Kevin Henkes, Author Greenwillow Books $10.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-054078-4
Children can play-act the story of the big sister who learns to share with Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick Board Book and Finger Puppet Set by Kevin Henkes. The board book is paired with an adorable finger puppet of the playful mouse in a sturdy...
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Kevin Henkes, Author Greenwillow Books $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-688-11356-8
In this stirring contemporary novel set in rural Wisconsin, Henkes ( Chrysanthemum ; The Zebra Wall ) paints a poignant picture of two lonely children whose paths cross one summer. First introduced is shy, red-headed Blaze, who has recently lost his
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Kevin Henkes, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-14388-6
PW commended Henkes for displaying ``a deep understanding of sibling rivalry and a child's fragile self-esteem'' in this hilarious and refreshing twist on the familiar theme of a new baby in the family. Ages 3-up. (Sept.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-14738-9
The mouse heroine of Henkes's pitch-perfect comedy doesn't frighten easily--she even growls at stray dogs. But when she gets lost, it's her ""scaredy cat"" sister who helps her find the way home. Ages 4-up. (Apr.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author Greenwillow Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-12897-5
Lilly the mouse idolizes her teacher Mr. Slinger, but when she comes to school flaunting three jingly quarters, movie-star glasses and a purple plastic purse ""that played a jaunty tune when it was opened,"" she interrupts Mr. Slinger's lessons on ""
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Kevin Henkes, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-15472-1
This ""sunny"" tale of mouse friendships features rambunctious Lilly (of the purple plastic purse). In a boxed review, PW said, ""every sentence is either downright funny or dense with playful, deadpan humor."" Ages 4-up. (Sept.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (135p) ISBN 978-0-14-130095-5
""Ten-year-old Spoon Gilmore's grandmother has just died, but her presence is strongly felt throughout this exceptionally moving novel about grief and rejuvenation,"" said PW in a boxed review. Ages 8-12. (Oct.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author Greenwillow Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-17027-1
Henkes (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse) introduces another wonderfully appealing child-mouse with a stubborn habit: worrying. Wemberly, a shy white mouse with gray spots, always feels nervous whether at home or away. ""At the playground, Wemberly...
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Kevin Henkes, Author Greenwillow Books $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-053789-0
A bag of tricks and treats aims to amplify Halloween high jinks. Kevin Henkes brings his on-target toddler sensibility to the board book original Julius's Candy Corn, featuring the mouse character familiar to fans of Julius, the Baby of the World
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Kevin Henkes, Author Greenwillow Books $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-688-07568-2
The softened watercolor worlds of Henkes's picture books sometimes distract readers from his acute understanding of just how harsh life can be. This awareness is glimpsed in his first novel, Two Under Par, but this new one is even more unflinching...
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Kevin Henkes, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054194-6
Henkes ``never falters,'' said PW , as he describes what happens when Ruthie's imaginary best friend accompanies her on the first day of kindergarten. Ages 3-8. (Aug.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-053543-8
With his usual sensitivity and insight, Henkes (The Birthday Room) explores key issues of adolescence, through the observations of aspiring 12-year-old writer Martha Boyle. In the opening scene on an August morning in Madison, Wis., Martha receives...
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Kevin Henkes, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-050979-3
Baily doesn't get to go on the trip with his older brother and sister, but discovers that some of camping's pleasures can be had at home. Ages 2-6. (Apr.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author Penguin Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-050835-2
Henkes's book is a table-turning tale in which fearless mouse Sheila Rae gets lost and looks to her timid little sister to lead the way home. Ages 3-8. (Nov.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-032969-8
Henkes's offbeat, ebullient story concerns the already large Vorlob family, anxiously awaiting the birth of (yet another) new baby. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Kevin Henkes, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054053-6
When eccentric Lily moves into their neighborhood, best friends Chester and Wilson's routine is disrupted, but the twosome becomes a triumvirate once Lily proves her mettle. In a boxed review, PW said, ``Henkes's vision of friendship captures the...
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Kevin Henkes, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-038320-1
A girl struggles to win the acceptance of her father, an aging artist; in a starred and boxed review, PW said that Henkes ""affirms the resiliency of the creative spirit and the transcending power of love."" Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-038426-0
""Henkes's novelist's hand is as sure as his illustrative talents,"" said PW of this ""touching and funny"" book about a boy getting to know his new stepfather. Ages 8-12. (Mar.)
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Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-200642-4
Dipping into the grassy, blossoming palette of his My Garden, Henkes depicts a bunny's spring day. His sequence salutes Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's classic The Runaway Bunny, for this little white rabbit also has a good imagination. "When
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-196417-6
In this introspective story about a child's search for a rare shell, Henkes (Bird Lake Moon) again displays his ability to find profound meaning in ordinary events. Every year Alice Rice and her parents take a trip to Florida's Sanibel Island, but...
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-285254-0
Henkes’s profound understanding of the adolescent heart and mind is evident as always in this story of two 12-year-olds frustrated by their parents. Amelia wanted to go to Florida for spring break, but her father, who hates to travel, has refused....
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Kevin Henkes, Author . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-058828-1
From their first glimpse of the title character, licking her front paw on the cover illustration, youngsters will find the star of Henkes's (Wemberly Worried
) fetchingly simple story quite irresistible. When Kitten spies her first full moon,...
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Kevin Henkes, Author . Greenwillow $15.99 (179p) ISBN 978-0-06-147076-9
In a novel as tender as his acclaimed Olive's Ocean
, Henkes probes the psyches of two boys facing family conflicts. Spending long, lonely days at his grandparents' lakeside home, 12-year-old Mitch Sinclair has plenty of time to brood about his...
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Kevin Henkes, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (217p) ISBN 978-0-06-053545-2
A journal entry of a classmate killed in an accident sends 12-year-old Martha on an unintended pilgrimage. In our Best Books citation, PW
wrote, "Readers witness Martha's maturation as she appreciates life anew and finds a way to give...
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Kevin Henkes, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (152p) ISBN 978-0-06-078230-6
"In this stirring contemporary novel, Henkes paints a poignant picture of two lonely children whose paths cross one summer," according to PW
's boxed review. Ages 8-up. (Sept.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-114018-1
Henkes's latest combines the thick black line of his Caldecott Medal–winning Kitten's First Full Moon
with the vivid palette of his mouse books to showcase a soothing story about turning lemons into lemonade. Four animals—a sun-y
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Kevin Henkes, Author . HarperTrophy $4.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-443828-5
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "Two gifts on a boy's 12th birthday fortuitously bring an entire family closer together. Once again, Henkes explores family relationships with breathtaking tenderness, showing how feelings of guilt, bitterness...
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Kevin Henkes, illus. by Laura Dronzek. Greenwillow, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-233139-7
With lyricism and an eye for drama in small things, the husband-and-wife team of Henkes and Dronzek introduce and examine the unfolding of spring, "Before Spring comes,/ the trees look like/ black sticks against the sky," he begins. "But if you wait/
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Anita Lobel, Illustrator , illus. by Anita Lobel. HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-056483-4
Henkes (Kitten's First Full Moon
) here concentrates on the text, interweaving the stories of a magic seed, a bored boy and a stranded rabbit into a spare narrative. Lobel (On Market Street
) gives the threefold tale a Mexican or South American...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-074236-2
When her teacher, Mr. Slinger, announces he's going to marry the school nurse, Lilly—naturally—assumes she will be the flower girl. Henkes's (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
) black pen-and-watercolor illustrations, done in...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-171517-4
Spring colors of lilac, daffodil yellow, pale blue, and leafy green bloom in Caldecott Medalist Henkes’s fanciful account of the great outdoors. “My mother has a garden. I’m her helper,” explains a girl, who wears a petunia-pi
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-240872-3
Four eggs: pink, yellow, blue, and green. Three hatch, and out come pink, yellow, and blue chicks who promptly depart. Why isn’t the green egg hatching? The birds return, and after some persistent pecking, an alligator pops out. It isn’t what the...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator . Greenwillow $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-155205-2
In time for autumn, Henkes (Kitten's First Full Moon
) masterfully tells of a hibernating bear who “dreamed that spring had come and he was a cub again.” Henkes's surefooted art guides readers through time: a terracotta dust...
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-236843-0
Waiting can make anyone feel helpless and frustrated, so the five toylike knickknacks in Henkes’s (Penny and Her Marble) story should be at their collective wits’ end. Perched on a windowsill, this odd, diminutive crew—a pig with an umbrella,
a...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-073211-0
Youngest book lovers will clamor for A Box of Treats: Five Little Picture Books About Lilly and Her Friends by Kevin Henkes. This sweet handful of board books will be quickly devoured, time after time: Lilly's Chocolate Heart; Owen's Marshmallow...
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-208195-7
Henkes (Little White Rabbit) introduces a musical mouse who must wait for the right moment to share her talent with her family. When Penny walks in the door, ready to belt out the counting song she learned at school, her mother gently quiets her. “Yo
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-208199-5
Penny the mouse, who eagerly awaited the opportunity to sing for her busy family in Penny and Her Song, is delighted to receive a doll from her grandmother (“I love her already,” Penny tells her mother and father separately). But Penny faces a...
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-208203-9
Henkes ups the emotional stakes in his third book starring Penny, in which guilt hangs heavily over the young mouse. Penny is instantly smitten with the blue marble she discovers on a neighbor’s lawn, and she sneaks it into her pocket. Her backward-g
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-226812-9
It’s the Year of the Rabbit, according to Billy Miller’s new second-grade teacher. It’s also the year of several dilemmas for the boy, including the fear he might “start forgetting things” due to bumping his head while on vacation over the summer....
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-08944-3
Lilly, the spunky white mouse who first appeared in the memorable Chester's Way , now stars in a book of her own. Before baby Julius is born, Lilly is an exemplary sister, setting aside toys for the baby and talking to him through her mother's belly.
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-054115-6
Kevin Henkes offers a meditative reflection on the joys of solitude in his first book, All Alone, originally published more than 20 years ago. A boy contemplates the joys of using his imagination-""When I'm alone,/ I can change my size any way I
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-056066-9
A slew of board books feature characters new and old. Kevin Henkes's exuberant mouse is back in an original board book for Valentine's Day, Lilly's Chocolate Heart. As Valentine's Day draws to a close, Lilly faces the dilemma of where she should
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-623837-1
Playing catch, exploring nature and re-creating a Christmas spent apart are just a few of the ways a boy and his grandfather enjoy their summer together in Grandpa & Bo (1986) by Kevin Henkes. Cream-colored pages and framed pencil drawings...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-029451-9
In his first board-book format, Kevin Henkes brings the star of Sheila Rae, the Brave back in Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick. Here, the familiar theme of sibling rivalry surfaces between the heroine and her younger sister, Louise. As one might...
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-266827-1
“Look! Elephants!” Henkes announces. And here they come, five in all: blue, yellow, purple, green, with a little pink one bringing up the rear. These elephants aren’t up to any hijinks or even peanut-eating—they do one thing: march. For much of the...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-688-16733-2
Two gifts on a boy's 12th birthday fortuitously bring an entire family closer together. Young Benjamin likes to draw and paint, but when his parents give him a present of a room to use as a studio, he feels pressured into becoming an artist. He is...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-15847-7
Jessica, a friend only Ruthie can see, follows Ruthie to school on the first day of kindergarten. ""Henkes never falters as he outlines the logic and reasoning behind Ruthie's affection for her invisible playmate,"" said PW. Ages 5-up. (May)
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-688-06708-3
Wedge is a slightly overweight boy, age 10, who stows away presents in a box that he hopes to give someday to his father. His mother Sally says she doesn't even know who his father is, and she expects Wedge to adapt to his new stepfather, King, and...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-050405-2
The winsome heroine of Wemberly Worried returns in a new board book from Kevin Henkes, Wemberly's Ice-Cream Star. Timid children will instantly identify with this charming worrywart as she decides on the proper way to enjoy a surprise treat. ...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-07155-4
A mouse both boastful and fearless, Sheila Rae decides to go home from school by taking a new route. She walks backwards with her eyes closed, growls at dogs and cats, climbs trees, turns new corners and crosses different streetsand ends up in the...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-07607-8
Chester's ways are fairly circumscribed: this young mouse has definite likes and dislikes, and there is no changing his mind. His friend Wilson is just like him; they're quite a pair. Then Lilly moves into the neighborhood. She speaks backwards (``YL
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-07829-4
Jessica is the imaginary friend of a girl named Ruthie, whose parents constantly remind her, ``There is no Jessica.'' But Ruthie knows better, and Jessica is included in every aspect of the girl's play. Then Ruthie goes to kindergarten and, despite...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-07985-7
In an affecting, stylistic departure from his often joyous watercolors, Henkes uses acrylic paints to create the hushed world of a child's first waking moments. A girl notes that the rest of the household is still asleep, from her stuffed animals...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-14024-3
The author of Protecting Marie (see boxed review, p. 73) demonstrates his versatility in this fetchingly illustrated story about a young mouse houseguest and her reluctant mouse host. Ages 4-up. (May)
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $7.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-15841-5
Flushed with his success at feeding and dressing himself, a boy and his parents imagine him becoming so big he can wear his house as a jacket and play ball with the sun. ""Sweet and simple,"" said PW. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-12829-6
Even though this collaboration lacks the inspiration of some of the Caldecott Honor artists' previous work, its soft cadences and peaceful wind-down recommend it as a bedtime readaloud. Tafuri's (Have You Seen My Duckling?) unadorned, large-scale...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Henkes, Author, Kevin Henkes, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-11449-7
A worthy addition to Henkes's ( Chester's Way ; Julius, the Baby of the World ) impressive, engaging oeuvre, this animated tale takes up the case of a wee mouse's devotion to a no-longer-fuzzy blanket named Fuzzy. Imbued with Henkes's...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Dan Yaccarino, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-15446-2
Henkes, who spoke to an elementary-age audience in Owen and Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, here gets down to basics with this lively description of a day in the life of two dachshunds. The tube-shaped dogs--one rust-orange with black ears, the other...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Laura Dronzek, Illustrator , illus. by Laura Dronzek. Greenwillow $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-136304-7
Husband-and-wife team Henkes and Dronzek (Oh!
) record random thoughts about birds, enlivened by vignettes of thickly outlined bird shapes feathered with primary-school paintbox colors. Observations as spare as haiku—“Sometimes, in...
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Kevin Henkes, illus. by Laura Dronzek. Greenwillow, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-257311-7
In a evocative companion to When Spring Comes, spouses Dronzek and Henkes praise the beauty of fall in full swing: “In the middle of Fall,/ when the leaves/ have already turned/ and the sky is mostly gray/ and the air is chilly,” begins Henkes in...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Laura Dronzek, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-17053-0
In this tender treatment by Henkes (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse) and Dronzek, Henkes's wife, a painter making her children's book debut, ""Oh!"" becomes a universal expression of friskiness elicited by the first blanket of snow. When morning...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Victoria Chess, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-04954-6
Annie's bored. The baby is crying, and that means Mama is taking care of him. The dog is busy scratching. Her best friend is on vacation. Annie goes out on the front steps to wait for Papa to come home, but she's bored and impatient. Mama suggests...
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Kevin Henkes, Author, Christine Ebersole, Performed by, Richard Thomas, Performed by , read by Christine Ebersol and Richard Thomas. HarperChildren's Audio $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-113044-1
The exploits of Henkes's beloved, fiercely independent girl mouse Lilly and her friends, stars of numerous bestselling picture books, are collected on this chipper but rather spare production. Though supported by solid performances from the two...
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Kevin Henkes, illus. by Laura Dronzek. Greenwillow, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-286613-4
Married team Henkes and Dronzek (When Spring Comes) complete their seasonal quartet with an homage to summer. Henkes explores the pleasures of the senses with dreamy, childlike lines: “In the shade it can be cool, or when you play with the hose.”...
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Kevin Henkes, illus. by Laura Dronzek. Greenwillow, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-296572-1
Married team Henkes and Dronzek (Summer Song) create a story about a child with light brown skin and black pigtails, whose visit to a grandparents’ small beach house allows time for wondering and questioning. Together, the child and grandmother walk
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Kevin Henkes, illus. by Laura Dronzek. Greenwillow, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-324566-2
“If you found a little ball on the grass,” begins this second-person work from married collaborators Henkes and Dronzek (Little Houses), “and it was there for days, you could take it home.” The red ball sits amid green grass thickly stroked with the
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-286610-3
Simple words and repeating forms draw beginning readers into this iterative volume by Henkes (Summer Song). Its central visual element, a circle with a ruffled edge, could signify the sun, a flower, or a lion with a mane—and here, it’s all three....
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-304279-7
In this short, well-paced follow-up to Newbery Honoree Henkes’s The Year of Billy Miller, the rising third grader, celebrating his eighth birthday as summer begins, wishes that “something exciting would happen.” When an ambulance arrives moments...
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-309260-0
Eschewing a more traditional story arc in this volume, Henkes (Sun Flower Lion) creates multiple images of a dwelling—a tiny, boxlike structure with a pink tiled roof, a round window, and a blue chimney—and offers a series of questions about them. “W
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Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-324564-8
Serene reflectiveness flows through this meditation by Henkes (Little Houses), whose simple prose initially segments the universe into two camps: “big things and little things.” An early spread shows both: a grown, gnarled tree is pictured against...
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