![]() This title lacks the hilarity of Willems's previous accounts of persuasion, but it does assert the power of a spoonful of sugar. The simply drawn children recall the various Peanuts characters, and the insistent mice clown around in ways that reward rereading. ![]() ![]() Finally the girl appeals to her father with a gracefully hand-lettered "please" that does the trick, and the tutorial concludes with the rodents begging (politely) for a bite of her hard-earned cookie. By the time Trixie was born, Willems was working seven days a week in TV, directing a staff of 50 animation artists, and he envisioned his daughter's childhood speeding by without him. Have an ulterior motive-wave banners and fly tiny zeppelins emblazoned with word-by-word commands: "Go ask a big person/ and/ Please say 'please'!" Then, in a digression from the main story, they and some other children demonstrate the versatile applications of "please," "excuse me," "sorry" and "thank you" ("you have to mean it!"). What happens when Daddy discovers Trixie's favorite toy is missing Let's find out in the Knuffle BunnyTHE KNUFFLE BUNNYBy Mo WillemsYou. As she resists their advice, the mute mice-who might The gaggle of Ignatz-lookalike mice first introduced in Time to Pee!ĭispense the lesson, instructing a girl who wants a cookie by holding up four red placards shaped like stop signs ("Don't just grab it!") to arrest her first impulse. ![]() In this etiquette lesson (from which Pigeon, star of a few other of Willems's picture books, could benefit), the author explains the tactical usefulness of the magic word. Willems's assertive characters know what they want, but they seldom ask for it politely. ![]()
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