In Clara and Asha -- as in Eric Rohmanns Caldecott Medal-winning My Friend Rabbit--a simple storyline becomes the basis for fun and sophistication. Claras friend Asha is an enormous fish which means that hide-and-seek Halloween snow days and afternoons in the park offer surprising opportunities for adventure. With oil paintings that playfully suggest stories within stories and convey great emotional range this is a captivating book about the special world of a childs imagination--where a giant fish might come to visit and the things you do and the things you fell with an imaginary friend are intensely real.
In Clara and Asha -- as in Eric Rohmanns Caldecott Medal-winning My Friend Rabbit--a simple storyline becomes the basis for fun and sophistication. Claras friend Asha is an enormous fish which means that hide-and-seek Halloween snow days and afternoons in the park offer surprising opportunities for adventure. With oil paintings that playfully suggest stories within stories and convey great emotional range this is a captivating book about the special world of a childs imagination--where a giant fish might come to visit and the things you do and the things you fell with an imaginary friend are intensely real.