Book Reviews
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...
My father’s house was made of sky.His bookcases stood twelve feet high.The snowy owl my father tamed,the stones he showed me, stars he named,agate, quartz, the Milky Way—“It’s good to know their names,” he’d say,“so when I’m gone and you are grown,in any world you’ll feel at home.”My mother’s house...
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...
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...
We know these books as classics now, but each started as one of the many review copies delivered to the Horn Book office every week. What did our reviewers think the first time they saw a book by Dr. Seuss? What about when Madeleine L'Engle, a moderately successful writer of...
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...
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