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Ava Weiss (1925-2020)
We were sorry to learn that longtime Greenwillow Books art director Ava Weiss has died, at the age of ninety-five. She was with Greenwillow from its beginnings in 1974 (having followed founder Susan Hirschman from Macmillan), retiring in 2002. Greenwillow’s Facebook page called her “brilliant” and said: “Ava designed the Greenwillow logo (inspired by Janina Domanska’s etchings in Under the Green...
Review of Sun Flower Lion
Sun Flower Lion by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-286610-3 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-06-286611-0 $19.89 Meet the sun, “as bright as a flower”; a flower that looks like a lion; and a lion, who sees the flower and dreams about a field...
Profile of 2020 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Kevin Henkes
Dudley Carlson: The farmers’ market was a riot of color. Red and green lettuces, orange carrots, blue and purple berries, and breads in rich browns and tans stretched for two blocks. At one end, a single booth held only green. Beautiful green beans were neatly bundled and stacked like a...
Read Kevin Henkes's 2020 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance Speech at ALA's Virtual Book Award Celebration
When I found out on January 26th that I’d won the Legacy Award, I was ecstatic. However, it didn’t take me long — about an hour! — to start fretting about my speech. That’s just the way I am. I began working on my speech right away and had a...
Review of Summer Song
Summer Song by Kevin Henkes; illus. by Laura Dronzek Preschool Greenwillow 40 pp. 4/20 978-0-06-286613-4 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-06-286614-1 $19.89 Henkes and Dronzek complete their seasonal quartet (beginning with When Spring Comes, rev. 3/16) with a joyful ode celebrating summer and its myriad natural wonders and seasonal sights and sounds....
Review of Penny and Her Sled
Penny and Her Sled by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 56 pp. 10/19 978-0-06-293453-6 $14.99 Library ed. 978-0-06-293454-3 $15.89 In her first easy-reader outing in six years (most recently Penny and Her Marble, rev. 3/13), Penny waits for snow. It’s winter, and the young mouse wants nothing...
Kevin Henkes Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by It's spring break, 1999, and twelve-year-olds Amelia and Casey, heretofore unknown to each other, find themselves thrown together for the week. Now, this is Kevin...
Review of Sweeping Up the Heart
Sweeping Up the Heartby Kevin HenkesIntermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 184 pp. g3/19 978-0-06-285254-0 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-06-285255-7 $17.89e-book ed. 978-0-06-285257-1 $9.99The elegiac spirit of Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Bustle in a House” (from which this book’s title is taken) reverberates throughout Henkes’s story of people struggling to cope with love, loss,...
A Parade of Elephants
This year on Calling Caldecott we’ve had an impassioned plea for Caldecott recognition for board books. The title under discussion today isn’t a board book (well, not yet). But it’s for the same audience, and I’m about to make an impassioned plea for its recognition.Kevin Henkes’s A Parade of Elephants is both...
Review of A Parade of Elephants
A Parade of Elephantsby Kevin Henkes; illus. by the authorPreschool Greenwillow 40 pp. g9/18 978-0-06-266827-1 $18.99Library ed. 978-0-06-266828-8 $19.89“Look! Elephants! / One, two, three, four, five. / Five elephants. / Marching. / A parade of elephants!” The sturdy walkers, each rendered in a pastel color with a thick brown outline, stay in the same...