TITLE: Owen
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: Kevin Henkes
GENRE: Humor
THEME: New Experiences
AWARDS: This book is a Caldecott Honor Book.
CHARACTERS: Owen, his parents, and the neighbor
PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY: This book was published in 1993 by the William Morrow & Company, Inc.
SUMMARY: This book is about growing up and learning that you can't always keep what you had as a young child with. This can be hard for some children. In the book, Owen loves to take his fuzzy blanket everywhere with him. He spills alot on it, so it makes it hard for his parents to be willing to give it back after they wash it because of how dirty he gets it. The nosey neighbor tries to give her two cents worth about how to get rid of the blanket. First she suggests the blanket fairy, which is very similar to the tooth fairy. Then there is the vinigar trick, all Owen's parents had to do was dip the corner of the blanket he liked to suck on in vinager and bam, he wouldn't use it. Well, the neighbor was wrong about that too. Eventually the parents even tried saying no, but that didn't work either. In the end the mother decided that by just cutting the blanket up in to hankercheifs it would get the job done.
I don't think that I would read this to my class, when I read the description on the library's website I thought this would be a good book about growing up and going to school. While the book is about that, it focuses too much on the blanket for my tastes.
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