Chuck Groenink
Author of Hank's Big Day: The Story of a Bug
About the Author
Image credit: Photo of the author from his website (www.chuckgroenink.com)
Works by Chuck Groenink
Boy Here, Boy There 1 copy
Associated Works
A Celebration of Beatrix Potter: Art and letters by more than 30 of today's favorite children's book… (2016) — Contributor — 84 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Groenink, Chuck
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Birthplace
- Netherlands
- Places of residence
- Syracuse, New York, USA
New York, USA - Education
- ArtEZ Institute of the Arts (BS|Illustration)
- Awards and honors
- Fiep Westendorp Prize (2007)
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Reviews
diverse picture book (Hank the bug goes on a journey, spends half the book with a new friend)
Love the cover and illustrations, doesn't work as well for dial a story though (the pictures really help tell the story).
Love the cover and illustrations, doesn't work as well for dial a story though (the pictures really help tell the story).
3yo *loved* this one.
Hank the pill bug journeys to meet his friend Amelia, who wears goggles and an aviator cap like her hero, Amelia Earhart. This Amelia has brown skin and thick black braided pigtails, and she takes Hank for a ride, zooming around the yard, which transforms, in their imaginations, to Europe and back to America. At the end of their play, Hank returns to his rock; the whole thing seems like a day in the life of these two friends.
Hank gazes up at Amelia. "What friendship looks like."
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Hank the pill bug journeys to meet his friend Amelia, who wears goggles and an aviator cap like her hero, Amelia Earhart. This Amelia has brown skin and thick black braided pigtails, and she takes Hank for a ride, zooming around the yard, which transforms, in their imaginations, to Europe and back to America. At the end of their play, Hank returns to his rock; the whole thing seems like a day in the life of these two friends.
Hank gazes up at Amelia. "What friendship looks like."
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Re-read April/May 2019
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Re-read October 2019… (more)
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Statistics
- Works
- 3
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 107
- Popularity
- #180,615
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 9
- ISBNs
- 5
- Languages
- 1
This is a sweet story about a day in the life of a cute bug. It's only a "big" day in the sense that it was full and tiring and fun.
I liked it a lot. Very charming.