-0395520178
- 対象読者年齢 : 4 ~ 7 歳
- 寸法 : 24.77 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 683,916位洋書 (洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る)
- - 306位Children's Earth Sciences Books
- - 1,556位History of Technology (洋書)
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トップレビュー
上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2013年10月1日に日本でレビュー済み
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宇宙の始まり”ビッグバン”から生命の誕生、恐竜の世界・・と地球の軌跡を美しい画とシンプルでわかりやすい言葉でつづられている。アメリカの子供はこんな素敵な絵本を見て育っているのだと思うと本当にうらやましいというか、文化の違いを如実に感じてしまう。絵本のバイブル的存在。
2007年8月14日に日本でレビュー済み
We read this book so many times from the library that I had to buy it. All of the ages of the history of the world are touched on. There are so many drawings to look at over multiple readings and you as a parent can point out new things each time or dwell on some idea longer too. Also the writing is so soothing. Even in a hyper state it calms you down and you soon feel sleepy. It is better than singing a lullaby. We think it is a classic. Also I personally like how time that is recent gets more coverage. Isn't it true that we are thinking mostly of ourselves, so when she asks us to write the next pages it is really good for children to try.
2019年7月30日に日本でレビュー済み
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This is a little old-fashioned, but beautiful picture book for American children, telling the history of life on the earth. The words and sentences in the book are rhythmic like poems and comfortable to read.
・これは少し古いが美しい絵本です。アメリカ合衆国の子供たちに、地球の生命の歴史を教えています。文章がリズミカルで詩のようなので、読んでいて心地よいです。
・これは少し古いが美しい絵本です。アメリカ合衆国の子供たちに、地球の生命の歴史を教えています。文章がリズミカルで詩のようなので、読んでいて心地よいです。
2014年5月12日に日本でレビュー済み
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3歳になったばかりの息子に買いましたが、難しいです。もうすこし、本棚に寝かせます。
2001年7月23日に日本でレビュー済み
地球の誕生から始まり、恐竜の時代、氷河期、そして現代までの長い歴史が1つのお芝居のようになっています。子供が読んでもためになると思いますが、大人が読んでも楽しめる1冊です。
2007年1月15日に日本でレビュー済み
小さな一冊なのに、この中に長い長い歴史が描かれた素晴らしい本です。
Burtonの素朴ながら夢と迫力にあふれる絵もとても味わい深いです。
他の方も書かれていますが、大人も子供も楽しめる本だと思います。
まず最初のページには『大宇宙のはじまり』が描かれています。
壮大なスケールの話が簡潔な英文とお芝居仕立てで描かれています。
(おのおのの時代が舞台装置として一幕ごとに描かれています)
太陽系・地球が出来上がり、やがて地球上に初めての生命が生まれて
様々な生命が誕生し絶滅し、我々の祖先・ほ乳類がやっとでてきます。
やがて人類の創世記を迎え、狩猟・農耕がなされ、文明を築き。。。
私たち人類の辿った歴史のあとに、この本の最後の一幕があります。
ここに著者から読者への素敵な素敵なメッセージが書かれています。
大人にも子供にもすべての人におくられた素敵なメッセージ。
ぜひぜひこの本を手にとって読んでみてください。
この絵本が長く愛されている理由が分かるはず。
(本文の難易度は中学英語程度でしょうか?
英語が苦手な私でもなんとかなりました)
Burtonの素朴ながら夢と迫力にあふれる絵もとても味わい深いです。
他の方も書かれていますが、大人も子供も楽しめる本だと思います。
まず最初のページには『大宇宙のはじまり』が描かれています。
壮大なスケールの話が簡潔な英文とお芝居仕立てで描かれています。
(おのおのの時代が舞台装置として一幕ごとに描かれています)
太陽系・地球が出来上がり、やがて地球上に初めての生命が生まれて
様々な生命が誕生し絶滅し、我々の祖先・ほ乳類がやっとでてきます。
やがて人類の創世記を迎え、狩猟・農耕がなされ、文明を築き。。。
私たち人類の辿った歴史のあとに、この本の最後の一幕があります。
ここに著者から読者への素敵な素敵なメッセージが書かれています。
大人にも子供にもすべての人におくられた素敵なメッセージ。
ぜひぜひこの本を手にとって読んでみてください。
この絵本が長く愛されている理由が分かるはず。
(本文の難易度は中学英語程度でしょうか?
英語が苦手な私でもなんとかなりました)
他の国からのトップレビュー
Cakegrrrl
5つ星のうち5.0
Really enjoy the feelings evoked in this tale of the evolution ...
2018年6月10日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Really enjoy the feelings evoked in this tale of the evolution of life on earth to the present day culminating in and starring the child reading the book in the present moment. It has magic. It is a longer read than Mike Mulligan, we often read it over 2 days for our little ones to get them used to the concept of reading longer chapter books. That way we can linger on the artwork and talk about what the kids think. I have one problem with this book, in terms of updating the accuracy of the content. I use it as a teaching moment and stop. Pg. 45 & 47 which talk about Europeans discovering the New World - they didn't. It glosses by the existence of First Nations people in a way that needs to be addressed for ethical reasons in the timeline of humanity. Silence condones the damage of colonialism and denies the truth. I believe Virginia would have written this differently if she had been educated today. I tell my kids there is a mistake in this book, and the author probably made it unintentionally simply because all the published history books back then purposefully misled kids and gave them a distorted world view. Then we give acknowledgement to the Coast Salish People on whose unceded territory our community sits where we are at this moment, and carry on with the story. The magic in the book still overcomes this enough for a 5 rating, and indeed allows us to address it in conversation. Love Virginia Lee Burton.
ester
5つ星のうち5.0
precioso
2016年6月3日にスペインでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Ilustraciones preciosas, texto muy bonito. Desde el origen del mundo hasta nuestros días explicado de forma muy original. Tapa blanda.
Gwen
5つ星のうち5.0
Great reference book for kids!
2014年4月9日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
The drawings and story format are so dated, but I love vintage and retro style, not to mention how much I always loved Virginia Lee Burton books as a child, so I was really pleased to get this book for my 3 and 4 year old! The story was long winded, as is typical with Ms. Burton, but we read it as a supplement to a unit we are doing on earth formation and leading into evolution and dinosaurs. I found my 3 year old referring back to it later on his own and telling ME which dinosaurs were which.
A great way to explain the Big Bang Theory, ice age, a time line, evolution, geology, biology, all sorts. I was also really happy to learn that it's been updated to reflect modern research too- for example, I expected to see a brontosaurus, but that was taken out as it's since been decided that it was something else. Obviously I need to look it up again. haha
Great book for kids who's interest in our planet and how things came about has piqued, maybe not so much for kids who are TV junkies and want Scooby Doo all the time. Not judging, just saying.
A great way to explain the Big Bang Theory, ice age, a time line, evolution, geology, biology, all sorts. I was also really happy to learn that it's been updated to reflect modern research too- for example, I expected to see a brontosaurus, but that was taken out as it's since been decided that it was something else. Obviously I need to look it up again. haha
Great book for kids who's interest in our planet and how things came about has piqued, maybe not so much for kids who are TV junkies and want Scooby Doo all the time. Not judging, just saying.
redrose
5つ星のうち5.0
What a Wonderful, Wonderful Book
2009年12月31日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I was searching for a really good book about dinosaurs for my almost 4 year old daughter who has just developed an interest in prehistoric creatures, when I stumbled onto this book.
We own other titles by Burton, The Little House, Katy and the Big Snow, and Calico the Wonder Horse, and love them all. But I think this book is the best. Why? Because, for my daughter, who demands daily readings, it has cracked the world of science wide open, spurring question after question about everything from meteors to the different types of rock, volcanoes, weather, the solar system, and on and on. Using the format of an engaging story, Burton has managed to touch on each of these subjects, and more, and pack so much information into a mere 80-pages. But it's not just rote information, it is a story, it is a play, and it is presented in such an entertaining way that it paves the path for a young child begin a journey of discovery that is integral to a life-long love and understanding of natural history and of the composition of the world around them.
Burton's story begins 'eons and eons ago' when 'our sun was born.' Each page is laid out with the left side containing a one-paragraph description of the period of time being sampled. This is paired with a tri-color visual narrative of what is happening, be it a 5-sketch demonstration of lava erupting from the Earth's core or the evolutionary progression of invertebrate organisms, plants, or animals. The drawings create almost a (slow) motion picture to accompany the words. The left page is dedicated to a full-color scene, set behind a stage, complete with drawn-aside red velvet curtain, and a curious little man examining the different goings-on. He, too, becomes more modern as the story progresses.
Something that I love about the format of this book is that the book begins by capturing snapshots of different periods of time that are very far apart; the first two documented time periods are 560,000,000 years apart. Mid-way through the book, the scenes are only 3,200,000 apart, and finally, by the end of the book, time slows down to 100 years, then 25, then 15, then each of the four seasons, then it is slowed to days, hours, and finally the final dark minutes before the sun rises and a new dawn is upon us. Early on, as time slows, Burton introduces her family into the story, and you find that this is her life story. On the final pages, as the story she has to tell draws to a close, Burton turns the story over to you, the reader, because it is your life story too. That last poetic touch is so beautiful, so perfect, that it leaves me in awe of the woman who wrote this book.
I don't think that this book could have been written, presented, and illustrated better. Every part just 'fits.' The ending, I believe in time, will help my child to understand where she fits into this story, and perhaps she, as I do, will feel that warm swell of love toward our home, our Earth, and all the life that has walked upon it, and gratitude that she has a place among such a brilliant history.
We own other titles by Burton, The Little House, Katy and the Big Snow, and Calico the Wonder Horse, and love them all. But I think this book is the best. Why? Because, for my daughter, who demands daily readings, it has cracked the world of science wide open, spurring question after question about everything from meteors to the different types of rock, volcanoes, weather, the solar system, and on and on. Using the format of an engaging story, Burton has managed to touch on each of these subjects, and more, and pack so much information into a mere 80-pages. But it's not just rote information, it is a story, it is a play, and it is presented in such an entertaining way that it paves the path for a young child begin a journey of discovery that is integral to a life-long love and understanding of natural history and of the composition of the world around them.
Burton's story begins 'eons and eons ago' when 'our sun was born.' Each page is laid out with the left side containing a one-paragraph description of the period of time being sampled. This is paired with a tri-color visual narrative of what is happening, be it a 5-sketch demonstration of lava erupting from the Earth's core or the evolutionary progression of invertebrate organisms, plants, or animals. The drawings create almost a (slow) motion picture to accompany the words. The left page is dedicated to a full-color scene, set behind a stage, complete with drawn-aside red velvet curtain, and a curious little man examining the different goings-on. He, too, becomes more modern as the story progresses.
Something that I love about the format of this book is that the book begins by capturing snapshots of different periods of time that are very far apart; the first two documented time periods are 560,000,000 years apart. Mid-way through the book, the scenes are only 3,200,000 apart, and finally, by the end of the book, time slows down to 100 years, then 25, then 15, then each of the four seasons, then it is slowed to days, hours, and finally the final dark minutes before the sun rises and a new dawn is upon us. Early on, as time slows, Burton introduces her family into the story, and you find that this is her life story. On the final pages, as the story she has to tell draws to a close, Burton turns the story over to you, the reader, because it is your life story too. That last poetic touch is so beautiful, so perfect, that it leaves me in awe of the woman who wrote this book.
I don't think that this book could have been written, presented, and illustrated better. Every part just 'fits.' The ending, I believe in time, will help my child to understand where she fits into this story, and perhaps she, as I do, will feel that warm swell of love toward our home, our Earth, and all the life that has walked upon it, and gratitude that she has a place among such a brilliant history.
A. Volk
5つ星のうち5.0
Fascinating tale of "you"
2012年12月11日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This is a beautifully illustrated story of "you" the reader from an evolutionary perspective. It starts off at the beginning of life and runs through the various evolutionary eras. From fish to amphibians to dinosaurs to prehistoric mammals to humans to farmers to modern dwellers, this book starts off as an evolutionary tour of humanity and ends with the reader at home with this book. It makes a fascinating tale for children (and adults) as it ties evolution directly to the reader. It is aimed at a North American audience (include settlers as part of the thread), but that's not a major issue. The illustrations are lush and creative. This is not a book for anatomical correctness. It's more about impressions of past animals, and it is really cool in that regard. I think this would make an excellent introduction to human evolution for children given it's gentle presentation of the science, the interest of the different eras, the uniqueness of the drawing style, and the fact that it ultimately brings it back home to the reader. A fun book worthy of five stars!