Cover of Clara and Asha

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.

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 40 pages

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