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アメリカ・ペンシルベニア州に住むジャックとアニーの兄弟が、ある日、森の木の上にある不思議な小屋を発見。二人がこの小屋からあらゆる時代にタイムスリップし、スリルいっぱいの体験をしながら、さまざまな冒険をしていくお話です。
■ 初心者向け(難易度順)
あおむしが蝶に変身していくストーリー。世界中で愛されている仕掛け絵本で、邦題は"はらぺこあおむし"です。
I'm Going to Read! シリーズ
ネイティブの児童の語彙力と「読む楽しさ」を向上させるために書かれたシリーズです。レベル1〜4まであるので、自分にぴったりのレベルを見つけて楽しむことができます。
"I'm Going to Read!" レベル1 一覧(アルファベット順)
"I'm Going to Read!" レベル2 一覧(アルファベット順)
"I'm Going to Read!" レベル3 一覧(アルファベット順)
"I'm Going to Read!" レベル4 一覧(アルファベット順)
毎晩星をながめては自分だけの星があったらなぁ…と思っている星が大好きな男の子。その子は星と友達になることが夢でした。そして自分だけの星を探しに出かけるのです。
ほんとうの星は夜空に輝いているけど、"星"はいたるところにあって、あなたのすぐ近くにもあります。
大人も楽しめる絵本です。
アルマの名前をぜーんぶ書くと、アルマ・ソフィア・エスペランサ・ホセ・プーラ・カンデラ。ながすぎです。なんでこんなにながいのか、って?それにはね、わけがあるんです。名前にこめられた、家族のものがたりを、パパがアルマに語ります。
仲良しの友だちにまさるものなし…。有名な仲良しふたり組、かえるくんとがまくんは、何世代にもわたって子どもたちに愛されつづけている。お化けの話をするときも、なくしたボタンを探すときも、クッキーを食べすぎてしまったときも、ふたりの冒険にはいつだって友情の魔法があふれている。
"Frog and Toad" シリーズ 一覧(発売順)
Magic School Bus シリーズ
フリズル先生が運転するスクールバスは、生徒たちを恐竜の時代や宇宙空間への楽しい旅に連れていってくれます。バスで「現場」に行った子どもたちはハラハラどきどきの冒険を楽しみながら、科学の基礎知識が身につく科学絵本シリーズです。
"Magic School Bus" Original Series 一覧(発売順)
・The Magic School Bus At The Waterworks
・The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
・The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body
・The Magic School Bus Lost In The Solar System
・The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs
・The Magic School Bus Inside A Hurricane
・The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive
・The Magic School Bus And The Electric Field Trip
・The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses
"Magic School Bus" Nonfiction 一覧(発売順)
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Our Solar System
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Sea Creatures
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Wild Weather
・The Magic School Bus Presents: The Human Body
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Planet Earth
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Dinosaurs
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Volcanoes & Earthquakes
・The Magic School Bus Presents: The Rainforest
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Polar Animals
・The Magic School Bus Presents: Insects
ウィルバーはズッカーマンの農場に引っ越すことになりましたが、緊張しています。納屋は大きくて怖いところ。シャーロットという名前の親切なクモからの助けを借りて、ウィルバーはズッカーマンの農場での生活は結局のところそんなに悪くないことを学びます。
見たものをカメラで撮影したように記憶できる能力を持った主人公の女の子Cam Jansenが身の回りで起こる様々な事件を解決していくミステリーのシリーズものです。
"Cam Jansen Adventures" シリーズ一覧(発売順)
#1 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE STOLEN DIAMONDS
#2 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE U.F.O
#3 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE DINOSAUR BONES
#4 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE TELEVISION DOG
#5 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLD COINS
#6 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE BABE RUTH BASEBALL
#7 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE CIRCUS CLOWN
#8 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MONSTER MOVIE
#9 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE CARNIVAL PRIZE
#10 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MONKEY HOUSE
#11 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY -- STOLEN CORN POPPER
#12 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 54
#13 CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HAUNTED HOUSE
#14 CAM JANSEN AND THE CHOCOLATE FUDGE MYSTERY
#15 CAM JANSEN AND THE TRICERATOPS POPS MYSTERY
#16 CAM JANSEN AND THE GHOSTLY MYSTERY
#17 CAM JANSEN AND SCARY SNAKE MYSTERY
#18 CAM JANSEN AND CATNAPPING MYSTERY
#19 CAM JANSEN AND BARKING TREASURE MYSTERY
#20 CAM JANSEN AND BIRTHDAY MYSTERY
#21 CAM JANSEN AND SCHOOL PLAY MYSTERY
#22 CAM JANSEN AND FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL MYSTERY
#23 CAM JANSEN AND TENNIS TROPHY MYSTERY
#24 CAM JANSEN AND SNOWY DAY MYSTERY
#25 CAM JANSEN AND VALENTINE DAY MYSTERY
#26 CAM JANSEN AND SECRET SERVICE MYSTERY
#27 CAM JANSEN AND MYSTERY WRITER MYSTERY
#28 CAM JANSEN AND THE GREEN SCHOOL MYSTERY
#29 CAM JANSEN AND THE BASKETBALL MYSTERY
#30 CAM JANSEN AND THE WEDDING CAKE MYSTERY
#31 CAM JANSEN AND THE GRADUATION DAY MYSTERY
#32 CAM JANSEN AND THE MILLIONAIRE MYSTERY
#33 CAM JANSEN AND THE SPAGHETTI MAX MYSTERY
#34 CAM JANSEN AND THE JOKE HOUSE MYSTERY
アメリカ・ペンシルベニア州に住むジャックとアニーの兄弟が、ある日、森の木の上にある不思議な小屋を発見。二人がこの小屋からあらゆる時代にタイムスリップし、スリルいっぱいの体験をしながら、さまざまな冒険をしていくお話です。
"MAGIC TREE HOUSE" シリーズ一覧(発売順)
#1 Dinosaurs Before Dark
#2 The Knight at Dawn
#3 Mummies in the Morning
#4 Pirates Past Noon
#5 Night of the Ninjas
#6 Afternoon on the Amazon
#7 Sunset of the Sabertooth
#8 Midnight on the Moon
#9 Dolphins at Daybreak
#10 Ghost Town at Sundown
#11 Lions at Lunchtime
#12 Polar Bears Past Bedtime
#13 Vacation Under The Volcano
#14 Day of the Dragon King
#15 Viking Ships At Sunrise
#16 Hour of the Olympics
#17 Tonight on the Titanic
#18 Buffalo Before Breakfast
#19 Tigers at Twilight
#20 Dingoes at Dinnertime
#21 Civil War On Sunday
#22 Revolutionary War on Wednesday
#23 Twister on Tuesday
#24 Earthquake in the Early Morning
#25 Stage Fright on a Summer Night
#26 Good Morning, Gorillas
#27 Thanksgiving on Thursday
#28 High Tide in Hawaii
#29 A Big Day for Baseball
#30 Hurricane Heroes in Texas
#31 Warriors in Winter
#32 To the Future, Ben Franklin!
#33 Narwhal on a Sunny Night
#34 Late Lunch with Llamas
#35 Camp Time in California
7人のちびっこ探偵の物語です。児童向けに書かれたミステリーですが、非英語圏の英語学習者にも多く読まれています。英語表現が比較的易しい英語と「ミステリー」という組み合わせで、英語初心者から中級者の方に幅広く受け入れられる内容になっています。「とりあえず洋書を一冊読破してみたい」という方におすすめの一冊です。
"The Secret Seven" シリーズ一覧(発売順)
01 The Secret Seven
02 Secret Seven Adventure
03 Well Done Secret Seven
04 Secret Seven On Trail
05 Go Ahead Secret Seven
06 Good Work, Secret Seven
07 Secret Seven Win Through
08 Three Cheers, Secret Seven
09 Mystery Of The Skull
10 Puzzle For The Secret Seven
11 Secret Seven Fireworks
12 Good Old Secret Seven
13 Shock for the Secret Seven
14 Look Out, Secret Seven
15 Fun for the Secret Seven
Who Was/Is シリーズ
歴史上の人物や世界的な名所・建築などを紹介しているシリーズで、アメリカの小学校2年生の課題図書として使われるものです。このシリーズは100冊以上あり、人物により様々な分野の単語を学ぶことができますので、徹底的に読みこなすのもひとつのアイデアです。
"Who Was ~" シリーズ一覧①(アルファベット順:A〜C)
【A】
・Who Was A. A. Milne?
・Who Was Abigail Adams?
・Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
・Who Was Albert Einstein?
・Who Was Alex Trebek?
・Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
・Who Was Alexander Hamilton?
・Who Was Alexander the Great?
・Who Was Alfred Hitchcock?
・Who Was Amelia Earhart?
・Who Was Andrew Jackson?
・Who Was Andy Warhol?
・Who Was Anne Frank?
・Who Was Annie Oakley?
・Who Was Aretha Franklin?
【B】
・Who Was Babe Ruth?
・Who Was Beatrix Potter?
・Who Was Ben Franklin?
・Who Was Benedict Arnold?
・Who Was Betsy Ross?
・Who Was Blackbeard?
・Who Was Bob Marley?
・Who Was Booker T. Washington?
・Who Was Bruce Lee?
【C】
・Who Was Catherine the Great?
・Who Was Celia Cruz?
・Who Was Cesar Chavez?
・Who Was Charles Darwin?
・Who Was Charles Dickens?
・Who Was Charles Schulz?
・Who Was Charlie Chaplin?
・Who Was Che Guevara?
・Who Was Christopher Columbus?
・Who Was Chuck Jones?
・Who Was Clara Barton?
・Who Was Claude Monet?
・Who Was Confucius?
・Who Was Coretta Scott King?
"Who Was ~" シリーズ一覧②(アルファベット順:D〜H)
【D】
・Who Was Daniel Boone?
・Who Was David Bowie?
・Who Was Davy Crockett?
・Who Was Dr. Seuss?
・Who Was Duke Ellington?
【E】
・Who Was E. B. White?
・Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?
・Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt?
・Who Was Elvis Presley?
・Who Was Ernest Shackleton?
【F】
・Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?
・Who Was Fidel Castro?
・Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?
・Who Was Frank Sinatra?
・Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?
・Who Was Frederick Douglass?
・Who Was Frida Kahlo?
【G】
・Who Was Galileo?
・Who Was Gandhi?
・Who Was Genghis Khan?
・Who Was George Washington Carver?
・Who Was George Washington?
・Who Was Georgia O’Keeffe?
【H】
・Who Was H. J. Heinz?
・Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
・Who Was Harriet Tubman?
・Who Was Harry Houdini?
・Who Was Harvey Milk?
・Who Was Helen Keller?
・Who Was Henry Ford?
・Who Was Henry VIII?
"Who Was ~" シリーズ一覧③(アルファベット順:I〜L)
【I】
・Who Was Ida B. Wells?
・Who Was Isaac Newton?
【J】
・Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien?
・Who Was Jackie Robinson?
・Who Was Jacqueline Kennedy?
・Who Was Jacques Cousteau?
・Who Was Jane Austen?
・Who Was Jesse Owens?
・Who Was Jesus?
・Who Was Jim Henson?
・Who Was Jim Thorpe?
・Who Was Joan of Arc?
・Who Was John F. Kennedy?
・Who Was John McCain?
・Who Was Johnny Appleseed?
・Who Was Johnny Cash?
・Who Was Jules Verne?
・Who Was Julia Child?
・Who Was Juliette Gordon Low?
・Who Was Julius Caesar?
【K】
・Who Was King Tut?
【L】
・Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?
・Who Was Leif Erikson?
・Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?
・Who Was Levi Strauss?
・Who Was Lewis Carroll?
・Who Was Louis Armstrong?
・Who Was Louis Braille?
・Who Was Lucille Ball?
"Who Was ~" シリーズ一覧④(アルファベット順:M〜Q)
【M】
・Who Was Marco Polo?
・Who Was Maria Tallchief?
・Who Was Marie Antoinette?
・Who Was Marie Curie?
・Who Was Mark Twain?
・Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
・Who Was Maurice Sendak?
・Who Was Maya Angelou?
・Who Was Michelangelo?
・Who Was Milton Bradley?
・Who Was Milton Hershey?
・Who Was Mister Rogers?
・Who Was Mother Teresa?
・Who Was Muhammad Ali?
【N】
・Who Was Napoleon?
・Who Was Neil Armstrong?
・Who Was Nellie Bly?
・Who Was Nelson Mandela?
・Who Was Nikola Tesla?
・Who Was Norman Rockwell?
【P】
・Who Was P. T. Barnum?
・Who Was Pablo Picasso?
・Who Was Paul Revere?
・Who Was Pete Seeger?
・Who Was Ponce de León?
・Who Was Princess Diana?
【Q】
・Who Was Queen Elizabeth?
・Who Was Queen Victoria?
"Who Was ~" シリーズ一覧⑤(アルファベット順R〜W)
【R】
・Who Was Rachel Carson?
・Who Was Richard Nixon?
・Who Was Roald Dahl?
・Who Was Robert E. Lee?
・Who Was Robert Ripley?
・Who Was Roberto Clemente?
・Who Was Ronald Reagan?
・Who Was Rosa Parks?
・Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
【S】
・Who Was Sacagawea?
・Who Was Sally Ride?
・Who Was Sam Walton?
・Who Was Seabiscuit?
・Who Was Selena?
・Who Was Sitting Bull?
・Who Was Sojourner Truth?
・Who Was Stan Lee?
・Who Was Stephen Hawking?
・Who Was Steve Irwin?
・Who Was Steve Jobs?
・Who Was Susan B. Anthony?
【T】
・Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?
・Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
・Who Was Thomas Jefferson?
【U】
・Who Was Ulysses S. Grant?
【W】
・Who Was Walt Disney?
・Who Was Walt Whitman?
・Who Was William Shakespeare?
・Who Was Winston Churchill?
・Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
・Who Was Woodrow Wilson?
"Who Is ~" シリーズ一覧(アルファベット順)
・Who Is Barack Obama?
・Who Is Bill Gates?
・Who Is Bob Dylan?
・Who Is Bono?
・Who Is Bruce Springsteen?
・Who Is Dale Earnhardt Jr.?
・Who Is David Beckham?
・Who Is Derek Jeter?
・Who Is Dolly Parton?
・Who Is Elton John?
・Who Is George Lucas?
・Who Is Gloria Steinem?
・Who Is Hillary Clinton?
・Who Is J.K. Rowling?
・Who Is Jackie Chan?
・Who Is Jane Goodall?
・Who Is Jeff Kinney?
・Who Is Jimmy Carter?
・Who Is Judy Blume?
・Who Is LeBron James?
・Who Is Malala Yousafzai?
・Who Is Michael Jordan?
・Who Is Michelle Obama?
・Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
・Who Is Oprah Winfrey?
・Who Is Pele?
・Who Is Pope Francis?
・Who Is Queen Elizabeth II?
・Who Is R. L. Stine?
・Who Is Ralph Lauren?
・Who Is Richard Branson?
・Who Is Shaquille O’Neal?
・Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?
・Who Is Steven Spielberg?
・Who Is Stevie Wonder?
・Who Is Temple Grandin?
・Who Is the Dalai Lama?
・Who Is Wayne Gretzky?
"Who Are ~" シリーズ一覧(アルファベット順)
"Where Are/Is ~" シリーズ一覧(アルファベット順)
"Where Are ~"
・Where Are the Galapagos Islands?
・Where Are the Great Pyramids?
"Where Is ~"
・Where Is Alcatraz?
・Where Is Antarctica?
・Where Is Area 51?
・Where Is Broadway?
・Where Is Chichen Itza?
・Where Is Easter Island?
・Where Is Hollywood?
・Where Is Machu Picchu?
・Where Is Mount Everest?
・Where Is Mount Rushmore?
・Where Is Niagara Falls?
・Where Is Our Solar System?
・Where Is Stonehenge?
・Where Is the Amazon?
・Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
・Where Is the Brooklyn Bridge?
・Where Is the Colosseum?
・Where Is the Congo?
・Where Is the Eiffel Tower?
・Where Is the Empire State Building?
・Where Is the Grand Canyon?
・Where Is the Great Barrier Reef?
・Where Is the Great Wall?
・Where Is the Kremlin?
・Where Is the Mississippi River?
・Where Is the North Pole?
・Where Is the Parthenon?
・Where Is the Sahara Desert?
・Where Is the Serengeti?
・Where Is the Taj Mahal?
・Where Is the Tower of London?
・Where Is the Vatican?
・Where Is the White House?
・Where Is Walt Disney World?
・Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
・Where Are the Constellations?
"What Are/Is ~" シリーズ一覧(アルファベット順)
"What Are ~"
・What Are Castles and Knights?
・What Are the Paralympic Games?
・What Are the Summer Olympics?
・What Are the Ten Commandments?
・What Are the Winter Olympics?
"What Is ~"
・What Is a Presidential Election?
・What Is Climate Change?
・What Is Juneteenth?
・What Is LEGO?
・What Is NASA?
・What Is Nintendo?
・What Is Rock and Roll?
・What Is the AIDS Crisis?
・What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
・What Is the Constitution?
・What Is the Declaration of Independence?
・What Is the Panama Canal?
・What Is the Stanley Cup?
・What Is the Statue of Liberty?
・What Is the Super Bowl?
・What Is the Supreme Court?
・What Is the Women's Rights Movement?
・What Is the Women’s World Cup?
・What Is the World Cup?
・What Is the World Series?
"What Was/Were ~" シリーズ一覧(アルファベット順)
"What Was ~"
・What Was D-Day?
・What Was Ellis Island?
・What Was Hurricane Katrina?
・What Was Pearl Harbor?
・What Was Pompeii?
・What Was Reconstruction?
・What Was Stonewall?
・What Was the Age of Exploration?
・What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?
・What Was the Alamo?
・What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
・What Was the Berlin Wall?
・What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
・What Was the Boston Tea Party?
・What Was the First Thanksgiving?
・What Was the Gold Rush?
・What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
・What Was the Great Depression?
・What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
・What Was the Hindenburg?
・What Was the Holocaust?
・What Was the Ice Age?
・What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
・What Was the March on Washington?
・What Was the Plague?
・What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
・What Was the Titanic?
・What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
・What Was the Underground Railroad?
・What Was the Vietnam War?
・What Was the Wild West?
・What Was Woodstock?
・What Was World War I?
"What Were ~"
・What Were the Negro Leagues?
・What Were the Roaring Twenties?
"What Is the Story Of ~" シリーズ一覧(アルファベット順)
・What Is the Story of Alice in Wonderland?
・What Is the Story of Anne of Green Gables?
・What Is the Story of Batman?
・What Is the Story of Captain Kirk?
・What Is the Story of Captain Picard?
・What Is the Story of Doctor Who?
・What Is the Story of Dracula?
・What Is the Story of Ebenezer Scrooge?
・What Is the Story of Frankenstein?
・What Is the Story of Hello Kitty?
・What Is the Story of Looney Tunes?
・What Is the Story of Nancy Drew?
・What Is the Story of Scooby-Doo?
・What Is the Story of the Headless Horseman?
・What Is the Story of the Mummy?
・What Is the Story of The Wizard of Oz?
・What Is the Story of Willy Wonka?
・What Is the Story of Wonder Woman?
歴史的な事件(アメリカ同時多発テロなど)をもとに書かれたフィクションで、英語で書かれた小説に興味はあるけれどとても手が出ない、という方に最適なシリーズです。物語ですのでネイティブが使う自然な会話表現なども登場します。ナチュラルな英語表現に触れるには最適な一冊です。
"I SURVIVED" シリーズ一覧(発売順)
#1: I Survived The Sinking Of The Titanic, 1912
#2: I Survived The Shark Attacks Of 1916
#3: I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005
#4: I Survived The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor, 1941
#5: I Survived The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
#6: I Survived The Attacks Of September 11, 2001
#7: I Survived The Battle Of Gettysburg, 1863
#8: I Survived The Japanese Tsunami, 2011
#9: I Survived The Nazi Invasion, 1944
#10: I Survived The Destruction Of Pompeii, 79AD
#11: I Survived The Great Chicago Fire, 1871
#12: I Survived The Joplin Tornado, 2011
#13: I Survived The Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
#14: I Survived The Eruption Of Mount St. Helens, 1980
#15: I Survived The American Revolution, 1776
#16: I Survived The Children’s Blizzard, 1888
#17: I Survived The Attack Of The Grizzlies, 1967
#18: I Survived The Battle Of D-Day, 1944
#19: I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919
#20: I Survived The California Wildfires, 2018
"I SURVIVED True Stories" シリーズ一覧(発売順)
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"The ONE and ONLY" シリーズ一覧(発売順)
"やさしい英語で書かれたラダーシリーズ" レベル1 一覧(五十音順)