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Best books of 2000Chosen 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 BooksButtons written and illustrated by Brock Cole (Farrar)A Cake for Herbie written and illustrated by Petra Mathers (Schwartz/Atheneum)Madlenka written and illustrated by Peter Sis...
Best books of 1999Chosen 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 BooksBenny’s Had Enough! written by Barbro Lindgren, illustrated by Olof Landström (R&S/Farrar)What! Cried Granny: An Almost Bedtime Story written by Kate Lum, illustrated by...
Speakby Laurie Halse AndersonMiddle School, High School Farrar 198 pp. g10/99 ISBN 0-374-37152-0 $16.00Speaking out at the “wrong” time — calling 911 from a teen drinking party — has made Melinda a social outcast; now she barely speaks at all. A conversation with her...
Best books of 1998Chosen 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 BooksArlene Alda’s 1 2 3: What Do You See? written and illustrated with photographs by Arlene Alda (Tricycle Press)And If the Moon Could Talk...
Mordicai Gerstein The Wild Boy: Based on the True Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron; illus. by the author40 pp. Foster/Farrar 9/98 ISBN 0-374-38431-2 16.00 (Younger)Mordicai Gerstein Victor: A Novel Based on the Life of the Savage of Aveyron258 pp. Foster/Farrar 9/98 ISBN 0-374-38142-9 17.00 g (Older)In a brief...
Holesby Louis SacharIntermediate, Older Foster/Farrar 235 pp.9/98 ISBN 0-374-33265-7 $16.00 gMany years ago I heard a long — very long — shaggy dog story involving a couple of grumpy people, a plane, a train, a brick, a dog, and a cigar. It must have gone on for forty-five minutes or...
By James Cross GiblinRussell Freedman might well have had a successful career in broadcast journalism, following in the footsteps of reporters like Edward R. Murrow. His deep, rather solemn voice, lightened by frequent touches of humor, makes him a compelling speaker. One attendee at a recent Clarion sales conference, hearing...
Best books of 1997Chosen 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 BooksBaboon written by Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben (Foster/Farrar)A Small Miracle written and illustrated by Peter Collington (Knopf)Noah Makes a Boat written by...
Best books of 1996Chosen 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 BooksGoose written and illustrated by Molly Bang (Blue Sky/Scholastic)Clown illustrated by Quentin Blake (Holt)Night Driving written by Jon Coy, illustrated by Peter McCarty (Holt)Lilly’s...
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