PICTURE BOOK - Egg by Kevin Henkes

Illustrated by the author

2017 Greenwillow Books

HC $17.99

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating: 3.97 - 713 ratings

My rating:  4.5

Endpapers: a simple checkerboard of the four pastel colors of the four eggs...looks very Easter-y

My comments: Oh my goodness, what a sweet book!  I didn't know what the surprise would be (I hadn't read any reviews, which are rich with spoilers) and I was really tickled when I got to it.  Simple, charming illustrations using a limited amount of colors AND words ... describing it as a graphic novel for toddlers is perfect.  Perfect and perfectly charming!

Goodreads:  Egg is a graphic novel for preschoolers about four eggs, one big surprise, and an unlikely friendship.

Little White Rabbit - Kevin Henkes

Greenwillow Books, 2011
HC $16.99
for very young kids
32 pgs.
Rating: 4.5
Copyright information is on the bottom of the title page - this is the first time I've seen that.

Two 10 x 10ish square pages facing each other. One is a thick-green-line bordered illustration, the other is the text - just one or two lines - large green font on white-white page. Every so oftrn ther is an edge-to-edge illustration. All the illustrations look like they're outlined in green marker and colored in lightly with colored pencils. Lovely.

As the little white rabbit travels through the surrounding s near his home, he wonders. What would it be like to be green? to be tall? to be immobile? to fly? But he never wonders who loves him.

Gentle. Simple. Lovely.

Birds - Kevin Henkes

Illustrated by Laura Dronzek
For: very young kids
2009
Rating: 5
$17.00
Endpapers: Pink

As I read this book, I knew that writer and illustrator had to have collaborated in its creation. Words and picture totally and completely go together. So when I read on the back flap that "they live with their chilfdren" I had an A-HA moment.

I liked this book. A lot. It really works. It tells short descriptions of what trees - cllouds - the air - look like with and without birds. However, I've got to say, It never "called out" to me. I walked by it in the library and book stores many times before actually picking it up.

"Sometimes, in winter,
a bird in a tree
looks like one red
leaf left over."
(It's a cardinal-on a bare tree-in the snow.)

One question. Why pink endpapers? Bleck!