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About the Author

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.

Praise for Henry in Love…

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)