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When I am asked how I chose to be an illustrator and then an author, I think back to my early childhood. I must have been four or five years old. My family lived in an old house in the middle of the French countryside. My parents loved books and read to us all the time. Sometimes we lit a fire in one of the old fireplaces, especially in the wintertime when it was bitter cold. My mother would read my brothers and I bedtime stories. Often these were Grimm’s fairy tales. Imagine hearing Grimm’s fairy tales by firelight in an... Read More


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Necklace of Raindrops
Written by Joan Aiken
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
eBook

Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all... Read More
 





My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
Written by Bill Grossman
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Trade Paperback

WILD ANIMALS DON’T SCARE Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from Ape to Zebra, whether they like it or not! A newt, an octopus, a porcupine . . . it’s a slimy, slippery, prickly situation. What will Little Sister hug next?... Read More
 





My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
Written by Bill Grossman
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover

A B C D E F G

H I J K L M N O P

My sister’s on a hugging spree!

Hugging her way from A to Z.


Wild animals don’t scare Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from an Ape to a Zebra... Read More
 





My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
Written by Bill Grossman
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover Library Binding

A B C D E F G

H I J K L M N O P

My sister’s on a hugging spree!

Hugging her way from A to Z.


Wild animals don’t scare Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from an Ape to a Zebra... Read More
 





The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes To New York
Written by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover Library Binding

Toddie and his parents are just your average Maine family taking a trip to New York City. Sure, things are a little different for Toddie:
           
He can pick up a train,
paddle over to the Statue of Liberty,
and climb the Empire State Building.
 
But when Toddie accidentally gets separated from his parents and... Read More
 





The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes To New York
Written by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover

Toddie and his parents are just your average Maine family taking a trip to New York City. Sure, things are a little different for Toddie:
           
He can pick up a train,
paddle over to the Statue of Liberty,
and climb the Empire State Building.
 
But when Toddie accidentally gets separated from his parents and... Read More
 





The Wicked Big Toddlah
Written by Kevin Hawkes
Trade Paperback

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The Wicked Big Toddlah
Written by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover

Absolutely nothing exciting happens in Maine . . . nothing, that is, except for the birth of one giant baby. "That's one wicked big toddlah you got there!" exclaims Uncle Bert . . . and so Toddie is named.

Toddie's a baby just like any other . . . sort of. The... Read More
 





The Wicked Big Toddlah
Written by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover Library Binding

Absolutely nothing exciting happens in Maine . . . nothing, that is, except for the birth of one giant baby. "That's one wicked big toddlah you got there!" exclaims Uncle Bert . . . and so Toddie is named.

Toddie's a baby just like any other . . . sort of. The... Read More
 





And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends
Written by Mary Ann Hoberman
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Trade Paperback

In rhyming verse that’s a deliberate homage to Dr. Seuss, poet and picture book author Mary Ann Hoberman takes on quarreling and its consequences, and shows how turning fighters into friends leads to greater peace. It all starts with a fighting brother and sister, who make up with the help of... Read More
 





The Road to Oz
Written by Kathleen Krull
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover

KATHLEEN KRULL’S LIVELY text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the many detours on his road to Oz. A failure as an actor, a breeder of prize chickens, a merchant in a wild west town, among other occupations, he... Read More
 





The Road to Oz
Written by Kathleen Krull
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover Library Binding

KATHLEEN KRULL’S LIVELY text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the many detours on his road to Oz. A failure as an actor, a breeder of prize chickens, a merchant in a wild west town, among other occupations, he... Read More
 





Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
Written by Alan Madison
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover

IT'S HARD TO BE VELMA entering first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders, and no one even notices Velma. But all that changes on a class trip to the butterfly conservatory, a place neither of her sisters has been... Read More
 





Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
Written by Alan Madison
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Hardcover Library Binding

IT'S HARD TO BE VELMA entering first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders, and no one even notices Velma. But all that changes on a class trip to the butterfly conservatory, a place neither of her sisters has been... Read More
 





I Was a Rat!
Written by Philip Pullman
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Trade Paperback

“I Was a Rat!” So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of “Rodent Delusion”? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fairground freak? He is to... Read More
 

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