Clara and Asha

Clara and Asha by Eric Rohmann. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781596430310.

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.