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* Caldecott Medal 수상작
* Parents’ Choice Recommended
* National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Award
* An Oprah.com “Kids Reading List” Selection


"Time Flies By"로 Caldecott상을 수상한 Eric Rohmann의 세번째 그림책입니다. 그림은 윤곽선을 분명하게 진하게 그려 강하고 역동적으로 느껴집니다.

처음에 마우스(Mouse)의 나레이터로 시작됩니다. 내 친구 토끼(Rabbit)은 참 좋은 친구입니다. 하지만 무엇을 하든 어디서든 문제를 일으킵니다. 저런! 비행기가 나무에 걸렸어요! 하지만 내 친구 토끼는 걱정하지 말라며 좋은 생각이 있다고 합니다. 토끼는 코끼리, 코뿔소, 하마, 악어, 사슴, 곰, 어미 오리와 새끼 오리를 끌거나 들어서 데려옵니다(정말 황당하죠? 작은 토끼가 큰 동물들을 번쩍번쩍 드는 모습이 재밌습니다.). 그리고는 동물들을 하나둘 탑을 쌓습니다. 마지막으로 다람쥐가 마우스를 들어 비행기를 잡게 했는데.... 공든 탑이 무너지네요... 동물들이 와르르 땅으로 떨어집니다. 동물들이 화가 났어요... 하지만 내 친구 토끼는 정말로 내 친구에요. 비행기를 타고 날아가는 나를 위해 비행기에 매달렸거든요. 비록 토끼나 내 눈을 가려 앞이 보이지 않아 비행기가 돌고 있지만 말이죠. 토끼가 어디에서 무엇을 하든 어디에 있든 문제를 일으키지만... 그래도 나의... 내 친구랍니다!!!

토끼와 마우스의 진한 우정을 우스꽝스러운 에피소드와 인상적인 그림으로 잘 표현해 냈습니다.






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Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 031236752X
ISBN-13: 9780312367527
책 크기: 26.5cm x 20cm



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From the Publisher
When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind. Of course, Rabbit has a solution -- but when Rabbit sets out to solve a problem, even bigger problems follow. Every child who's ever had someone slightly bigger or slightly older over to play will recognize this story about toys and trouble and friendship. Eric Rohmann's third picture book is illustrated with robust, wonderfully expressive hand-colored relief prints -- the perfect vehicle for a simple, heartfelt tale about childhood.


Publishers Weekly
After the hero gets his friend Mouse's airplane stuck in a tree, he goes to great lengths to retrieve it, in this Caldecott Medal winner. In PW's words, "This gentle lesson in patience and loyalty, balanced on the back of a hilarious set of illustrations, will leave young readers clamoring for repeat readings."


Children's Literature
You can pretty much guess the story from the first page in My Friend Rabbit. The narrator, a small brown mouse, tells us that his friend Rabbit, "means well. But whatever he does, wherever he goes, trouble follows." After Rabbit launches mouse's airplane into a tree, he drags a cast of creatures ten times his size into a ridiculous pile. Then he mounts the animal mountain to retrieve mouse's plane. Unlike many Caldecotts, this year's award honors a book for young children. And Rohmann got it right in terms of this audience. Rabbit has the silly slapstick humor that young listeners find sublime. A three-year-old will giggle when rabbit hauls the huge elephant, or hoists the fat purple hippo. In this book of few words, the "trouble follows" line is repeated three times, giving young children a place to participate. In terms of illustration, the colored wood-block prints are simple, the backgrounds clear, and page layouts dramatize the story with interesting perspectives and compositions. You have to turn the book to view the climax, a vertical rendering of the pile of precariously balanced animals. The animals' faces lend a strong feeling tone. Thankfully, messages are buried in this book which accents humor instead of moral. But the pictures and words provide comfort for children viewed as troublesome, and offer a strong argument for sticking with colorful, unique playmates.


School Library Journal
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.


Kirkus Reviews
Best known for fluid, superbly realistic oil paintings, Rohmann (Prairie Train, 1999, etc) switches to thick-lined colored woodcuts and a simpler pictorial style for this nearly wordless, engagingly wacky episode. After carelessly throwing little Mouse's airplane up into a tree, Rabbit finds a unique way to reach it. ("Not to worry, Mouse. I've got an idea!") Industrious, if not too practical, he drags in a reluctant bear, a crocodile, a purple hippo, and other animals, then stacks them atop a wobbly-legged elephant. Great is the inevitable fall thereof, but Mouse and airplane are reunited, and Mouse, being a true friend, swoops down to rescue Rabbit from the now-annoyed menagerie. Rohmann uses wordless, and sometimes even empty, frames to great comic effect, allowing huge animals to make sudden entrances from the side-or from above, and artfully capturing the expressions on their faces. Young readers and pre-readers will chortle at the silliness of it all while enjoying the sometimes-demanding friendship between these disparately sized chums.