Editorial Review
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.
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Customer Reviews
Not bad 
2008-08-24
I love the artwork in this book - very colorful, very well-done.
The storyline is great too - friends stick together, even if one of them is always getting you into scrapes.
I do find it a little awkward to read because, of course, there is no text for several pages in the middle of the book. At this point one has to ask the children to describe the action, but I suppose that's an important pre-reading skill anyway.
Check this one out before buying it.
beautiful illustrations! 
2008-05-25
my 19 month old daughter loves the drawings in this...there are very few words but she gets the story from the drawings...similar set up like "good night gorilla" in terms of the pictures telling more of story than the actual words
great book for prediction 2008-04-09
I went to an author seminar in Bellingham, Washington and was so excited to share this book with some of my students. We all liked the illustratuons and the students had a great time trying to guess what the next animal was going to be. I used this book with Kinder kids, 1st and 2nd graders. I am very interested to check out some of his other works.
The Importance of Friendship 2008-04-08
I have just finished studying Modern Fantasy picture books in a Children's Literature class at Louisiana State University. One of the books our professor had us look at was "My Friend Rabbit," by Eric Rohmann. After reading the book, I purchased it for my 5-year-old cousin. I did this because it is a great book to use when teaching young children about sharing and the importance of friendship. Mouse's loyalty to his friend Rabbit is certainly something all of us, young and old, should aspire to emulate. I would use this book in a pre-school or kindergarten classroom. I would not use it after grade 2. I think by that time, children would be bored by it. They would lose interest in it's vivid illustrations and colorful characters, which are things that younger children are attracted to. It is a great book for a read-aloud, because it's illustrations are so interesting. I gave this book a 5-star rating because I truly believe it is one of the best picture books on the market.
My Friend Rabbit 
2008-02-28
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann is so funny. Rabbit and Mouse are friends forever and Mouse's little airplane gets stuck in a tree and he cannot get it down. So Rabbit has an idea to get Mouse's plane. Rabbit brought an elephant, a rhinoceros, a hippo, a duck and her four babies, a deer, a squirrel, an alligator, and a bear to pile up high to get Mouse's airplane. The squirrel lifted Mouse up to reach the plane and then all of the animals fell. And Mouse got stuck with his airplane. The animals were mad at Rabbit. But Mouse is still Rabbit's friend because Rabbit tried to help Mouse get his airplane. I would like other people to get this book because this is a nice book and funny book.
Good way to start talking about certain issues 2007-11-30
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 and its predecessor 2007-01-22
I came across "My Friend Rabbit" recently and found it to be a charming, illustration-driven tale. However I also felt disappointed because of its extreme similarity in theme and execution (if not tone) to one of my children's favorite books "One Seal". Published three years before "My Friend Rabbit", "One Seal" tells the charming illustration-driven tale of a child whose kite slips free while flying at the beach. Page by page a variety of animals, beginning with one seal, happily come to help. They build an improbable tower by standing one another until the runaway kite can be reached. It also has the two page turn-the-book-sideways center piece tower and the cyclic ending. Any of the reviewers who fault "My Friend Rabbit" will also fault "One Seal" but I urge anyone who enjoyed "My Friend Rabbit" to flip through "One Seal" at a library or book store and see for yourself.
Fun; a great addition 2006-10-24
I was online looking for new books when I came across this one that we've had for few years-- had to make sure there was a review for it. Of course there's many good ones & one bad. Huh, I said; what's bad about it? I must say I can't agree with the reviewer. 1,) I am happy it won a award for illustrations, but I usually go by my own taste & I think the wood cut style is great. whether it was deserving of an award or not, I think anyone will find the images pleasing; my daughter & I especially liked having to turn the book sideways to see all the animals piled on top of each other. 2,)As for text & the child being able to "read" on their own, I found my daughter was able to recall the gist of the story & she'd make up her own sometimes. And not sure why they though this wasn't a good "bed time book". Too short? not about sleep? Not sure what that meant-- I think it's a fine anytime book. Anyway, Most reviewers found it great & I am sure there're some kids out there that this book just won't call to, but the friendship of the rabbit & mouse is a good lesson and the piling up of the animals is silly. My daughter enjoyed it over & over again. It's a fun book for ages 1-3 I'd say, since the text is short; by 4 yrs old the child may be on to longer text, but it's still a fun book for 4 yr olds.
Rabbit Pulls A Rabbit Out of His Hat! 2006-07-15
There's something very old-fashioned about Eric Rohmann's Caldecott-winning illustrations in "My Friend Rabbit." The think outlined forms, simple black eyes, and wide-open compositions recall the best of early Disney and other period animation. Rohmann's every character and nuance is well conceived; for example, the soft, lightly mottled blue-grey background is a reassuring constant in a wild tale full of high-flying twists and turns. Reading the book flap, I discovered that Rohmann used "hand-colored relief prints"; Rohmann's mastery of this technique apparently produced the luminous, vintage animation look.
The story line is simple: "Rabbit" has this grand idea for his friend "Mouse" to fly a plane. When the mouse-plane crashes into a treetop, Rabbit tells his friend: "Not to Worry, Mouse. I've got an idea!" Quick like a bunny, he hops off, and--pushing, pulling, and lifting--he begins collecting a parade of animals, including an elephant, a hippo (similar in shape to the ones famously in "Fantasia"), a deer, an alligator, and a resentful duck and ducklings! This is all visually rich, as hyperkinetic Rabbit hoists some of the larger animals over his head, assembling [turn the page, and look sideways...!] a tower of animals. With the rhino on the bottom looking particularly upset, Mouse climbs the leaning tower, but just as we see him reaching towards the tree that ate his airplane [turn the page]--the animals come tumbling down in a flurry of action and color, their expressions captured perfectly by Rohmann. The next line tells all, "The animals were not happy."
As the glaring animals look increasingly menacing, Mouse swoops down in the (surprise! --Mouse must have successfully jumped to the tree) just-retrieved plane to rescue his friend. Now that was a close one! Rohmann finishes with Mouse's thoughts about the Wild One; perhaps this is how Badger, Mole, and River Rat tolerated Toad's madder moments. Mouse concludes, simply and without adult adornment: "But Rabbit means well. And he is my friend." As the two fly off and crash again into a tree, Mouse will need this acceptance, because Rabbit once again has "an idea." With a classic look, and a story that's a model of engaging simplicity, this is a superb and worthy book.
My Friend Rabbit is great! 2006-02-27
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann is a really funny book to read. 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 a lot of animals and stacks them on top of each other to try to get Mouse's plane from out of the tree. The animals all fall but Mouse was hanging on to the plane and he gets the plane out of the tree. Then Mouse takes Rabbit for a ride on his plane because Rabbit is Mouse's best friend.
