Kevin Henkes — Tuesday Author Keynote at #WEMTA16
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 Dayand Wemberly Worried, the Caldecott Honor Book Owen, and the belovedLilly’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 arePenny 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.
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