There are many different kinds of rabbits – fat rabbits and skinny rabbits, tall rabbits and short rabbits, smart rabbits and silly rabbits, clean rabbits and dirty rabbits, girl rabbits and boy rabbits – but they all have one thing in common: two long ears. Ricky also has two long ears, only...
A touching story about learning that there is nothing wrong with being different; sometimes it’s a good thing. For ages 4 and up.
Guido Van Genechten is an illustrator and the author of many bestselling children's books, including Alex and the Tart, Flop Ear and His Friends, Ricky, and Snowy's Special Secret. In 2007 he won the Reader's Digest Award for Best Children's Books Illustrator and was awarded for the Picture Book of the Year in Holland.
Guido Van Genechten (1957, Belgium) studied drawing and painting, graphics and photography. Afterwards he worked for many years in the graphic industry. Now Guido works as a fulltime illustrator of children’s books. In 1998 he won the international Illustrator’s Award City of Hasselt with his picture book Ricky. This prize was the beginning of his international career as a children’s book illustrator. Since that moment, Guido Van Genechten has created many best-selling stories and received several awards. In 2007 he was the winner of the Reader’s Digest Award for Best Children’s Book Illustrator. And in the past ten years his books were published in 30 countries around the world.
