Are You Ready to Play Outside?

大吉總是緊張兮兮，小豬寶可就不一定。
小豬寶總是笑嘻嘻，大吉可就不一定。
大吉總是東操心、西操心，所以有了他，小豬寶可以很安心。

　　大吉和小豬寶是最好的朋友。

　　小豬寶等不及要趁著好天氣和大吉一起出去玩！
　　但突如其來的大雨會毀了他們的好心情嗎？

　　要不要出去玩？

　　豬寶和大吉約好要一起出去玩，可是居然下起大雨了。下雨了怎麼出去玩呢？豬寶好失望。忽然他們看見兩隻蚯蚓在雨中玩得好開心，他們決定也要試試看，在雨中跑跳蹦！他們玩得好開心，豬寶開始喜歡下雨天了，就在這時候雨又停了。失望的豬寶不知道該怎麼辦才好，大吉能想出好方法逗豬寶笑嗎？

　　Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.
　　Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
　　Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.

　　Gerald and Piggie are best friends.

　　In Are You Ready to Play Outside?, Piggie can’t wait to go play in the sunshine.  But will a rainy day ruin all the fun?

　　★本書中譯版《要不要出去玩？》由格林文化出版。

作者簡介

莫威樂 (Mo Willems)

　　莫威樂是六次艾美獎、三座凱迪克榮譽獎的得主，被紐約時報譽為「21世紀最傑出新銳作家」。作品「大吉象和小豬寶」系列，畫風簡潔又充滿童趣，數度榮登紐約時報暢銷書，其中《誰在看我們？》、《要不要出去玩？》、《有隻鳥在你頭上！》及《好想好想跟你說！》更獲得美國專為學齡前兒童選書的「蘇斯博士紀念獎」肯定，。

　　莫威樂在台灣出版的作品有《別鬧了，怪獸阿抖》和「大吉象和小豬寶」系列。

　　Mo Willems is the New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of picture books and early readers that have changed the face of children's literature. He has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions, and two of his Elephant and Piggie early readers have received a Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal. His most recent picture book is Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, of which the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books wrote: "Willems continues to be a master at conveying an amazing amount of emotion and humor using ... minimal elements" in a starred review.