by Kevin Henkes · Everest · tapa dura · ISBN 9789895004607
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«Owen» is the children's picture book by Kevin Henkes, published by Everest in hardback (24 pages, in Portuguese).
Fuzzy, the yellow blanket of the little mouse Owen, is his most precious possession and he goes nowhere without it. When he is about to start school, a neighbour advises his parents on how to get him to let it go, but Owen foils every attempt.
Part of the Mouse Books series by Kevin Henkes. The work was originally published in 1993; this edition is from 2005.
For young children about to start school and for parents who want to understand childhood attachment to transitional objects.
Kevin Henkes is an American author of children's books. He is known for writing and illustrating picture books, the most notable of which feature young anthropomorphic mice as their main characters. Henkes also writes middle-grade fiction. As an illustrator, he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). Two of Henkes's books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, Olive's Ocean in 2004 and The Year of Billy Miller in 2014. His picture book Waiting was named both a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. It was only the second time any author has won that combination of awards.
