Knuffle Bunny
Author: Mo Willems
Illustrator: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Year of Publication: 2004
Genre: Picture Book
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: Rated a 2 on Horn Book
Summary: This story is about a little girl who helped her father wash their clothes at the laundromat. After leaving the laundromat to go home, she realized that she lost her favorite toy, Knuffle Bunny and made sure that her father knew that she wanted it back.
Summary of Professional Reviews: According to Horn Book Reviews, Knuffle Bunny received a rating of a 2. The review retells the story in a short description of the beginning, middle and end. The review also emphasizes on the illustrations and cartoon characters which help connect to the overall soothing mood of this simple story.
Review by Alicia Watson: Knuffle Bunny is a fun and exciting story about the main character's struggle of communicating with her father, after leaving her favorite bunny at the Laundromat. The use of illustrations helps the reader understand the emotion of each character and helps this short story create changing moods, from beginning until the end. Although the storyline is fairly simple, the appropriate age range of preschool, can appreciate the fun storyline and connect to the emotions of the child. The use of speech bubbles, also helps to connect the importance of the character's role within the story.
This book would be useful when teaching…
Illustrator: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Year of Publication: 2004
Genre: Picture Book
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: Rated a 2 on Horn Book
Summary: This story is about a little girl who helped her father wash their clothes at the laundromat. After leaving the laundromat to go home, she realized that she lost her favorite toy, Knuffle Bunny and made sure that her father knew that she wanted it back.
Summary of Professional Reviews: According to Horn Book Reviews, Knuffle Bunny received a rating of a 2. The review retells the story in a short description of the beginning, middle and end. The review also emphasizes on the illustrations and cartoon characters which help connect to the overall soothing mood of this simple story.
Review by Alicia Watson: Knuffle Bunny is a fun and exciting story about the main character's struggle of communicating with her father, after leaving her favorite bunny at the Laundromat. The use of illustrations helps the reader understand the emotion of each character and helps this short story create changing moods, from beginning until the end. Although the storyline is fairly simple, the appropriate age range of preschool, can appreciate the fun storyline and connect to the emotions of the child. The use of speech bubbles, also helps to connect the importance of the character's role within the story.
This book would be useful when teaching…
- Knuffle Bunny can be used in a variety of different lessons in regards to teaching emotion and the inability to communicate successfully. Within a preschool or kindergarten classroom setting, this story would be a wonderful introduction to teaching emotions. The story can be read aloud by the teacher, the students can then identify the several different emotions, Trixie has throughout the story and why she may feel that way. The teacher can then extend this lesson through having the children construct critical thinking through times where they may feel sad.
- Knuffle Bunny would also be a wonderful connection to theme of making predictions. The teacher can read this story aloud to the class and provide each student with a photocopied page of the page when Trixie is trying to tell her father something. The teacher can white out the words and have the students make predictions to what she is saying. The children can use critical thinking skills in order to match the illustrations to written text.