# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-henkes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:01:41.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-henkes"
name: "Kevin Henkes"
slug: "kevin-henkes"
description: "Kevin Henkes is an American author of children's books. He is known for writing and illustrating picture books, the most notable of which feature young anthropomorphic mice as their main characters. Henkes also writes middle-grade fiction. As an illustrator, he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). Two of Henkes's books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, Olive's Ocean in 2004 and The Year of Billy Miller in 2014. His picture book Waiting was named both a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. It was only the second time any author has won that combination of awards."
tagline: "American children's illustrator and writer (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kevin_Henkes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-11-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.042300000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377085/"
    handle:    "nm0377085"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kevinhenkes.com"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كيڤين هينكيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kevin Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Henkes"
    title: "Kevin Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "کوین هنکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Henkes"
    title: "Kevin Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ケヴィン・ヘンクス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kevin Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کیون ہینکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6396491"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3041571"
    title: "Kevin Henkes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump