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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...
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...
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