Class Critters

『Class Critters』はKathryn Holmesの児童書。

ATRI編集部2023/06/03
紹介獣化イヌカメネズミ小説キャサリン・ホルムズ

　ノレル先生が担任を務める二年生のクラスは「特別」なクラスだった。
　このクラスに転校してきたタリー・タトルは、殻に閉じこもりがちな性格の女の子だった。
　ところが、突然タリーはカメに変身してしまい、「本当に」殻に閉じこもってしまう。
　殻に閉じこもる良さや、慣れないカメの姿で踏まれる恐怖など、カメとしての描写がよく織り交ぜられている。
　シリーズは2023年時点で3冊出ており、ダックスフンドになる男の子、ネズミになる女の子のエピソードがそれぞれつづられている。

Tally Tuttle Turns into a Turtle (Class Critters #1) (English Edition)

It’s Tally Tuttle’s first day of second grade, and she’s so nervous that she feels like she ate butterflies for breakfast! On top of moving to a new town and new school where she doesn’t know anyone, everyone starts teasing her when her full name, Tallulah, is revealed during roll call. She just wishes she could retreat into a shell . . . Then all of a sudden, the desks and her classmates around her seem enormous, and Tally is shell-shocked to discover that she’s actually turned into a turtle! She’d heard that Mrs. Norrell’s class was special, but she hadn’t expected this. Tally likes having a shell to hide in, but there are other parts of turtle life—like the fear of being stepped on—that aren’t exactly ideal. And once she’s tired of hiding, how can she change back into a girl? Tally will have to forge her own transformation back to herself and come out of her shell—both literally and figuratively!

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