The novel Olive's Ocean was written by Kevin Henkes and was originally published in 2001. It won the 2004 Newbery Honor. The story's idea was taken from Kevin Henkes' question, "What was it like for authors growing up?" Olive's Ocean was 59 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most challenged books from 2000 to 2009 for having "sexually explicit content and offensive language." Source: Wikipedia (en)