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Finding Things
Adrienne Pettinelli captured the heart of Kevin Henkes’s work in her Horn Book review of his picture book The World and Everything in It (May/June 2023): “Henkes’s strength is in the poetry of the everyday and finding the profound in ordinary moments.” Finding Things, written by Henkes and illustrated by...
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Review of Finding Things
Finding Things by Kevin Henkes; illus. by Laura DronzekPreschool Greenwillow 32 pp.5/24 9780063245662 $19.99This adventure of discovery kicks off on the title-page spread with an adult and child walking a dog. The story’s second-person voice immediately engages readers: “If you found a little ball on the grass and it was...
Blowing the Horn: My First Horn Book Visit
The memory of my first trip to the Horn Book offices is both hazy and vividly clear. I had to do a bit of detective work to figure out the date, but I’ve deduced that it must have been in July of 1991. I’d gone with editor Susan Hirschman to...
Review of The World and Everything in It
The World and Everything in It by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Preschool Greenwillow 32 pp. 3/23 9780063245648 $19.99 “There are big things and little things in the world.” Here Henkes meditates on the world and our place in it. There are tiny things (kittens, ladybugs, flowers), and there...
First-grade character traits
Once a month just before lunch, I turn up at my six-year-old grandson’s first-grade classroom with two books for an event called “Circle of Grandparents.” COG is a program offered in my grandsons’ school district, where nine times a school year, grandparents — or anyone who wants to claim the...
Review of Oh, Sal
Oh, Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 122 pp. g 9/22 978-0-06-324492-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-324495-5 $10.99 This third, stand-alone installment of the Miller family saga (The Year of Billy Miller, rev. 9/13, and sequel) is told from four-year-old Sal’s point of view. It’s New Year’s...
Review of Little Houses
Little Houses by Kevin Henkes; illus. by Laura DronzekPreschool, Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g5/22 978-0-06-296572-1 $18.99Library ed. 978-0-06-296573-8 $19.89A pigtailed child visits her grandparents at the shore, where the waves call them to explore the sands just outside the steps of their small seaside house. Amid the colorful detritus left...
CaldeGeisel 2022
Amanda Foulk is one of the bloggers at Guessing Geisel, a mock Geisel Award blog. She visits Calling Caldecott this year to discuss a book that could win either the Geisel Award or the Caldecott (or both!). -- J.D. and M.V.P. Kevin Henkes, recipient of the 2020 Children’s Literature Legacy...
Review of A House
A House by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Preschool Greenwillow 32 pp. g 9/21 978-0-06-309260-0 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-06-309261-7 $19.89 Meet a house created out of simple forms and sturdy lines and nestled within a bordered square in a solid pastel blue space. The text (“A house”) is placed...
Review of Billy Miller Makes a Wish
Billy Miller Makes a Wish by Kevin Henkes Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 192 pp. g 4/21 978-0-06-304279-7 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-304281-0 $8.99 When Billy Miller fell on his head at the beginning of The Year of Billy Miller (rev. 9/13), he worried about forgetting things and whether he was smart enough...
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