Eric Rohmann facts for kids

Quick facts for kids 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. 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.

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

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)
• 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. Rohmann is married to Candace Fleming and the couple have collaborated on projects including Oh, No!. He is partial to coffee, popcorn, and Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus.