Transcript Eric Rohmann and Candace Fleming 2013 Author Visit Ankeny Community Schools Eric Rohmann • Presenting to Kindergarten, First, and Second Graders Candace Fleming • Married to Eric.

Eric Rohmann and Candace Fleming
2013 Author Visit
Ankeny Community Schools
Eric Rohmann
• Presenting to Kindergarten, First, and Second
Graders
Candace Fleming
• Married to Eric Rohmann
• Presenting to the third, fourth, and fifth graders
• Author of Everybody, Fiction and Biography
books
Who is Eric Rohmann?
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A Caldecott winning illustrator and author
Born in Riverside, Illinois
Today lives in Chicago, Illinois
Growing up Eric loved to draw
Tends to write and illustrate books with animals
in them because he used to work in a zoo
• His first book, Time Flies, won the Caldecott
Honor Medal in 1995
• Won the Caldecott Medal in 2003 with his book,
My Friend Rabbit
Eric’s Books
Written and Illustrated by Eric Rohmann
Eric’s Books
Illustrated by Eric Rohmann
My Friend Rabbit
• When Mouse lets his
best friend, Rabbit,
play with his brandnew airplane, trouble
isn't far behind.
• A story about friends
and toys and trouble.
My Friend Rabbit and the Snow Geese
• On the first day of winter,
the Gibble Goose Girls
sulk—the snow has made
their favorite outdoor
activities impossible! It's
up to Rabbit and Mouse to
prove that the cold season
has its own charms.
From Eric:
“This was my first book and
it’s no surprise that it’s
about dinosaurs. I’ve always
been fascinated by
dinosaurs, great monsters
that ruled the earth so long
ago that they feel like
science, mystery and myth
all rolled into one. When I
decided to write the book I
recalled myself as a boy,
walking into the Great Hall
at the Field Museum in
Chicago, the massive
Albertosaurus skeleton
looming above. Back then I
wanted the dinosaur
skeletons to move like
animals in a zoo. I still do.
So I wrote a book.
The book began with words
but I found, as I made the
pictures, that the words and
images were saying the same
thing. So I let the pictures
talk by themselves.”
Time Flies
• A wordless tale in which a bird
flying around the dinosaur exhibit
in a natural history museum has
an unsettling experience when the
dinosaurs seem to come alive and
view the bird as a potential meal.
A Kitten Tale
• As four kittens who have
never seen winter watch
the seasons pass, three of
them declare the reasons
they will dislike snow
when it arrives, while the
fourth cannot wait to
experience it for himself.
Oh, No!
• A series of animals
falls into a deep hole,
only to be saved at last
by a very large rescuer.
Author Visit Date
• Eric will be at Southeast on…
Monday, April 15
Book orders will go home today and are due back
on March 8, 2013!