My Friend Rabbit - Softcover

When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind.

Eric Rohmann won the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit, and a Caldecott Honor for TimeFlies. He is also the author and illustrator of Clara and Asha, A Kitten Tale, andThe Cinder-Eyed Cats, among other books for children. He has illustrated many other books, includingLast Song, based on a poem by James Guthrie, and has created book jackets for a number of novels, includingHis Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman.
Rohmann was born in Riverside, Illinois in 1957. He grew up in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago. As a boy, he played Little League baseball, read comic books, and collected rocks and minerals, insects, leaves, and animal skulls.
Rohmann has his BS in Art and an MS in Studio Art from Illinois State University, and an MFA in Printmaking/Fine Bookmaking from Arizona State University. He also studied Anthropology and Biology. He taught printmaking, painting, and fine bookmaking at Belvoir Terrace in Massachusettes and introductory drawing, fine bookmaking, and printmaking at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.
He lives in a suburb of Chicago.