From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:29:57 -0600

Judging from the crowd reaction at the ALA press conference last Monday, I think most people were very surprised by the winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal book, "My Friend Rabbit," by Eric Rohmann. It's a quiet book that many people had never heard of and it was published by a new publisher, Roaring Brook.

Eric Rohmann's has published two other picture books you may know ("Time Flies" and
"The Cinder-Eyed Cats") but "My Friend Rabbit" uses a very different style and you might not even recognize it as the same artist.

If any of you had a chance to see it, please let us know what you think of "My Friend Rabbit."

KTH

Kathleen T. Horning, Acting Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706

horning at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3721 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
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