Clara and Asha

In Clara and Asha -- as in Eric Rohmann's Caldecott Medal-winning My Friend Rabbit--a simple storyline becomes the basis for fun and sophistication. Clara's 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 child's 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.

Eric Rohmann was awarded the 2003 Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit. His other picture books are Time Flies, a 1995 Caldecott Honor Book, The Cinder-Eyed Cats, and Pumpkinhead. He lives in the Chicago area.