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2004 children's picture book by Kevin Henkes

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Kitten's First Full Moon

Author	Kevin Henkes
Illustrator	Kevin Henkes
Cover artist	Henkes
Genre	Children's book
Publisher	Greenwillow Books/Harper Collins Publishers
Publication date	2004
Publication place	United States
Pages	31
ISBN	0-06-058828-4
OCLC	52386414
Dewey Decimal	21
LC Class	PZ7.H389 Ki 2004

Kitten's First Full Moon is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes. Published in 2004, the book tells the story of a kitten who thinks the moon is a bowl of milk and tries many different attempts to drink it. Henkes won the 2005 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations. The book is in black and white and typeset in sans-serif. The idea came from a line in another book by Henkes, "The cat thought the moon was a bowl of milk." Henkes gradually expanded on that for Kitten's First Full Moon.

Plot

One night, a hungry female kitten sees a full moon for the first time and thinks it's a bowl of milk. She stretches up to get it, only to get a bug on her tongue and fall down the stairs. She then chases it but doesn't get closer, so she climbs a tall tree, but still couldn't reach it. Kitten becomes scared but then sees the pond and thinks it's another bowl of milk, so she climbs down from the tree and jumps in. A tired, unhappy and hungry kitten returns home to find a bowl of milk sitting on the porch waiting for her, and a lucky kitten goes to sleep.

Awards and honors

In 2017, the American Booksellers Association inducted Kitten's First Full Moon into their Picture Book Hall of Fame.

Awards for *Kitten's First Full Moon*
Year	Award	Result
2004	Betty Ren Wright Children's Picture Book Award	Honorable Mention
2005	Caldecott Medal	Winner
	Charlotte Zolotow Award	Winner
	Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for Children's Picture Book	Winner

References

American Library Association: Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present Archived 2011-10-18 at the Wayback Machine. URL accessed 27 May 2009.
"Awards: Indies Choice; E.B. White Read-Aloud; Dylan Thomas". Shelf Awareness. 2017-05-11. Archived from the original on 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
"Contest History & Past Winners". Council for Wisconsin Writers. Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
Clark, Larra; Morales, Macey (2005-01-17). "American Library Association announces award winners". American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
"Charlotte Zolotow Award (for Outstanding Writing in Picture Books)". Cooperative Children's Book Center. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
"First Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards". Shelf Awareness. 2005-08-01. Archived from the original on 2017-10-01. Retrieved 2023-04-04.

Awards
Preceded byThe Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Caldecott Medal recipient 2005	Succeeded byThe Hello, Goodbye Window

v t e Caldecott Medal–winning works
1938–1950	Animals of the Bible (1938) Mei Li (1939) Abraham Lincoln (1940) They Were Strong and Good (1941) Make Way for Ducklings (1942) The Little House (1943) Many Moons (1944) Prayer for a Child (1945) The Rooster Crows (1946) The Little Island (1947) White Snow, Bright Snow (1948) The Big Snow (1949) Song of the Swallows (1950)
1951–1975	The Egg Tree (1951) Finders Keepers (1952) The Biggest Bear (1953) Madeline's Rescue (1954) Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1955) Frog Went A-Courtin' (1956) A Tree Is Nice (1957) Time of Wonder (1958) Chanticleer and the Fox (1959) Nine Days to Christmas (1960) Baboushka and the Three Kings (1961) Once a Mouse (1962) The Snowy Day (1963) Where the Wild Things Are (1964) May I Bring a Friend? (1965) Always Room for One More (1966) Sam, Bangs & Moonshine (1967) Drummer Hoff (1968) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1969) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1970) A Story, a Story (1971) One Fine Day (1972) The Funny Little Woman (1973) Duffy and the Devil (1974) Arrow to the Sun (1975)
1976–2000	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (1976) Ashanti to Zulu (1977) Noah's Ark (1978) The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (1979) Ox-Cart Man (1980) Fables (1981) Jumanji (1982) Shadow (1983) The Glorious Flight (1984) Saint George and the Dragon (1985) The Polar Express (1986) Hey, Al (1987) Owl Moon (1988) Song and Dance Man (1989) Lon Po Po (1990) Black and White (1991) Tuesday (1992) Mirette on the High Wire (1993) Grandfather's Journey (1994) Smoky Night (1995) Officer Buckle and Gloria (1996) Golem (1997) Rapunzel (1998) Snowflake Bentley (1999) Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (2000)
2001–present	So You Want to Be President? (2001) The Three Pigs (2002) My Friend Rabbit (2003) The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2004) Kitten's First Full Moon (2005) The Hello, Goodbye Window (2006) Flotsam (2007) The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2008) The House in the Night (2009) The Lion & the Mouse (2010) A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2011) A Ball for Daisy (2012) This is Not My Hat (2013) Locomotive (2014) The Adventures of Beekle (2015) Finding Winnie (2016) Radiant Child (2017) Wolf in the Snow (2018) Hello Lighthouse (2019) The Undefeated (2020) We Are Water Protectors (2021) Watercress (2022) Hot Dog (2023) Big (2024)

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