Penny and Her Doll

Description

In the second book in the Penny series, Penny receives a surprise package in the mail from her grandma. It's a doll! Penny loves her doll, and she sets out to find a name for her. A masterful story from the award-winning creator of such beloved books for children as Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and Chrysanthemum, layered with drama, humor, lessons, relationships, language, and unpredictable fun. Illustrated throughout with quintessential and irresistible Kevin Henkes watercolors, this is an ideal book to give to a child just learning to read. Plush doll available from Merrymakers.

Kevin Henkes is the author and illustrator of more than fifty critically acclaimed and award-winning picture books, beginning readers, and novels. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon in 2005, and Waiting won a Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor in 2016. Kevin Henkes is also the creator of a number of 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. His most recent mouse character, Penny, was introduced in Penny and Her Song; her story continued in Penny and Her Doll and Penny and Her Marble (a Geisel Honor Book). Bruce Handy, in a New York Times Book Review piece about A Good Day, wrote, "It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius." Kevin Henkes received two Newbery Honors for novels-one for The Year of Billy Miller, and the other for Olive's Ocean. Also among his fiction for older readers are the novels Junonia, Bird Lake Moon, The Birthday Room, and Sun & Spoon. Kevin Henkes has been published by Greenwillow Books since the release of his first book, All Alone, in 1981. His fiftieth book, the picture book Egg, was published in January 2017. Most recently, he is the author of In the Middle of Fall, Winter Is Here, Summer Song, A Parade of Elephants, Sweeping Up the Heart, and Penny and Her Sled. He lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. www.kevinhenkes.com.

"Henkes continues to give children reasons to want to read, long after the satisfaction of learning how to has passed." -- Horn Book (starred review) "A doll of a beginning reader." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The dynamics are spot-on." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "As supremely satisfying as a Henkes picture book, this beginning reader belongs in collections everywhere." -- School Library Journal (starred review) Praise for Little White Rabbit: "Kevin Henkes has a rare ability to see through the eyes of children of all ages." -- Horn Book (starred review) "Enormously appealing." -- School Library Journal (starred review)