Module 3: My Friend Rabbit

Title: My Friend Rabbit

Author/Illustrator: Eric Rohhmann

Summary:
My friend rabbit is a beautiful well illustrated book which the author/illustrator have truly a unique style that tells a story mostly by the pictures itself. Mouse is telling how his friend rabbit always wants to help but always trouble follows where ever he goes and whatever he does. An airplane is stuck on a branch of a tree so rabbit decides to get it down by having all his animal friends help by having them stand on each other so they can reach the airplane. Just before mouse reaches the plane, the animals come clashing down and they were all angry with rabbit. Mouse understands as he tries to tell the animals that rabbit means well, and that they're still friends.

Biography:
Rohmann, E. (2003). My Friend Rabbit. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

My Impression:
My Friend Rabbit is one of my favorite because I love how the illustrator drew the animal pictures. Although it doesn't have too much text, the illustrations itself can tell the story of what is going to happen. The illustrators detail drawing expresses how the animals feel with facial expressions that each one has, especially during the part of when they are falling down. I love how rabbit is trying so hard to help his friend mouse, the strength that he has as he carries all the animals stacking them up on the other really shows how much he cares for his friend. A good example would be my grand children helping me to clean. Whenever they come for a visit, I would let them play in the family room until its time for dinner. They already know that when I come down to that room they are suppose to start cleaning up. Of course I would wait and see what they would do first but instead they wait until I start cleaning than they follow. By the time I come around to where they started its like nothings being done because they leave a trail of toys so they could come back and pick them up again. Why? so they would go back and play again and not have to clean up.

Professional Review:

School Library Journal ( May 01, 2002; 9780761324201 )

PreS-Gr 1-A simple story about Rabbit and Mouse, who, despite Rabbit's penchant for trouble, are friends. When Rabbit launches his toy airplane (with Mouse in the pilot seat at takeoff) and it gets stuck in a tree, he convinces his friend that he will come up with a plan to get it down. He does so by stacking animals on top of one another (beginning with an elephant and a rhinoceros) until they are within reach of the toy. The double-page, hand-colored relief prints with heavy black outlines are magnificent, and children will enjoy the comically expressive pictures of the animals before and after their attempt to extract the plane. The text is minimal; it's the illustrations that are the draw here.-Kristin de Lacoste, South Regional Public Library, Pembroke Pines, FL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review of the book My Friend Rabbit retrieved from Bowker Books in Print.

Library Use:
Librarian will use this book by having the students work in groups.  Each students in groups create a list of words putting them in complete sentences, and explaining why animals in the story are important and how are they able to assist people.

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