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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?’...
By Nell BeramLast year, I wrote that there was a dearth of middle-grade series novels in which mortal girls took on supernatural villains (there were plenty in which boys battled the same). This year’s endangered species seems to be boy-centered middle-grade series that don’t rely on encounters with the supernatural...
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....
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...
Packing and unpacking. Those were the governing actions of my Army brat childhood. I learned how to size up the fashion, the accents, the special vocabulary, and the social climate of every place I lived. I learned the bike and walking routes around all the Army bases and was 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...
“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” (Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster, page 298, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)“For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me...
by Michelle H. Martin“Brenda, you sure do got some nappy hair on your head, don’t you?” So begins Uncle Mordecai’s narrative in Carolivia Herron and Joe Cepeda’s controversial picture book, Nappy Hair (Knopf, 1997). All of the relatives have gathered around for a summer picnic, and as Uncle Mordecai tells...
Photo: Marty UmansWe speak a different language in my grandmother’s house. When the family is alone together or with close friends, our language flows into a southern dialect essenced with my younger brother’s (and sometimes my own) hip-hop of-the-moment idioms — what was once good became fresh and is now...
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