Trixie and Knuffle Bunny are back in this 2008 Caldecott Honor Book! Excited to share her "one-of-a-kind" Knuffle Bunny with her Pre-K class, Trixie and Daddy walk to school only to find that when they get there another girl also has a Knuffle Bunny. The girls are instnat enemies and argue over the correct pronunciation of Knuffle ("Kuh-nuffle," says Trixie, "Nuffle," says Sonja) until their teacher takes the bunnies away. Both girls are relieved when their precious toys are returned at the end of the day and go home to happily eat dinner and go to bed. In the middle of the night, Trixie wakes up and realizes that the she has Sonja's bunny! She wakes Daddy up and insists that they correct this problem, even if it is 2:30 AM! Before he can even get to the phone to place a call to Sonja's dad, the phone is already ringing. The dads make arrangements and meet to exchange bunnies. In the end, Sonja and Trixie find their first best friends in each other, excluding their bunnies of course! As with Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale this book features hand-drawn ink sketches paired with digital photography and is a great picture book for print awareness. Fans of Knuffle Bunny will enjoy this continuation and readers new to Knuffle Bunny will fall in love with this cute story!
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Willems, M. (2007). Knuffle bunny too: A case of mistaken identity. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.
