My Friend Rabbit: A Picture Book

This is hands down one of the best children's books ever written. I bought it for my own three year old daughter and have given it as a gift to all my nephews and nieces. It is hilarious, well illustrated, and has one of the best story lines of all time. It has a great moral message about friendships and making mistakes. I've read this book countless times to my kids and it never gets old. It is a must have for any child's library.

We just got this book in the mail today based purely on the fact that it got some many five star reviews and it was the medal winner. I opened the book on my own to make sure it was age apporaite for my 3 and half year old son -- I ended up laughing out loud ! This book is simple, whimsy, clever and about friendship. The art draws the reader in and makes very excellent use of the page. Today alone we've read the book three times!

This great book with excellent illustrations was a favorite for both of my boys. We did Baby Sign Language from birth and my friend rabbit is a fun book for teaching and reinforcing the animal signs. Before my son could speak from about about 16 months on he would tell this story in sign language, explaining how the animals would stack, it was a lot of fun! I recommend the "Signing Times" DVD called "Zoo Train" and "Great Outdoor" which teaches you the animal signs you can use with the book.

I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist who uses books extensively in my therapy sessions. This is one of my favorite children's books to use with students. It's great for making inferences, talking about feelings, the sequence of events, and making up our own lines for the wordless pages. It has a sweet story line that all of my students love.

Wonderful story for our grandchildren and the pictures are just beautiful and full of life! A book that is similar to Good Night Moon, a book to read over and over again, discover and discover all its complexities

I got this for my 19mo-old son, and we read through it in so much detail, looking at all the pictures and animals and what is happening... When I said it was time to say good night to the book, he held it to his chest and said "bed!". I let him take it to bed and left the hallway light on for him so he could look at it a little longer. For another 15 minutes we heard "Airpane. Uh oh! Mouse. Airpane. Tree. Oh no!" on the monitor. It's now a week later and it's still his absolute favorite and still goes to bed with him.

This book is cute, and the illustrations are fun for children, but I expected more from the great reviews on Amazon and the fact that this is a Caldecott Medal winner. I was a little disappointed. There are many cute books, but few classics. And considering the creativity and quality of illustrations in other children's books I've read, I was surprised this one won the Caldecott.

I liked how it was about never giving up. It was also about friendship. They would never give up on getting the paper air plane out of the tree.

Esperaba que tuviera una historia, que me contase algo, pero me ha decepcionado. Es que casi no hay palabras, es demasiado simple para una niña de 4 años.

I bought this book to read to an aeroplane-obsessed 2 yr old boy. It has just a few simple words, which mostly go over a toddler's head (about Rabbit being a bit of a fool) so you have to ad-lib. It's a very very simple story - to sum up, a mouse gets a toy plane for a gift, rabbit flies it into a tree, he then piles all the jungle animals up in a heap to try and reach it. They fall down, along with the plane with Mouse in it, and are pissed off with Rabbit, who is saved by Mouse flying the plane back to pick him up and zoom him....back into the same tree. It's mildly amusing. Apart from pointing out all the pictures of the plane, the 2 yr old hasn't really gone for this story much. It's almost too simple. And I think the animals being piled up and falling down seems a bit silly and pointless?

very colourful. Nice story and beautiful hardcover

大人でも十分楽しめる雰囲気のある版画イラストがおすすめ。テキストはとてもシンプル。ストーリーもシンプルだから、誰でも楽しめると思う。テキストは関係なく、子どもとあれこれ絵について、ストーリーについて話してみたい、英語の語りかけに使いたい、という人にもおすすめ。

レビューを見た時は字数はあるのかなっと思ったのですが。。。 届いて最初のページを見たとき字数の少なさに驚きました。 ほとんどなくて、1ページに2行あるかどうかで絵だけのページが多いです。 対象年齢が4歳からなのですが、その割りに少なすぎます。 絵を楽しむ本なのかもしれないですが^^; でも内容も微妙です、子供に読ませようにも字がないし、小さな子に内容が伝わるかどうかも分からないですね^^; 絵だけ見ていると伝えたいことが何なのかまったく分からないです。単に読解力がないだけかもですが； ただどじで楽観的なウサギが優しいネズミとその他の動物に迷惑をかけるお話。