![]() ![]() (His style is very much his own, but he has said in interviews that as a boy he loved Garth Williams, and some of Williams’s sweet spirit can be seen in Henkes’s work.) The illustrations were richly textured, black-and-white, charcoal-y drawings that represented a change of pace for Henkes, who normally works with scratchy lines and a full, cheerful palette. Henkes, who is 46, won his Caldecott two years ago for “Kitten’s First Full Moon,” a book for very young children about a white kitten who mistakes the moon for a big, unusually bright bowl of milk and then does her best to get a drink. Seuss and Maurice Sendak are, though he should be. And yet he isn’t quite the household name that Dr. And not that it will be news to the many fans of his 37 books or the judges who have made him the rare author-illustrator to have received both a Caldecott Medal (the picture-book prize) and a Newbery Honor (the runner-up children’s fiction prize). ![]() It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius. ![]()
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I actually hesitated writing book club questions, as it felt a little too intrusive upon these characters’ lives. ![]() Perhaps because Zevin created characters that I was rooting for, that were so true to who they were, that were loving and caring and unaware of their own shortcomings and hyperaware of others’ supposed slights. Perhaps because I know multiple people who have ongoing pain and don’t consider their situation a disability. Perhaps because I know Cambridge and the streets they walked. Perhaps because I was a female software developer. ![]() Wow! Wow! I closed the book and felt sad to leave the characters and no longer be with them in conversation and joy and sadness and love. ![]() ![]() The only good things were Orpheus who was a sweetheart and the 5⭐️ smut. Once the Katerina drama started I kind of checked out. ![]() And I usually like long books, but in this case there was no need for that many pages. I kept reading and reading and not so many things were happening. 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