28th out of 76 books
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225 voters
My Friend Rabbit
by
Eric Rohmann
When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind. From Caldecott Honor award winner Eric Rohmann comes a brand-new picture book about friends and toys and trouble, illustrated in robust, expressive prints.
My Friend Rabbit is the winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal....more
My Friend Rabbit is the winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal....more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
March 6th 2007
by Square Fish
(first published January 1st 2002)
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Synopsis
: Every child who's ever had someone slightly bigger or slightly older over to play will recognize this story about toys, trouble and friendship.
Review : Oh, it's a beautiful new toy that mouse has! Mouse's good friend Rabbit celebrates with him the joy and excitement in the new device. But, as sometimes happens, things go a bit awry and the airplane gets stuck in a very tall tree. Alas, Rabbit is there to fix the problem and brings in a wonderful selection of animals to help. The young...more
Review : Oh, it's a beautiful new toy that mouse has! Mouse's good friend Rabbit celebrates with him the joy and excitement in the new device. But, as sometimes happens, things go a bit awry and the airplane gets stuck in a very tall tree. Alas, Rabbit is there to fix the problem and brings in a wonderful selection of animals to help. The young...more
Picture book
For toddler-early elementary
Rabbit means well, but is always getting himself and Mouse into trouble. Rabbit tries to rescue Mouse's plane from a tree using a variety of animals.
The premise of the book is simple, and has certainly been done before in the world of picture books. At first, it seems that Rabbit will try one animal after another to get Mouse's plane out of the tree, but instead he piles these strangely compliant beasts into an improbable tower. In the end, it's the combin...more
For toddler-early elementary
Rabbit means well, but is always getting himself and Mouse into trouble. Rabbit tries to rescue Mouse's plane from a tree using a variety of animals.
The premise of the book is simple, and has certainly been done before in the world of picture books. At first, it seems that Rabbit will try one animal after another to get Mouse's plane out of the tree, but instead he piles these strangely compliant beasts into an improbable tower. In the end, it's the combin...more
Comments on the Story:
The story itself is also very entertaining and just generally fun. The story is something that could be told using flannel board where children could stack up all the animals and let them fall down and crash the tree into the plane. I even think that this story could just be told to children without a flannel or book because it would be fun for the children to use their imagination to see the animals getting stacked up and wonder…oh, I hope they don’t fall down!
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The story itself is also very entertaining and just generally fun. The story is something that could be told using flannel board where children could stack up all the animals and let them fall down and crash the tree into the plane. I even think that this story could just be told to children without a flannel or book because it would be fun for the children to use their imagination to see the animals getting stacked up and wonder…oh, I hope they don’t fall down!
Recommended...more
The picture style of this book reminds me of "Kittens First Full Moon". It has the same simplistic style with the really bold outlining of the picture; the main difference is that this book has so much color, while "Kittens First Full Moon" is black and white. The color choice in this story was definitely a good one. I think that using a mostly blue color for the majority of the picture and then adding the pop of color with the yellow and red on the airplane and other objects that are meant to a...more
This book follows a rabbit that seems to always get into trouble, but has good intentions and is a good friend by the end of the story. I could not stop laughing through this book because the way the rabbit tries to get the plane down was so funny. The mixture of words and pictures was genius as they brought the reader into the story. The pictures in this book are so descriptive that you could see the emotion on the mouse’s face as his friend the rabbit is causing trouble. I could actually prete...more
My Friend Rabbit is a sweet book that introduces the idea of unconditional love and friendship to young children. The mouse tells the story about his friendship with Rabbit and how "whatever he does, wherever he goes, trouble follows." Young children will enjoy the story due to all the animals, and they will continue to like the story as they move towards literacy since there are just a few words. This allows the pre-reader and early reader to feel a sense of accomplishment as they finish a book...more
Eric Rohmann's 'My Friend Rabbit' is about Mouse’s friend, Rabbit, who is very mischievous and tends to get into a lot of sticky situations. The illustrations provide great context for the story line. They depict Rabbit throwing the airplane into the tree and running to get each of his animal friends, big and small, to help get it down which only ends up turning into a big mess. Without the illustrations, Eric Rohmann’s story would be much less entertaining and most likely not award-winning. How...more
Genre: Children's picture books - "other
Summary: My Friend Rabbit is a Caldecott Medal winner. is about an optimistic rabbit that seems to find himself in "trouble." In this story, he accidentally throws his friend a mouse with his airplane into a tall tree. Rabbit quickly devises a plan to get the airplane back.
a) This book has a very optimistic tone. The illustrations really highlight rabbits worry free demeanor. No matter what the “trouble” may be; rabbit does not get discouraged. He is depi...more
Summary: My Friend Rabbit is a Caldecott Medal winner. is about an optimistic rabbit that seems to find himself in "trouble." In this story, he accidentally throws his friend a mouse with his airplane into a tall tree. Rabbit quickly devises a plan to get the airplane back.
a) This book has a very optimistic tone. The illustrations really highlight rabbits worry free demeanor. No matter what the “trouble” may be; rabbit does not get discouraged. He is depi...more
1. Contemporary
2. Rabbit and mouse are playing with an airplane that gets stuck in a tree. Mouse describes rabbit as his friend who means well but always seems to find trouble. The story is about how they work to get the plane unstuck and are okay with rabbits constant trouble because he is a friend who means well.
3. A. Rabbit and mouse are playing with a toy as many friends would do. When it gets stuck, they work to try to get it unstuck, even if it means rabbit may bring trouble. Some people...more
2. Rabbit and mouse are playing with an airplane that gets stuck in a tree. Mouse describes rabbit as his friend who means well but always seems to find trouble. The story is about how they work to get the plane unstuck and are okay with rabbits constant trouble because he is a friend who means well.
3. A. Rabbit and mouse are playing with a toy as many friends would do. When it gets stuck, they work to try to get it unstuck, even if it means rabbit may bring trouble. Some people...more
Picture Book Critique #6
My Friend Rabbit
By: Eric Rohmann
1. Picture Book Genre: Contemporary Picture Book
2. Brief Summary: This fun and exciting book illustrates the story of a friend Mouse and Rabbit in which the Rabbit, although filled with good intentions, often finds himself followed by trouble! The Mouse and Rabbit are playing with a brand new airplane when Rabbit gets it stuck in a high tree. Quickly coming up with a plan the mouse pulls, carries and stacks a number of animals on top of one...more
My Friend Rabbit
By: Eric Rohmann
1. Picture Book Genre: Contemporary Picture Book
2. Brief Summary: This fun and exciting book illustrates the story of a friend Mouse and Rabbit in which the Rabbit, although filled with good intentions, often finds himself followed by trouble! The Mouse and Rabbit are playing with a brand new airplane when Rabbit gets it stuck in a high tree. Quickly coming up with a plan the mouse pulls, carries and stacks a number of animals on top of one...more
My Friend Rabbit is a useful tool that any reader (young or old) could relate with. Friendship is a subject we encounter everyday and tends to be something people can struggle with. Am I being a good friend? My friend is being so annoying! These are issues we face with friendship. Although Mouse's friend, Rabbit, causes a lot of trouble, Mouse realizes that the choices Rabbit makes are out of the kindness of his heart. That shows Mouse is a good friend to Rabbit as well because Mouse could just...more
My friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann is an amazing picture book with a few lines of writing here and there. This has become one of my top favorite children books that I enjoy reading. This was actually the first time that I read this book, and I certainly enjoyed. The first time I just went through it fast, the second time I placed close attention to the beautiful pictures in the book. You can't miss those pictures, they are just eye catching and must be looked through, it just makes the reading mor...more
“My Rabbit Friend” is about a mouse that lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand new airplane. Rabbit means well but he is much bigger than Mouse and when he tries to launch the plane it ends up in a tree, too high to reach. Rabbit tells Mouse not to worry since he has an idea. Rabbit gathers together lost animals and gets them to climb on each other. A tall tree of animals results with rhino on top of elephant, hippo on top of rhino, antelope on top of hippo, crocodile on top of antel...more
By looking at the front cover of this book it looks cute, adventurous and a bit silly! As I was reading this book I came across pages that didn’t have words and at first this surprised me but the illustrations on these pages clearly show what words and actions are happening! In the beginning, Rabbit threw Mouse's plane too hard and Mouse fell out. Wherever Rabbit goes, trouble follows. Rabbit says he has an idea and he gets many animals and stacks them on top of each other to try to get Mouse's...more
This is an enjoyable, funny book to read to children. The characters in the book are easy for children to relate to. Rabbit is always getting into trouble when using Mouse’s toys, but Mouse keeps sharing with his friend. Not only can children empathize with Mouse’s predicament, especially if they have that problem playing with an older sibling or a friend. It also helps them to develop moral reasoning when they consider if Mouse should keep sharing toys with Rabbit. This is a lesson about sharin...more
My Friend Rabbit is a perfect example of a classic picture book. The story begins with a short, foreshadowed passage regarding Rabbit's adventurous, mischievous nature: "My friend Rabbit means well. But whatever he does, wherever he goes, trouble follows." After this introduction, almost half of the pages in the book have no text at all - the story unfolds through the book's vibrant illustrations. Without explicit captions, the reader is free to imagine their own thoughts and follow their own un...more
Perhaps the beauty in this picture book story is the universality of the experiences shared by Mouse and Rabbit. Because Mouse loves his friend, he puts up with him, even when he causes trouble. Although Rabbit means well, his solutions to problems often lead to even more problems, and nothing ever goes as he plans. Young and older readers can relate to the story because so many of them have friends just like Rabbit. This simply told tale has a timeless quality about it, and the hand-colored rel...more
This book has amazing illustrations. It is no wonder it won an award. It is a book with very few words and mainly uses pictures to tell the story. I am personally not a huge fan of books like this, which is why I gave it three out of five stars. I prefer books with a story being told through words and many pictures.
This storybook was about a rabbit and a mouse that are best friends. Rabbit seems to always have the best intentions, but always ends up messing things up or adding to the trouble; a...more
This storybook was about a rabbit and a mouse that are best friends. Rabbit seems to always have the best intentions, but always ends up messing things up or adding to the trouble; a...more
My Friend Rabbit
By Eric Rohmann
Genre: Concept
My Friend Rabbit is a story of a mischievous rabbit and his friend mouse. Mouse loves his friend rabbit but poor rabbit always finds trouble no matter what he does. Ride along with mouse on the adventures of My Friend Rabbit.
Critique:
A. The story is comical. The little rabbit tries and tries to do the right thing. The drawings in the story are great. The bold lines and colors are wonderful.
B. Eric Rohmann uses a lot of expression with his animal cha...more
By Eric Rohmann
Genre: Concept
My Friend Rabbit is a story of a mischievous rabbit and his friend mouse. Mouse loves his friend rabbit but poor rabbit always finds trouble no matter what he does. Ride along with mouse on the adventures of My Friend Rabbit.
Critique:
A. The story is comical. The little rabbit tries and tries to do the right thing. The drawings in the story are great. The bold lines and colors are wonderful.
B. Eric Rohmann uses a lot of expression with his animal cha...more
1. Controlled Vocabulary
2. An adventurous rabbit and a more reserved mouse play with a plane until rabbit accidentally throws it into a tree. Mouse watches as rabbit gathers every animal he can find to try and reach the plane, but like many things rabbit does, things don't always end well.
3. A. This book is an excellent example of a book being current.
B. This is a book about friendship and playing well with others and a little bit about thinking about your plans before you carry them out. Mous...more
2. An adventurous rabbit and a more reserved mouse play with a plane until rabbit accidentally throws it into a tree. Mouse watches as rabbit gathers every animal he can find to try and reach the plane, but like many things rabbit does, things don't always end well.
3. A. This book is an excellent example of a book being current.
B. This is a book about friendship and playing well with others and a little bit about thinking about your plans before you carry them out. Mous...more
1. Genre: Other- animals
2. Summary: Everywhere Rabbit goes, trouble always follows. Watch as Rabbit and Mouse lose their airplane and have to find a way to get it back. What kind of trouble is Rabbit going to get into this time?
3.Critique:
a.) The illustrations in this book are really good. I love the cartoon look of the pictures and the vivid use of colors. The story is so fun and it’s the illustrations that make it this way because there are few words in the book.
b.) I love how little words the...more
2. Summary: Everywhere Rabbit goes, trouble always follows. Watch as Rabbit and Mouse lose their airplane and have to find a way to get it back. What kind of trouble is Rabbit going to get into this time?
3.Critique:
a.) The illustrations in this book are really good. I love the cartoon look of the pictures and the vivid use of colors. The story is so fun and it’s the illustrations that make it this way because there are few words in the book.
b.) I love how little words the...more
Summary: When best friends, Rabbit and Mouse play with Mouse’s new airplane, Rabbit lodges the plane in a tree top. Rabbit’s outrageous idea to dislodge the plane leads to the anger and resentment of the other animals, resulting in a daring rescue attempt. a) The spirited and colorful illustrations effectively tell the majority of this delightful story through mood, color, and creativity. b) The colorful illustrations communicate the emotions and expressions of the animals. When Mouse shows his...more
Genre: Picture Book - Controlled Vocabulary
Summary: This is book is about rabbit and mouse. They are two friends who enjoy being together. Unfortunately, rabbit always seems to get mouse caught in a precarious situation.
Critique: (a)This book finds its strength in character development. The reader learns about mouse and rabbit and what roles they play in their relationship.
(b)We learn about the characters from their actions and brief commentary. Rabbit is the adventuresome, outgoing character...more
Summary: This is book is about rabbit and mouse. They are two friends who enjoy being together. Unfortunately, rabbit always seems to get mouse caught in a precarious situation.
Critique: (a)This book finds its strength in character development. The reader learns about mouse and rabbit and what roles they play in their relationship.
(b)We learn about the characters from their actions and brief commentary. Rabbit is the adventuresome, outgoing character...more
1. Genre: Controlled Vocabulary—the title contains few words and many words or sentences repeat
2. Summary: Rabbit and mouse are the best of friends but rabbit always seems to lead the duo into trouble. Despite the troubles they face rabbit keeps a positive attitude and always finds a quick solution to the problem, keeping their friendship above all.
3. Critique:
a. I thought the lesson of this story proved to be the greatest aspect of the story.
b. Rabbit, although a troublesome friend always rem...more
2. Summary: Rabbit and mouse are the best of friends but rabbit always seems to lead the duo into trouble. Despite the troubles they face rabbit keeps a positive attitude and always finds a quick solution to the problem, keeping their friendship above all.
3. Critique:
a. I thought the lesson of this story proved to be the greatest aspect of the story.
b. Rabbit, although a troublesome friend always rem...more
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann is a story of friendship, especially concerning loyal friends who mean well, but always bring trouble. That is the situation with Mouse's friend Rabbit, who may remind some readers of bigger or older friends they may have had.
The text is minimal and descriptive of the action. The illustrations are outstanding and expand on the text, particularly the wordless section where Rabbit springs his cunning plan to retrieve the toy plane from the tree. With Rabbit as the...more
The text is minimal and descriptive of the action. The illustrations are outstanding and expand on the text, particularly the wordless section where Rabbit springs his cunning plan to retrieve the toy plane from the tree. With Rabbit as the...more
I think we can all put our selfs in the shoes of either Mouse or Rabbit or both. At some point in our lives we have have all experience a friendship like Rabbit and Mouse have. No matter the imperfections of our friends we still love them.A character that rabbit reminds me of is Scooby-Doo from the cartoon. Scooby-Doo is always getting himself and his friends into trouble but they still love him. In this story Rabbit is playing with Mouse's toy plane. The plane ends up in a tree. Rabbit comes up...more
My Friend Rabbit offers children a way to create their own text to the story. While the book does have some text, it allows children to detail the events with their own imagination on the pages that do not have text. The illustrations speak for themselves in this Caldecott Award winning book. Rabbit, Mouse’s best friend, is always getting into trouble no matter what he does. As the book states, he does mean well. I could imagine a young reader hearing this story and laughing along at the picture...more
"My Friend Rabbit" is a remarkable story of two friends, a mouse and a rabbit.
As Mouse points out from the beginning, "My friend Rabbit means well. But whatever he does, wherever he goes, trouble follows". That's Mouse's nice way of saying that Rabbit is double trouble. In this story, Rabbit has managed to get Mouse's brand new airplane stuck in a tree. Quick as a wink Rabbit's off with a, "Not to worry, Mouse. I've got an idea!" thrown over his shoulder. Before you know it he has tugged, dragge...more
As Mouse points out from the beginning, "My friend Rabbit means well. But whatever he does, wherever he goes, trouble follows". That's Mouse's nice way of saying that Rabbit is double trouble. In this story, Rabbit has managed to get Mouse's brand new airplane stuck in a tree. Quick as a wink Rabbit's off with a, "Not to worry, Mouse. I've got an idea!" thrown over his shoulder. Before you know it he has tugged, dragge...more
1. Genre: Contemporary
2. Summary: A squirrel gets his airplane stuck in a tree and his friend the rabbit has a great idea how to get it. His friend Rabbit’s unorthodox solution has the whole forest of animals (and jungle) irate with him but he does get the airplane loose.
A. Area of Comment: Framing
B. The author uses framing in the book in order to show motion and to show the reader the enormity of Rabbit’s solution. Each open spread of both pages is the whole illustration and is framed in thick,...more
2. Summary: A squirrel gets his airplane stuck in a tree and his friend the rabbit has a great idea how to get it. His friend Rabbit’s unorthodox solution has the whole forest of animals (and jungle) irate with him but he does get the airplane loose.
A. Area of Comment: Framing
B. The author uses framing in the book in order to show motion and to show the reader the enormity of Rabbit’s solution. Each open spread of both pages is the whole illustration and is framed in thick,...more
MY FRIEND RABBIT
1. Genre: Picture Book—Contemporary
2. Summary: The book is about two friends, rabbit and mouse, who love to play together. However, things continue to go wrong. In the meantime, rabbit always seems to come up with elaborate plans to get them out of a jam which only seems to make the situation worse!
3a. This book won a Caldecott Medal in 2003.
3b. The story is interesting and humorous, but the real treat is viewing the illustrations. While detail is not the strong suit of the illus...more
1. Genre: Picture Book—Contemporary
2. Summary: The book is about two friends, rabbit and mouse, who love to play together. However, things continue to go wrong. In the meantime, rabbit always seems to come up with elaborate plans to get them out of a jam which only seems to make the situation worse!
3a. This book won a Caldecott Medal in 2003.
3b. The story is interesting and humorous, but the real treat is viewing the illustrations. While detail is not the strong suit of the illus...more
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Eric Rohmann won the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit, and a Caldecott Honor for Time Flies. He is also the author and illustrator of Bone Dog, Clara and Asha, A Kitten Tale, and The Cinder-Eyed Cats, among other books for children. He has illustrated many other books, including Last Song, based on a poem by James Guthrie, and has created book jackets for a number of novels, including His Dark...more
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