My Friend Rabbit (original 2002; edition 2011)

The book is about the wonderful friendship between a mouse and a rabbit. Wherever rabbit goes bad luck is with him, but they always find ideas about how to help each other, although these ideas are normally not very appropriate. The book does not need words necessarily, because the careful-made illustrations alone could tell us the story about the uncommon friendship between a rabbit and a mouse. ( )

Wonderful story of a rabbit with ideas and adventure. I'd recommend this for circle time with children ages PK-K and a read-alone for children grades 1-2. ( )

Summary:
This book is about a rabbit that gets into trouble anytime he has an idea. It is a fun, free flowing book. This poor rabbit tried so hard to get what he wanted to get and it just kept being right out of reach.

Personal Reaction:
I enjoyed reading this book. The illustrations were amazing. I wish it had more words, but it was fun to read. I also liked how rabbits friend stuck by him no matter what kind of trouble rabbit found himself in.

Classroom Extension:
1. I would use this book to teach the students to never give up if they are trying to accomplish something.

2. I would use this book to study animals, color, and helping friends out.

Poor rabbit everywhere he goes trouble seems to follow him. Rabbit gets his friend mouse's plane stuck in a tree. Not to worry says rabbit I've got an idea. Rabbit gathers all the animals and stacks them on top of each other. Thinking his plan was going to work all the animals fall over causing them to get very angry. At the end the rabbit says rabbit means well and he is my friend. This book teaches children no matter how many times your friend may mess up something you should never change the way you feel about them. ( )

The book was about the rabbit trying to help his friends, but nothing would turn out right. His friends would constantly become angry with him. Mr. Rabbit always had a bright ideas for his friends and even though he things didn't work out, he was trying to be helpful.

Personal reaction

The book was very colorful and it captured the children's attention and also, the pictures was very large that the children could reach out out touch. Also, the book was full of emotions , and it great example how to become a team player.

Classroom ideas

1. Discuss emotions , with a emotion chart showing different emotions

2. Have the children draw a picture on how they are feeling today