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Advice to Little Girls

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マーク・トウェインが当時の道徳教本や礼儀作法書を風刺した短編エッセイです。
少女たちに向けた「忠告」という形式を取りながら、実際にはその逆を推奨する皮肉に満ちた内容です。

トウェインは、少女たちが直面しがちな状況（教師への反抗、兄弟との争い、他人の持ち物への羨望、年長者への態度など）に対して、一見真面目な助言を述べた後で、巧妙にひねくれた解決策を提案します。

「お兄さんに泥を投げつけてはいけません。……代わりに、彼をだまして取引をするのが賢明です。」
「年配の方には敬意を払いましょう。ただし、向こうが先に無礼を働いた場合に限ります。」

悪戯を奨励するような逆説的な「アドバイス」は、当時の社会規範や教育の押しつけに対する痛烈な風刺となっています。少女たちに盲目的な服従ではなく、独立した思考を促すメッセージが込められていると解釈されることもあります。

マーク・トウェインが1865年に執筆した短いユーモラスなエッセイを基にした絵本です。

Advice to Little Girls
by Mark Twain (Author)
Illustrated by:Vladimir Radunsky
Format:Hardcover 24 pages
Publisher:Enchanted Lion Books
Imprint:Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN:9781592701292
Published:18 Apr 2013
Weight:246g
Dimensions:176 x 242 x 10 (mm)
Pub. Country:United States

Description
You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind parents that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their little whims, and put up with their little foibles until they get to crowding you too much. When Mark Twain wrote the sparky short story "Advice to Little Girls" in 1865, he probably didn't mean for it to be shown to them.

Or maybe he did, since we all know Twain was a rascal. Now, author and illustrator Vladimir Radunsky has created a picture book based on Twain's text that adds all the right outlandish touches. Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L.

Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain. He wrote two major classics of American literature, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur, and inventor.

Whether or not it was Mark Twain's actual intention for little girls to read this humorous short story, it's clear that he did not talk down to children, but rather expected them to stretch themselves in order to grasp sophisticated, adult meaning. Vladimir Radunsky has illustrated many books to great acclaim. Recently, Radunsky has been moving farther and farther away from the traditional picture book and into other more innovative forms.

The most recent example is a work published by HarperCollins of hip-hop poetry for children, where the graffiti art has migrated from the walls into a printed book. Radunsky has published more than thirty books for children, mostly in the United States. Many of them were translated and published in France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan.