Toon Review: The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
The Year of Billy Miller
By Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins)
ISBN: 9780062268150
$16.99
Grades 2-4
In Stores September 17, 2013
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Digital review copy from Edelweiss.
Also reviewed by For Those About to Mock, A Fuse #8 Production, Waking Brain Cells, Sal’s Fiction Addiction, Daydream Reader.
“The Henk” nickname credit:
I think we should start referring to Kevin Henkes as “The Henk.”
— About to Mock (@abouttomock) July 10, 2013
Filed under: *Best New Books*, Reviews, Toon Reviews
About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Hooray for the return of the toon reviews! It’s been too long.
I now insist that someone make a “The Henk Is Listening” t-shirt. Please.
It feels good, Fuse, it feels good.
And I’m with you on the shirt
So love it! I want a shirt, too!
So awesome (she said belatedly, upon her return from the beach).
Though I picture the process as being more like the Skeksis draining the essence of a Podling in the Dark Crystal.
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It’s amazing the simplest characters are the ones that really sticks to our minds. I guess the complicated drawings are too much for us to handle sometimes.