He’s best-known for his picture books, especially KITTEN’S FIRST FULL MOON, which won the Caldecott in 2005, along with several other prizes. He’s good at creating a picture with words that evokes the perfect image in the mind’s eye. His sentences are so precious, so descriptive, that I just wanted to scoop them up and let them sit on my tongue to melt like drops of sugar. Kevin Henkes has a beautiful way of writing. This will definitely be a summer for Alice to remember, but will those memories be good ones or tarnish her love of a place she’s always loved? To top it all off, her favorite aunt shows up-but with her new boyfriend and his five-year-old brat, Mallory. First, some older kids can no longer come on vacation due to a heightened course load at school, then her favorite artist gets stranded due to a snow storm. Ages 8 12.Show More ten years old, double-digits! She’s excited beyond belief, but that emotion quickly tapers off as she realizes that this year won’t be the same as previous ones. Images of the beach and the moving, meaningful interactions between characters will linger with readers. Readers will empathize with Alice's frustrations and relish her moments of joy. Like her disappointments, Alice's discoveries aren't what she expects, but her understanding of people both old friends and new acquaintances deepens during the process. Finding a junonia would be the perfect gift"). Swallowing her disappointment, Alice still believes that her vacation will be a success if only she can find the rare shell she most covets, the junonia ("After all, she was going to be ten. Some of the people Alice is looking forward to seeing are missing, and the neighboring cabin usually rented to a fun artist from New York is now occupied by a friend of Alice's mother, her new boyfriend, and his moody and disruptive six-year-old daughter. Every year Alice Rice and her parents take a trip to Florida's Sanibel Island, but this year things are different. In this introspective story about a child's search for a rare shell, Henkes (Bird Lake Moon) again displays his ability to find profound meaning in ordinary events.
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