Henry in Love

By Peter McCarty; Peter McCarty (Illustrator)
(Balzer + Bray, Hardcover, 9780061142888, 48pp.)

Publication Date: January 2010

Categories: Animals - Cats, Love & Romance, Social Issues - General

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Peter McCarty has written and illustrated several books for children, including Hondo & Fabian, a 2003 Caldecott Honor Book and New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and its sequel, Fabian Escapes; T is for Terrible; Little Bunny on the Move; and Moon Plane, the 2007 Charlotte Zolotow Award winner. He lives with his family in Clinton Corners, New York.

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With precise figures placed in vignettes on a gorgeous creamy stock, McCarty tells a sweetly simple, utterly sincere schoolyard love story.
-Kirkus Reviews

McCarty nails several aspects of grade-school life (Henry demonstrates his “best forward roll” to impress Chloe) and loads his compact sentences with meaning and longing. This gentle, pitch-perfect romance will have readers’ hearts thumping with the thrill of first love.
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A perfect Valentine’s Day read and a fine picture book about love and friendship the rest of the year. Henry in Love not only illuminates the freshness of a burgeoning friendship in the elementary school set, McCarty’s light-handedness evidences an even deeper love for the ordinary world.
-Boston Globe

All is fair in love and kindergarten....The exquisite cream-colored pages bring richness to the presentation that makes readers want to turn each page. This beautiful book should appeal to the little ones who have a special someone in their lives but dare not say a word about it
-School Library Journal (starred review)

This gentle, pitch-perfect romance will have readers’ hearts thumping with the thrill of first love.
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)