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Booklist - 08/01/1993 *Starred Review* Like the kids in Jessica (1989) and Chrysanthemum (1991), Owen the mouse is a sturdy and vulnerable individual, and he is everychild. This time Henkes’ droll, gentle picture book is about the toddler’s fierce attachment to his security blanket. Simple, lovely words with pen and watercolor illustrations show and tell us that Owen loves his fuzzy yellow blanket with all his heart. “He carried it. And wore it. And dragged it. He sucked it. And hugged it. And twisted it.” Fuzzy likes what Owen likes and bears the proof of it, from chocolate milk to peanut butter. When busybody neighbor Mrs. Tweezers suggests to Owen’s parents that Owen is old enough to give up Fuzzy, Owen is terrified, but he outwits all their tricks. The blanket goes where he goes: in the bathtub, at the dinner table, to the dentist. But then comes the crisis: How will he go to school? There’s no condescension or sentimentality. With a few simple lines, Henkes can transform Owen’s nonchalant play into a shocked stillness, his terror expressed in his wide-staring eyes. Perhaps the most memorable frame of all shows Owen snugly enfolded with his scrappy blanket in the heavy, embracing curves of his bedclothes. Henkes’ story takes us into the physical immediacy of a small child’s day, and kids will recognize both the screaming anguish and the mischief. - Copyright 1993 Booklist.

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