Kirkus (Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2005 (Vol. 73, No. 8))
A lad gets around a predilection for doing things halfway in this jocular ditty. Hank A. Mezzomezzo's lawn is half-mown, his bedroom tidy on just one side; he wears but one skate and cuts figure fours on it. When his town's Hoe-Down Days roll around, he creates chaos in the egg race by trying to use a half-spoon, and discovers that half of a canoe just won't float. Davis supplies freckled figures with his trademark oversized, pop-eyed heads. Hank starts out with a confident look, loses his grin after a succession of misadventures, then finally regains it after figuring out that all he has to do to finish a hundred meter race (thus also appeasing his steaming big sister Demi) is to convince himself that it's a two hundred meter race. It works like a charm: "When he reached the halfway mark, / Hank passed it like a missile! / The judge was so surprised, / He blew his nose and picked his whistle." No overt moralizing here, but young readers with Hank-like habits will surely finish the whole thing. 2005, HarperCollins, 40p, $15.99. Category: Picture book. Ages 6 to 8. © 2005 Kirkus Reviews/VNU eMedia, Inc. All rights reserved.

Terri Christian (The Lorgnette - Heart of Texas Reviews, (Vol. 18, No. 2))
Halfway Hank does things only halfway. He rides a bike with only half a seat. He wears only one skate and cannot do a figure eight--he does a figure four instead. This is a funny book that lets students know it is okay to be different. Fiction. Grades K-3. 2005, HarperCollins, Unpaged., $16.89. Ages 5 to 9.