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Acclaimed author/illustrator Kevin Henkes spoke to a live audience at Bank Street College of Education in New York City on September 17. The event, which coincided with the publication date of his latest children’s book The Year of Billy Miller (HarperCollins, 2013), was also broadcasted to classrooms and libraries across the country. A question-and-answer period, moderated by Betty Carter, Professor Emerita at Texas Woman’s University, followed Henkes’s presentation about his inspiration and work.
Kevin Henkes holds up his recent middle grade novel, The Year of Billy Miller (HarperCollins, 2013). Photos by Cheryl Simon.
Henkes chats with students from the Bank Street School of Education in New York City.
Henkes and Chrysanthemum (HarperCollins, 1991)
l. to r. Henkes’s current editor Virginia Duncan, Kevin Henkes, Betty Carter (who moderated the question and answer portion of the event), director of Center for Children’s Literature at the Bank Street College of Education Jennifer Brown, and Susan Hirschman (Henkes’s first editor).
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