


This technique here yields some spectacular results: The middle-of-the-night hostage exchange features a glorious image of the Manhattan skyline, the teeny figures of Trixie and her daddy and Sonja and her daddy approaching from opposite sides of Grand Army Plaza. Willems revisits his black-and-white Brooklyn, his now-signature cartoon characters superimposed on the photographs. The two bunnies are confiscated and returned at the end of the day, but neither girl notices that they’ve been swapped, until the wee hours of the morning. Trixie knows that she will wow all the kids at Pre-K with her “one-of-a-kind” toy, but she doesn’t reckon on Sonja, who arrives with her own Knuffle Bunny-and the morning does “not go well.”
