Getting better all the time

It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius. Not that it will be news to the many fans of his 37 books or the judges who have made him the rare author-illustrator to have received both a Caldecott Medal (the picture-book prize) and a Newbery Honor (the runner-up children’s fiction prize). And yet he isn’t quite the household name that Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak are, though he should be. Read more about Henkes in this article from The New York Times.