My Friend Rabbit, by Eric Rohmann

Rohman, E. My friend Rabbit. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Book Press, 2002.
Lexile Level: AD510L

Selling Tool:
See my slide presentation nominating My Friend Rabbit for the IST 571 Class Caldecott Award.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o70OEkTL2Pm2SHPwBoV2ek4GVoWCz0GsHniABtnMc3U/edit?usp=sharing

Learning Activity: 
Target Age: 3-4 years
The illustrations in this book are so well done that some pages don't have any text on them at all. With a small Storytime group of preschoolers, I would ask them to take turns using their own words to tell the story of what happens on the pages that have no written text.

Learning Standard: 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

Learning Goal:
Children will tell what is happening in the story by using clues from the illustrations.

Learning Outcome:
Children will tell what is happening in the story, My friend Rabbit, by using the illustrations as clues.

Learning Objective:
Children will demonstrate narrative skills by telling what is happening on the pages without text in My friend Rabbit, by Eric Rohmann.