We are SO excited to share that Kevin will be our Author Keynote at the #WEMTA16 Conference!
Kevin Henkes is the author of the Caldecott Medal Winner Kitten's First Full Moon and the Newbery Honor Books Olive's Ocean and The Year of Billy Miller. He is the creator of several picture books featuring his mouse characters, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Lilly's Big Day and Wemberly Worried, the Caldecott Honor Book Owen, and the beloved Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. Bruce Handy, in a New York Times Book Review piece about A Good Day, one of the author's picture books, wrote, "It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius." Among his fiction for older readers are the novels The Birthday Room, Sun & Spoon, Protecting Marie, and Words of Stone. His newest books for beginning readers are Penny and Her Song, Penny and Her Doll, and Penny and Her Marble (a Geisel Honor Book).
Kevin Henkes lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. www.KevinHenkes.com
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