![]() ![]() Gerald the Elephant and Piggie the Pig star in Willems’s books for early readers. Willems won Caldecott Honors for the first and second books of the Knuffle Bunny series. The series ends with Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion (2010). In the next book, Trixie takes Knuffle Bunny to school in Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (2007). It is about the panic that can result when a small child’s favorite stuffed animal cannot be found. Willems was inspired to write Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (2004) because of an experience he had with his daughter, Trixie. The Pigeon stars in a number of other books including Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late (2006) and The Pigeon Wants a Puppy (2008). The Pigeon is sweet, cute, angry, and frustrated throughout the course of the book. ![]() For the rest of the book the Pigeon tries to convince the reader to let him drive the bus. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2003) begins with a bus driver telling the reader to not let the Pigeon drive the bus. ![]() Eventually, that doodle became a sketchbook that became a book. Willems is always doodling and sketching. ![]()
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