Beautiful Bananas

By Elizabeth Laird, Illustrated by Liz Pichon (Peachtree – 2004)                                 

Beatrice, a young African girl, sets out to take a gift of banana to her grandfather. Along the way, Beatrice encounters some animals and each one causes an accident to lose her gift to grandfather. Then the animal replaces the lost stuff with a new one, and the result is that Batrice gets a beautiful bunch of banana as same as the first one she had.

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アフリカの少女ベアトリスは、お祖父さんへプレゼントのバナナの房を届けるために出かけた。途中で出会った動物達の不注意からプレゼントを失う度に、動物は代わりの品物を見つけてくれた。結局最後には、最初と同じバナナの房をベアトリスは手に入れることが出来た。