Owen

Author - Kevin Henkes ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Greenwillow was reviewed on 24-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Owen by Greenwillow. Owen clearly has a problem. Kevin Henkes doesn´t shy away from letting us know, through the illustrations, that his problem is a buttinsky neighbor.

Unfortunately, Owen´s parents listen to their neighbor and keep taking her dubious advice about his blanket. Of course, Owen really *can´t* bring his blanket to school - but his parents finally stop thinking of Mrs. Tweezers´ view of things and come up with a bright idea - they turn Fuzzy into handkerchiefs! Perfect solution and everybody´s happy.

Great ending, and I do love Owen´s passive resistance to his parent´s obsession.¤

2) Hardcover Book Owen by Greenwillow. We give children´s books as presents for new babies. This is a special book that will be reserved for our daughter at the event (if) of her first child.¤

3) Hardcover Book Owen by Greenwillow. Absolutely love all the Kevin Henkes books we have, This is especially cute because we have a boy who loves his blankie. I know a lot of little girls who love Lilly...but I would definitely recommend this and Chester´s Way for the boys!¤

4) Hardcover Book Owen by Greenwillow. for a child of any age that has a favorite blanket (blankey)
a plot a young child can follow and relate to.¤

5) Hardcover Book Owen by Greenwillow.

I read Owen. I would recommend this book. The reason I would recommend it is because it was funny and it made me crack me up. In the book Owen, Owen and Fuzzy were playing captain plunger. They looked silly. This helped me convince me that it was a grate book.
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6) Hardcover Book Owen by Greenwillow.

Owen had a fuzzy yellow blanket. "Fuzzy goes where I go," said Owen. But Mrs. Tweezers disagreed. She thought Owen was too old for a blanket. Owen disagreed. No matter what Mrs. Tweezers came up with, Blanket Fairies or vinegar, Owen had the answer. But when school started, Owen´t mother knew just what to do, and everyone -- Owen, Fuzzy, and even Mrs. Tweezers -- was happy.

7) Hardcover Book Owen by Greenwillow. The clinical name is transitional object, but for young children, a beloved blanket is more like a lifeline. And that´s exactly how Owen feels about his baby blanket, fondly named Fuzzy. The Owen-Fuzzy relationship is cruising along smoothly until a nosy neighbor, Mrs. Tweezers, leans over the fence and asks his parents, "Isn´t he getting a little old to be carrying that thing around?" With kindergarten just around the corner, Owen´s parents wonder if he should in fact relinquish his prized Fuzzy. Kevin Henkes uses his signature mouse characters and jewel-tone watercolors to explore the antics and foils of one mouse-boy, one rag-blanket, and two parents wondering how to help their son kick the habit. This is what Henkes does best--playfully bringing childhood fears and feelings to the surface while portraying real-life parent-child tensions. Mrs. Tweezers, a real sourpuss, is no help at all. She offers terrible over-the-fence advice, such as dipping Fuzzy in vinegar (as if to cure a nail-biting habit) or stealing the blanket in the night.

It is not until the eve of Owen´s first day of kindergarten that his mother hatches the perfect solution. Ultimately, she finds a way that Owen can hang on to his first true love while also taking the next step into middle childhood--a solution that suits everyone, including Mrs. Tweezers. Caldecott Honor Book, Horn Book Fanfare Honor List, ALA Notable Book, Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, ALA Booklist Children´s Editors´ Choice. (Ages 3 and older) --Gail Hudson¤

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