Kevin HenkesAuthor & Illustrator
Cover of All Alone by Kevin Henkes

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All Alone

Kevin Henkes

When you are alone, you can do all sorts of things—pretend you are tiny (or enormous), hear things other people can’t hear, and see things they can’t see. Being alone—every once in a while—is just fine.

All Alone was Kevin Henkes’s first picture book.

Kevin Henkes’s first picture book

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Awards & recognition

  • Publishers Weekly Best Book School Library Journal Best Book New York Time Best Illustrated Book New York Public Library’s “One Hundrerd Titles for Reading and Sharing” Caldecott Medal ALA Notable Children’s Book Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books) Texas 2X2 Reading List Charlotte Zolotow Award Book Sense Pick

What the critics said

praise from the pages of the reviews

“This brief and charming picture book explores the experience of being by one’s self not as something to be feared but as a time to think and feel and to look at things in a new way. The author’s sensitive illustrations carry out the idea perfectly.” – The New Yorker”

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