Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish Newberry Honor winning author, Margarita Engel, illustrated by David Walker. Thank you A to M H for allowing me to read this book to my students. A tiny rabbit dreamed of growing as huge as a forest with legs as tall as trees and eyes as size of moons. He wished for a nose as long as an elephant's trunk. And he wished for a tail-ized gigantic as a mountain. Tiny Rabbit wished and wished, but no matter how enormous his big wish grew, he was still tiny. So he wished the more, and while he was wishing, time passed and he grew, but he grew only a little bit. So tiny Rabbit wished and wished that he could grow as sky high as a giraffe and he did grow. But he grew only to the height of a slightly taller small rabbit. So tiny Rabbit started wishing to grow as powerful as a gorilla. But instead, he grew only to long tall, powerful ears to help him hear every loud or quiet sound in the forest. Tiny Rabbit's big ears helped him hear rhinos stomping, eagle screeching, frog strumping, thunder booming, branches crashing, and mischievous monkey cheerfully chatting. Tiny Rabbit could even hear leaves rustling, beetle just crunchy, and butterfly wings flapping. Best of all, tiny Rabbit's wonderful ears could always hear whenever a huge hungry lion was near. So that tiny Rabbit could jump, thump, hop, to his tiny, cozy, safe, hidden rabbit den. Where he was enormously happy to be smart and small.