What do we know about flies, besides the fact that they buzz annoyingly and spread infection? Kotani-sensei, a young teacher from the Himematsu school, also knew nothing about them until she met first-grader Tetsuzo - a very strange and an unusual boy who was friends exclusively with flies. How to make someone less lonely? You just have to try to understand him. To understand her student, Kotani-sensei also made friends with flies, and at the same time learned to look at familiar things in a new way. After all, a real teacher not only teaches his students, but also learns from them! The novel “The Eye of the Rabbit” (1974) instantly won the love of readers throughout Japan, went through many reprints (with a total circulation of more than two million copies), was translated into English, and is widely known in the UK, USA and Canada and was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal.