Cori Doerrfeld
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Cori Doerrfeld is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. The selected book was chosen for how precisely it meets children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Cori Doerrfeld
Cori Doerrfeld is a Minneapolis author-illustrator whose The Rabbit Listened — written after watching friends respond to tragedy — has become a staple of counseling offices, classrooms, and hospitals as much as bedrooms.
Doerrfeld drew the book from a specific observation: after loss, everyone knows what you should do — and the only friend who helps is the one who sits quietly. Educators adopted it within months of publication.
Also by this author: Beneath · Good Dog
Official website: www.coridoerrfeld.com
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.