Title: My Friend Rabbit
Author: Eric Rohmann
Illustrator: Eric Rohmann
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Illustrator: Eric Rohmann
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Year Published: 2002
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Caldecott
Genre: Caldecott
Reading Level: Assisted Reader
Reading Interest Level: Pre-School – Kindergarten
Topics: Rabbits, Airplanes, Rhinoceros, Squirrel, Mouse.
Reading Interest Level: Pre-School – Kindergarten
Topics: Rabbits, Airplanes, Rhinoceros, Squirrel, Mouse.
Summary: Rabbit and Mouse are the best of friends. Rabbit was playing with Mouse's to airplane and got stuck in a tree. He gathers tons of animals, anything form a rhinoceros to a squirrel to get his best friends airplane down. The finally stack over 15 animals on top of each other to get the airplane down and right as Rabbit and Mouse get to the top the animals start to lose their balance and fall over. Mouse finally gets the airplane. They fly around until they get it stuck again. But knowing Rabbit, he decides he has another great plane.
Extension Activity: The class will make paper airplanes and reenact the story.
