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Owen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner

by Kevin Henkes

A beloved blanket, a new school chapter

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Caldecott Honor Book

    The source identifies Owen as a Caldecott Honor Book.

  • Author recognition

    Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon

    The source says Kevin Henkes was awarded the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon, a different book.

  • Critical praise

    Booklist starred review

    Booklist gives the book a starred review and says, “Owen is everychild.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

A beloved blanket, a new school chapter

Owen’s fuzzy yellow blanket is part of his everyday life, and the prospect of starting school brings a question for his family: does Fuzzy have to go? When a neighbor offers advice about letting the blanket go, Owen resists each attempt to separate them. His mother finds a compromise that addresses the concerns around school while respecting Owen’s attachment. The story centers on comfort, growing up, and how families can navigate differing ideas about when a child is ready to move on. A letter to readers from Kevin Henkes is also included.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children attached to a favorite blanket or other comfort object
  • Families sharing a story about starting school and making compromises
  • Adults seeking a picture book about children’s feelings and growing up

Themes

Comfort objectsGrowing upStarting schoolCompromiseFamily relationships

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Book overview

A Caldecott Honor Book

"Owen is everychild." --Booklist (starred review)

Owen's fuzzy yellow blanket goes where he goes, even when others think he is too old for it. Will Owen's blanket go to school? A classic, evergreen, Caldecott Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor picture book about comfort and compromise from #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author Kevin Henkes. Includes a letter to readers from Kevin Henkes.

"Owen had a fuzzy yellow blanket. He'd had it since he was a baby. He loved it with all his heart."

Owen's blanket is his favorite possession. Everywhere he goes, Fuzzy goes with him. Upstairs, downstairs, in-between. Inside, outside, upside down. Everywhere! When Owen is about to start school, their neighbor offers advice to Owen's parents about how to get rid of Fuzzy, but Owen foils each attempt. Then his mother comes up with the perfect plan that makes everyone happy.

Any child who relies on a comfort object will instantly relate to Owen. This is a story about compromise that speaks both to those not yet ready to let go and those who have moved on. The repetitive, rhythmic text is perfect for reading aloud and story times, and the artwork, in Owen and in all of Kevin Henkes's mouse books, is playful, funny, inviting, and timeless. School Library Journal says, "Most children have a beloved possession that adults expect them to give up, and Owen is sure to become their champion."

Kevin Henkes is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been awarded the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon, two Caldecott Honors, two Newbery Honors, two Geisel Honors, the Children's Literature Lecture Award, and Children's Literature Legacy Award, among numerous other honors. Favorites from his body of work include the picture books Waiting, A Parade of Elephants, and The World and Everything In It, and the novels for middle grade readers Olive's Ocean, Bird Lake Moon, and the Miller Family Stories.

Kevin Henkes's classic and bestselling mouse books include:

 

  • Chester's Way
  • Chrysanthemum
  • Julius, the Baby of the World
  • Lilly's Big Day
  • Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
  • Owen
  • Sheila Rae, the Brave
  • Wemberly Worried
  • A Weekend with Wendell
  • Penny and Her Marble, Penny and Her Sled, Penny and Her Song, Penny and Her Doll (Level 1 I Can Reads)
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