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By Mini GreyIt’s wonderful to be in Boston to accept this award. Thank you to the Horn Book and the Boston Globe, and to the judging panel and to my fabulous publishing teams at Knopf in the U.S. and Random House in the U.K., and to all the dedicated fans...
Best books of 2005Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksTerrific written and illustrated by Jon Agee (di Capua/Hyperion)Glass-half-empty Eugene is stranded on an island with a parrot: “‘Terrific . . . What good is a parrot?’...
Best books of 2004Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksHome illustrated by Jeannie Baker (Greenwillow)An urban neighborhood’s dramatic change — for the better — is chronicled in this wordless picture book’s detailed collages....
The two oldest forms of storytelling — words and images — meet and merge in picture books. A well-placed word can leave you elated or it can break your heart. Pictures can evoke peals of laughter or cries of outrage. A fundamental, some would argue inherent, understanding of both of...
Best books of 2003Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksThe Shape Game written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (Farrar)A family outing to the art museum looks unpromising, until the experience proves transformative in...
A second look at Where the Wild Things Are? Forty years after Maurice Sendak’s early mid-career masterpiece first appeared on the fall 1963 Harper list, the suggestion still feels premature. Turning to the book now, the most striking thing about it remains its undatable, fresh-as-paint immediacy. However familiar the Sendak...
Incredible as it sounds, at least to me, I have been involved with young adult literature for thirty-three years now, which makes me and the genre almost exact contemporaries. It began in 1967–68, and I began working with it in 1970. This entitles me, I suppose, to call myself a...
Best books of 2002Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksA Bit More Bert written by Allan Ahlberg;illustrated by Raymond Briggs (Farrar)Our child-man hero is back in six more chapters — and we are...
Best books of 2001Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksMilo’s Hat Trick written and illustrated by Jon Agee (di Capua/Hyperion)The Adventures of Bert written by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Raymond Briggs (Farrar)My Car...
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