Meet the author

Cori Doerrfeld.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1973

Cori Doerrfeld: American picture-book maker behind The Rabbit Listened — the quietly transformative SEL picture book about empathy and listening, for ages 3–7.

Cori Doerrfeld is an American author-illustrator born in 1973, best known for The Rabbit Listened (2018), a quietly transformative picture book about an upset child being approached by various animals offering different responses to grief, until a rabbit just listens. The book has become a fixture of US and UK PSHE / SEL classroom shelves and grief / emotional-literacy reading lists. Doerrfeld has also written and illustrated a range of other picture books. Her style is clean-lined, character-driven and gently emotional. A reliable contemporary picture-book maker for ages 3–7, particularly for emotional-literacy and bereavement reading.