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Kevin Hawkes

Kevin Hawkes is the author and illustrator of The Wicked Big Toddlah and The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes to New York, and is the illustrator of many well-loved books for young readers including Imagine That:! How Dr. Seuss Wrote the Cat in the Hat, Library Lion, My Little Sister Ate One Hare, My Little Sister Hugged an Ape, And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends, The Road to OzVelma Gratch, and The Way Cool Butterfly. He lives in Gorham, Maine.
Imagine That!
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
The Wicked Big Toddlah
My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
The Haunting of Granite Falls
Not Just a Witch
Journey to the River Sea
Dial-a-Ghost
I Was a Rat!
Island of the Aunts
My Little Sister Ate One Hare

Books

Imagine That!
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
The Wicked Big Toddlah
My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
The Haunting of Granite Falls
Not Just a Witch
Journey to the River Sea
Dial-a-Ghost
I Was a Rat!
Island of the Aunts
My Little Sister Ate One Hare

Beautiful Noise

Open this unique picture book and meet John Cage, the pioneering, inspiring composer who believed all sound—from the crash of a slamming door to the whirr of a blender to the whoosh of the wind—was music. For John Cage, music was everywhere: in the hum of the refrigerator, the screech of a garbage truck, the patter of the rain. But other people disagreed. They

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