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More than sixty books since 1981 — picture books to hold in your lap, mouse books for growing readers, and short novels for the chapter-book years. Browse the whole library, or start with one of the three great shelves.

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Three shelves

Picture books, mice, and novels

Where will you begin reading?

Each shelf has its own voice. The picture books are for sharing. The mouse books are old friends in fur. The novels are for staying up a little later.

Picture Books

A gallery of picture books

Caldecott-winning turn-the-page adventures and quiet seasonal poems for the youngest readers.

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Mouse Books

The mouse family

Lilly, Chrysanthemum, Owen, Penny & friends — brave, bossy, worried and wonderful.

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Novels

Stories for older pages

Billy Miller, Olive, Amelia & more — short, funny, luminous middle-grade novels.

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2026Picture Books

Is It Spring?

Is It Spring? On Sale February 24, 2026

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2024Picture Books

Finding Things

Finding Things On Sale Now

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2024Novels

Still Sal

A stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes’s award-winning and acclaimed The Year of Billy…

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2023Picture Books

The World and Everything In It

There are big things and little things in the world, and everything in between. Caldecott Medal winner and #1 New York…

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2022Picture Books

Little Houses

From award-winning and bestselling author Kevin Henkes and the acclaimed painter Laura Dronzek, Little Houses is an…

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2022Novels

Oh, Sal

A stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes’s award-winning, bestselling, and acclaimed The…

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2021Picture Books

A House

Caldecott Medal–winner and #1 New York Times–bestselling author Kevin Henkes explores what it means to be at home in…

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2021Novels

Billy Miller Makes a Wish

Billy Miller is back! The stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes’s award-winning,…

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2020Picture Books

Sun Flower Lion

A sun. A flower. And a lion. With three visual motifs, three colors, and fewer than 200 words, renowned Caldecott…

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2020Picture Books

Summer Song

From Caldecott Medalist and Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes and acclaimed painter Laura Dronzek, the bestselling and…

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2020Mouse Books

Lilly & Friends

A Picture Book Treasury Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes

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2019Mouse Books

Penny and Her Sled

Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes’s award-winning and bestselling mouse, Penny, stars in an irresistible story about…

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2019Novels

Sweeping Up the Heart

From two-time Newbery Honor and New York Times-bestselling author Kevin Henkes, this timeless novel about loss,…

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2018Picture Books

A Parade of Elephants

New York Times–bestselling and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes follows five joyful elephants as they march from dawn…

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2018Picture Books

Winter Is Here

From Caldecott Medalist and Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes and acclaimed painter Laura Dronzek, the bestselling and…

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2017Picture Books

In the Middle of Fall

Everything is yellow, red, orange. Everything is chilly, frisky, gusty. Everything is changing, turning.

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Cover of Egg, a picture books by Kevin Henkes

2017Picture Books

Egg

Four eggs. One big surprise! Crack… Crack… Crack

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2016Picture Books

When Spring Comes

When it is cold and snowy and bleak and brown, Spring seems very far away. But, if you wait, soon you will see leaves…

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Cover of Waiting, a picture books by Kevin Henkes

2015Picture Books

Caldecott Honor

Waiting

Five animal friends sit patiently on a windowsill, waiting and watching the world outside. The owl waits for the moon;…

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Cover of Penny and Her Marble, a mouse books by Kevin Henkes

2013Mouse Books

Geisel Honor

Penny and Her Marble

Penny found a marble as blue and perfect as the sky. The marble is smooth and the marble is fast, but the marble does…

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Cover of The Year of Billy Miller, a novels by Kevin Henkes

2013Novels

Newbery Honor

The Year of Billy Miller

Billy Miller visits the statue of the Jolly Green Giant at the end of summer vacation, he has an unlucky fall and ends…

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2012Mouse Books

Penny and Her Doll

When Penny receives a surprise box in the mail from Gram, she is thrilled. The surprise is a doll, and she is…

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2012Mouse Books

Penny and Her Song

When Penny comes home from school, she is ready to sing her song. But the babies are sleeping, and Mama and Papa are…

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2011Picture Books

Little White Rabbit

Little White Rabbit wonders about everything. What would it be like to be green, like the grass? Or tall like the fir…

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2011Novels

Junonia

Returning to the beach cottage—a cottage named Scallop—where she has always celebrated her birthday is a special…

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2010Picture Books

My Garden

A girl helps out in her mother’s garden, but in the garden of her imagination, there are chocolate rabbits, tomatoes…

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2009Picture Books

Birds

Birds come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Birds are magic. Birds are everywhere. If you listen very carefully you…

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2008Picture Books

Old Bear

Old Bear lumbers to his cave to hibernate till spring. In his dreams, he is a cub again, exploring the seasons—summer,…

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2008Novels

Bird Lake Moon

When two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Mitch feels…

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2007Picture Books

A Good Day

It started out as a bad day for little yellow bird, little white dog, little orange fox, and little brown squirrel.…

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2006Mouse Books

Lilly’s Big Day

Mr. Slinger has big news. He’s getting married. Married!

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Cover of Kitten’s First Full Moon, a picture books by Kevin Henkes

2004Picture Books

Caldecott Medal

Kitten’s First Full Moon

It is Kitten’s first full moon, and when she sees it, she thinks it is a bowl of milk in the sky. And she wants it.…

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2004Mouse Books

A Box of Treats

Five little picture books about Lilly and her friends to share all year long.

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2003Mouse Books

Julius’s Candy Corn

When can waiting for a party be both a trick and a treat? Just ask Julius!

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2003Mouse Books

Lilly’s Chocolate Heart

Lilly loves her chocolate heart. Will she save it? Forever and ever? What do you think?

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2003Mouse Books

Wemberly’s Ice-Cream Star

One hot summer day Wemberly finds that patience—just like a frosty treat—will go a long way.

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Cover of Olive’s Ocean, a novels by Kevin Henkes

2003Novels

Newbery Honor

Olive’s Ocean

Martha didn’t know Olive—not really. But when Olive is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and her mother gives Martha a…

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2002Mouse Books

Owen’s Marshmallow Chick

“My favorite,” said Owen when he saw the marshmallow chick.

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2001Mouse Books

Sheila Rae’s Peppermint Stick

One peppermint stick. Two sisters. See sibling rivalry turn to sweet solidarity.

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2000Mouse Books

Wemberly Worried

Wemberly worried about everything.

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1999Novels

The Birthday Room

When Ben’s sixth birthday is interrupted by a terrible accident, his family leaves the farm and his beloved…

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1998Picture Books

Circle Dogs

The circle dogs live in a big, square house with a big, square yard. See the dogs? See the circles? And even the…

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1997Novels

Sun and Spoon

Spoon needed something special of Gram’s—something to remember her by. He wasn’t quite sure what the something was,…

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1996Mouse Books

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

Lilly loves all sorts of things. She loves school, she loves dressing up, she even grows to love her stinky baby…

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1995Picture Books

The Biggest Boy

Billy is a big boy who can do all sorts of things by himself. And when his parents tell him he is growing bigger every…

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1995Picture Books

Good-Bye, Curtis

Curtis has been delivering mail for forty-two years. Today is his last day. And all the mailboxes along his route are…

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1995Novels

Protecting Marie

“Fanny sensed that from the moment she was born she was meant to have a dog. It was as though some unique and…

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Cover of Owen, a mouse books by Kevin Henkes

1993Mouse Books

Caldecott Honor

Owen

Owen’s fuzzy yellow blanket is his favorite possession. Everywhere Owen goes, his blanket goes with him. Upstairs,…

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1992Novels

Words of Stone

Blaze Werla is having a typical summer. He lives in the country and spends his days alone, wandering around the hill…

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1991Mouse Books

Chrysanthemum

She was a perfect baby, and she had a perfect name. Chrysanthemum. When she was old enough to appreciate it,…

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1988Mouse Books

Chester’s Way

There is only one way for Chester to do things—his own way. “You definitely have a mind of your own,” said Chester’s…

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1988Novels

The Zebra Wall

The Vorlob family is making preparations for the new baby, soon to arrive. Adine, age ten, is used to the routine—she…

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1987Mouse Books

Sheila Rae, the Brave

Sheila Rae has a little sister called Louise. Sometimes she won’t share things with Louise, and sometimes she looks…

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1987Novels

Two Under Par

It seemed to ten-year-old Wedge that most of the time nothing made sense anymore. Suddenly he had a brand-new…

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1986Picture Books

Grandpa & Bo

A new edition of this favorite Kevin Henkes title celebrating the love between a boy and his grandfather.

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1986Mouse Books

A Weekend With Wendell

Wendell was spending the weekend at Sophie’s house. Playing house, Wendell was the mother, the father, and the…

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1985Picture Books

Bailey Goes Camping

Bruce and Betty were going camping. Bailey had to stay home. “You’re too little,” said his brother. “You can go in a…

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1981Picture Books

All Alone

When you are alone, you can do all sorts of things—pretend you are tiny (or enormous), hear things other people can’t…

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Mouse Books

Julius, the Baby of the World

The riotously funny Lilly, last seen in Chester’s Way (Greenwillow), thinks her new baby brother, Julius, is…

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