Eric Rohmann is the author and illustrator of The Cinder Eyed Cats and Time Flies, a 1995 Caldecott Honor book. He lives in LaGrange, Illinois.
Eric Rohmann won the Caldecott Medal for
My Friend Rabbit, and a Caldecott Honor for
Time Flies. He is also the author and illustrator of
Clara and Asha,
A Kitten Tale, and
The Cinder-Eyed Cats, among other books for children. He has illustrated many other books, including
Last Song, based on a poem by James Guthrie, and has created book jackets for a number of novels, including
His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. Rohmann was born in Riverside, Illinois in 1957. He grew up in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago. As a boy, he played Little League baseball, read comic books, and collected rocks and minerals, insects, leaves, and animal skulls. Rohmann has his BS in Art and an MS in Studio Art from Illinois State University, and an MFA in Printmaking/Fine Bookmaking from Arizona State University. He also studied Anthropology and Biology. He taught printmaking, painting, and fine bookmaking at Belvoir Terrace in Massachusetts and introductory drawing, fine bookmaking, and printmaking at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He lives in a suburb of Chicago.
