Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
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Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity is a children's picture book
by Mo Willems
. A sequel to Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
, it was released on September 4, 2007 and reached the number one spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for children's books.
In the book, a young girl named Trixie realizes that her classmate Sonja has the same type of "Knuffle Bunny" toy that she does. When the jealous girls begin arguing, their teacher confiscates the stuffed animals, returning them at the end of the school day. At 2:30 AM, Trixie realizes that her teacher has given her Sonja's bunny, and asks her father to call Sonja's house to exchange toys.
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' s Sonja Bolle praised the book for its "inventive illustration style" and said, "Anyone who fell in love with the first 'Knuffle Bunny' two years ago will pounce on this sequel, even if they've grown up since then." Leonard S. Marcus of the New York Times Book Review added, "Willems has a brilliant knack for exposing early childhood's developmental pivot points, and for lampooning the best efforts of today's hip but hapless parents to do the right thing."
The book was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 2008.
Picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor and pencil.Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now...
by Mo Willems
Mo Willems
Mo Willems is an American writer, animator, and children's books author/illustrator.-Early life:Willems was raised in New Orleans, where he graduated from Trinity Episcopal School and the Isidore Newman School. He graduated cum laude from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He married...
. A sequel to Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale is a children's picture book by Mo Willems. Released by Hyperion Books in 2004, an illustrated version of the book won the 2005 Caldecott Honor and a Carnegie Medal in 2007. In August 2007, the sequel, Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity was published...
, it was released on September 4, 2007 and reached the number one spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for children's books.
In the book, a young girl named Trixie realizes that her classmate Sonja has the same type of "Knuffle Bunny" toy that she does. When the jealous girls begin arguing, their teacher confiscates the stuffed animals, returning them at the end of the school day. At 2:30 AM, Trixie realizes that her teacher has given her Sonja's bunny, and asks her father to call Sonja's house to exchange toys.
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The book was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 2008.