So Happy!
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
So Happy!
By (Author) Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books
Greenwillow Books
29th June 2005
United States
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage: Social issues / topics
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Wildlife and habitats
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Early years / early learning concepts
813
Winner of Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) (Recommended) 2005
Physical Properties
Hardback
32
Width 258mm, Height 249mm, Spine 9mm
384g
Description
A magic seed. A little rabbit. A narrow creek. A boy. A storm. These are the ingredients for a picture book about the many ways in which sadness can be transformed to happiness; the ways in which fate and chance and nature and invention affect our lives and world. Heady stuff, you say! But in the hands of these two picture book masters, So Happy! is a hypnotic, elemental, bold, and majestically illustrated adventure story about a little boy who wakes up bored . . . and about what happens next.
Author Bio
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.
