Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems, Mo Willems (Illustrator)

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In primary school, every day is show-and-tell day. On this sunny day, Trixie is certain that she has the best in show: a brand-new, one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny! But wait -- somebody else in her class is toting an apparently identical rabbit. Thus begins the emotional, ultimately entertaining follow-up to Mo Willems's Caldecott Honor book, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale.

From the Publisher

The New York Times - Leonard S. Marcus

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. In the artist's computer-manipulated graphics, manically wired and warmhearted cartoon characters rendered in color play out their workaday dramas against a backdrop of black-and-white photographs of neighborhood streets and interiors. Beyond the novelty of the special effect lies the stirring truth that the city that never sleeps is a self-regenerating, nonstop theater of becoming, a place where on any given day, amid huge skyscrapers and venerable brownstone blocks, two new friends may decide to draw their own favorite bunnies on the nearest sidewalk for all the world to see.

Kirkus Reviews

Trixie knows that she will wow all the kids at Pre-K with her "one-of-a-kind" toy, but she doesn't reckon on Sonja, who arrives with her own Knuffle Bunny-and the morning does "not go well." The two bunnies are confiscated and returned at the end of the day, but neither girl notices that they've been swapped, until the wee hours of the morning. Willems revisits his black-and-white Brooklyn, his now-signature cartoon characters superimposed on the photographs. This technique here yields some spectacular results: The middle-of-the-night hostage exchange features a glorious image of the Manhattan skyline, the teeny figures of Trixie and her daddy and Sonja and her daddy approaching from opposite sides of Grand Army Plaza. His mastery of pacing is evident in every panel and page turn, the understated text punctuating the illustrations perfectly, and his use of the conventions of cartooning add to the hilarity. Too often, sequels come off as obviously calculated attempts to cash in on success; this offering, with its technical brilliance and its total and sympathetic understanding of the psychology of the preschooler, stands as magnificent in its own right. (Picture book. 3-8)

Product Details

• ISBN: 1423102991
  
• ISBN-13: 9781423102991
• Format: Hardcover, 48pp
• Publisher: Hyperion
• Pub. Date: September 2007
• Sales Rank: 2,683
• Age Range: 4 to 8