Billy Miller Makes a Wish

Billy Miller Makes a Wish
Kevin Henkes
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NZ$ 16.99
Paperback
h203 x 140mm - 192pg
26 May 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780063042803
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Billy Miller is back! The stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes' s award-winning, acclaimed, and bestselling The Year of Billy Miller, Billy Miller Makes a Wish is a laugh-out-loud funny and accessible story about summer, family, and wishes that (almost) come true. A great choice for young middle grade readers. Billy Miller Makes a Wish is illustrated in black-and-white throughout by the author, and is perfect for fans of the Ramona books and the Clementine series. On his birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. But he immediately regrets his wish when an ambulance rushes to his neighbor' s house. Is Billy responsible Award-winning author Kevin Henkes delivers a short, funny, and emotionally complex novel complete with misplaced love letters, surprising critters, art projects, misguided tattoos-and another surprise for Billy and his family, maybe the best one yet!Illustrated throughout with black-and-white art by the author, this is a perfect novel for the early elementary grades and an essential choice for summer reading. A stand-alone companion to The Year of BillyMiller, a Newbery Honor Book.
"Billy Miller' s birthday wish, for ' something exciting [to] happen,' attunes him to all kinds of excitement in his life. . . . Henkes' s focus on small transitions in growing up and seeing the world acknowledges and celebrates the complex emotional life of childhood. Billy' s year of being 8 begins like a leaf unfolding, slow and steady . . . The sweet surprise of the summer, revealed when Papa returns, promises new and interesting chapters in Billy' s life. Full of heart and depth. " -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Kevin Henkes is the author and illustrator of more than fifty critically acclaimed and award-winning picture books, beginning readers, and novels. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten' s First Full Moon in 2005, and Waiting won a Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor in 2016. Kevin Henkes is also the creator of a number of picture books featuring his mouse characters, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Lilly' s Big Day and Wemberly Worried, the Caldecott Honor Book Owen, and the beloved Lilly' s Purple Plastic Purse. His most recent mouse character, Penny, was introduced in Penny and Her Song; her story continued in Penny and Her Doll and Penny and Her Marble (a Geisel Honor Book). Bruce Handy, in a New York Times Book Review piece about A Good Day, wrote, "It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius. " Kevin Henkes received two Newbery Honors for novels-one for The Year of Billy Miller, and the other for Olive' s Ocean. Also among his fiction for older readers are the novels Junonia, Bird Lake Moon, The Birthday Room, and Sun & Spoon. Kevin Henkes has been published by Greenwillow Books since the release of his first book, All Alone, in 1981. His fiftieth book, the picture book Egg, was published in January 2017. Most recently, he is the author of In the Middle of Fall, Winter Is Here, Summer Song, A Parade of Elephants, Sweeping Up the Heart, and Penny and Her Sled. He lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. www. kevinhenkes. com.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780063042803
Published: 26 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Greenwillow Books
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 140mm
Weight: 254g
Pages: 192

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