
Your young readers and listeners will love seeing Trixie once again, even as they discover with her that sharing what we love with others can bring us a whole new kind of happiness. How could she lose Knuffle Bunny? What’s she going to do without him? Will she ever see him again? This final adventure in this award winning trilogy has all the charm, humor, and heart-warming appeal of the first two. But later that day she realizes something is wrong - Knuffle Bunny is missing! She left him on the plane and now he’s on his way to China! (Which is a long way from Holland). The flight is long, but worth it when Trixie finally gets to her Oma and Opa’s house. Parents (and Miss Riley) took pictures all around our town and printed them in black and white so students could create colorful pictures of themselves to place on the pictures.Trixie and her beloved Knuffle Bunny are back! This time, they’re off with her Mom and Dad to visit her Oma and Opa (Dad’s parents) in Holland! Trixie and Knuffle Bunny take the taxi to the airport, go through security and board the plane together. We decided that Brooklyn must be a city, because everything was so close together and Trixie and her dad could walk anywhere they needed to go.Īfter talking about the illustrations in Knuffle Bunny, we made our own Mo Willems-inspired illustrations of our own community of East Kingston. While we’ve read the story Knuffle Bunny several times, we did a picture walk through the story so we could get a really good sense of the community where Willems lived. (Have a twitter account? Follow Mo Willems’ Pigeon for some funny tweets!) That beats spending all your time shuttling back and forth in a car” The plot is simple: Trixie loses bunny, finds bunny and. Any child who has ever had a favorite toy will identify with the toddler star of this tale. All I have to do is open the front door, plop down a bucket of chalk, and instantly the sidewalk is swarmed with kids drawing and hanging out. Hyperion, 15.99 (36pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-1870-9. “Our attachment to Brooklyn has only increased by having a child. where Knuffle Bunny may end up next and may relate to Trixies need for Knuffle.

Willems was quoted in an interview once talking about his community and his love for it: Pigeon SeriesIn Mo Willemss Pigeon Series, young children in preschool. The pictures actually come from the community where Willems was living at the time, which was Brooklyn, NY.


One of our most favorite Mo Willems stories is the Knuffle Bunny series because of his unique illustrations that combine real black and white pictures with whimsical cartoons. It is no secret that 1OZ LOVES Mo Willems and his many wonderful stories.
