Author: Eric RohmannTitle: My Friend Rabbit
Illustrator: Eric Rohmann
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Friendship
Theme: Good friends are friends no matter what happens.
Primary and secondary characters: Mouse and Rabbit
Award(s) date of publication: Caldecott, 2002
Publishing Company: Roaring Brook Press
Brief Summary and how I would use this book with students: My Friend Rabbit is about two friends, Rabbit and Mouse. Rabbit has good intentions but always end up making things worse. Rabbit is trying to get their plane as it flies around and decides that the best solution would be to get a bunch of friends to stand on top of each other until they reach the plane. Mouse on top does reach the plane and hops on board but this causes everyone else to fall. Although this was not the best solution to their problem, Mouse acknowledges that Rabbit’s intentions are always good. I could use this piece of literature in my classroom when talking about friendship and teaching children that despite their differences being a friend means accepting who another person is, no matter what.
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