Eric Rohmann

Eric Rohmann
Rohmann at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
Born	1957 (age 67–68) Riverside, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Author, illustrator
Period	1994–present
Genre	Children's picture books
Notable works	My Friend Rabbit Time Flies
Notable awards	Caldecott Medal 2003

Eric Rohmann (born October 26, 1957) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He is a graduate of Illinois State University and Arizona State University. He won the 2003 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing My Friend Rabbit, and he was a runner-up in 1995 for Time Flies.[1] Rohmann also won the Sibert Medal as the illustrator (with his wife, Candace Fleming, as the author), for Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera.[2]

In 2015, he created a popular series based on a bulldozer that began with Bulldozer’s Big Day.[3]

Selected works

• Time Flies (1994)
• The Cinder-Eyed Cats (2001)
• My Friend Rabbit (2002)
• Pumpkinhead (2003)
• Clara and Asha (2005)
• A Kitten Tale (2008)
• Last Song (2010)[4]
• Bone Dog (2011)
• Oh, No! (2012) (Illustrator)
• A Kitten Tale (2012)
• Bless This Mouse (2015) (Illustrator)
• Bulldozer's Big Day (2015) (Illustrator)
• Bulldozer Helps Out (2017) (Illustrator)
• Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera (2020) (Illustrator)

Personal life

Rohmann was raised one of three children and currently lives and works in Illinois. He was not a big reader as a child, instead seeing the world in images.[5] Rohmann is married to Candace Fleming and the couple have collaborated on projects including Oh, No!.[6] He is partial to coffee, popcorn, and Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus.[7]

References

1. "Randolph Caldecott Medal Committee Manual (formatted August 2012)" (PDF). Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA). June 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 10, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
2. Shelf, ALSC Book & Media Awards. "ALSC Book & Media Awards Shelf". alsc-awards-shelf.org. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
3. Myers, Alison Green (May 7, 2016). "Faculty Interview: Eric Rohmann". Highlights. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
4. Macpherson, Karen (November 5, 2010). "9 New Children's Books from Caldecott Medal Winners". The Seattle Times. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
5. Rohmann, Eric. "About". Eric Rohmann. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
6. Lodge, Sally (May 28, 2015). "BEA 2015: Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann: Creative Collaboration". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
7. Skinny Dip (January 1, 2016). "Skinny Dip with Eric Rohmann". Bookology Magazine. Retrieved July 29, 2019.

External links

• Official website
• Reading Rockets Video Interview
• Seven Impossible Things Interview
• Eric Rohmann at Library of Congress, with 15 library catalog records