Picture book · Fiction
Knuffle Bunny
Mo Willems
About the book
Toddler Trixie loses her beloved stuffed bunny at the laundromat and cannot yet speak the words to tell her dad.
Reading notes
Funny and true to toddler frustration; the photo-plus-cartoon art shows a real Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Recognition
- Caldecott Honor (2005)
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Book details
- Author
- Mo Willems
- First published
- 2004
- Suggested ages
- Ages 2–6 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Best read aloud
- Topics
- city life, humor, family
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9781423144496 · Hyperion Book CH, Apr 05, 2011 · hardcover
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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