My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann is a wonderfully illustrated picture book. It is the 2003 Caldecott Award Winner for good reason and I personally love the pictures. This book has very few words because the pictures tell the story without a problem.
Mouse gets a new toy airplane as a gift and his best friend rabbit proceeds to get it stuck high up in a tree. Mouse thinks Rabbit means well, but he is always causing trouble. The fun part of this story is how Rabbit proposes to get the airplane out of the tree. Rabbit gets every animal he can find to stand on each other’s backs to create a VERY tall platform for mouse to be able to reach the plane. He gets an elephant, a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, an alligator, a bear and several others to participate.
The pictures of Rabbit getting these animals to help are hilarious. The animals must not want to help of their own accord so Rabbit is dragging each of them to the tree where the plane is. It is very comical, especially for kids, to see a small rabbit carrying or dragging these other large animals.
My students at school love this book and they think it is very funny. My two year old son enjoys looking at the pictures too! The book jacket tells the reader that the pictures are hand colored relief prints, which I am not entirely knowledgeable of, but they are amazing. Each picture is done in bright, bold colors and they seem to jump out of the page at you. I had to look through this many times just to be able to see all of the details that the pictures incorporate. I would definitely recommend this book to others, especially younger children in first and second grade, because I think they would enjoy it immensely.
Mouse gets a new toy airplane as a gift and his best friend rabbit proceeds to get it stuck high up in a tree. Mouse thinks Rabbit means well, but he is always causing trouble. The fun part of this story is how Rabbit proposes to get the airplane out of the tree. Rabbit gets every animal he can find to stand on each other’s backs to create a VERY tall platform for mouse to be able to reach the plane. He gets an elephant, a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, an alligator, a bear and several others to participate.
The pictures of Rabbit getting these animals to help are hilarious. The animals must not want to help of their own accord so Rabbit is dragging each of them to the tree where the plane is. It is very comical, especially for kids, to see a small rabbit carrying or dragging these other large animals.
My students at school love this book and they think it is very funny. My two year old son enjoys looking at the pictures too! The book jacket tells the reader that the pictures are hand colored relief prints, which I am not entirely knowledgeable of, but they are amazing. Each picture is done in bright, bold colors and they seem to jump out of the page at you. I had to look through this many times just to be able to see all of the details that the pictures incorporate. I would definitely recommend this book to others, especially younger children in first and second grade, because I think they would enjoy it immensely.
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