![]() Somehow, in the tumult, the airplane comes free, and Mouse, aloft again, forgives his friend. The next spread anticipates trouble, as four duckling onlookers scurry frantically the following scene shows the living ladder upended, with lots of flying feathers and scrabbling limbs. Readers must tilt the book vertically to view the climactic spread: a tall, narrow portrait of a stack of very annoyed animals sitting on each other's backs as Rabbit holds Squirrel up toward the stuck airplane. ![]() Rohmann pictures the pint-size, long-eared fellow recruiting an elephant, a rhinoceros and other large animals, and coaching them to stand one on top of another, like living building blocks, in order to retrieve Mouse's plane. Rabbit might be a little too impulsive, but he has big ideas and plenty of energy. ![]() "But whatever he does, wherever he goes, trouble follows." Once Rabbit pitches Mouse's airplane into a tree, Rohmann tells most of the story through bold, expressive relief prints, a dramatic departure for the illustrator of The Cinder-Eyed CatsĪnd other more painterly works. "My friend Rabbit means well," begins the mouse narrator. ![]()
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