Summer Song
by Kevin Henkes
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce the colors, songs, and activities of summer.Tags
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Delicious words and illustrations
It's funny that where I am rereading these books, my rating is the same. I wouldn't expect my opinion to be quite so consistent.
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The newest (and final?) seasonal collaboration between Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek (When Spring Comes, In the Middle of Fall, Winter is Here). Acrylic paint illustrationsare sometimes full-bleed double page spreads, sometimes ovals with air frames.
"When there is fog early in the morning, Summer is a gray song.
When you go to the beach or a lake, Summer is a blue song."
"When there is fog early in the morning, Summer is a gray song.
When you go to the beach or a lake, Summer is a blue song."
Oddly enough, it just doesn't work for me. Partly because there are lots of kids who live where there isn't much green at all.
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Kevin Henkes was born in Racine, Wis. in 1960 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. One of four children in his family, Henkes grew up with aspirations of being an artist. As a junior in high school, one of Henkes's teachers awakened his interest in writing. Falling in love with both writing and drawing, Henkes realized that show more he could do both at the same time as a children's book author and illustrator. At the age of 19, Henkes went to New York City to get his first book, All Alone, published. Since that time, he has written and illustrated dozens of picture books including Chrysanthemum, Protecting Marie, and A Weekend with Wendell. A recurring character in several of Henkes's books is Lily, an outrageous, yet delightful, individualist. Lily finds herself the center of attention in the books Chester's Way, Julius, the Baby of the World, and Lily's Purple Plastic Purse. A Weekend With Wendell was named Children's Choice Book by the Children's Book Council in 1986. He recieved the Elizabeth Burr Award for Words of Stone in 1993. Owen was named a Caldicott Honor in 1994. The Year of Billy Miller was named a Newbery Honor book in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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