Book Reviews
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...
My on-going if peripheral interest in children and electronic culture snapped into sharp focus one morning while listening to the news. One of our politicians blithely announced that school libraries and librarians were now unnecessary because children can find everything they need on the 'Net. Confronted by this statement, I...
Recently when our ten-year-old son was asked to name his favorite book, he said promptly, "I have thousands of favorites," and proceeded to describe his room as if he were living in a small crack between bookshelves — the pleasant problem of the voracious reader. Madison's bookshelves span a decade...
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...
The Thiefby Megan Whalen TurnerMiddle School, High School Greenwillow/Morrow 196 pp.10/96 0-688-14627-9 $15.99A tantalizing, suspenseful, exceptionally clever novel is set in a Mediterranean-like country called Sounis in a time when the old gods have just been supplanted. (So vivid are the geography and the details of daily life that the...
Best books of 1995Chosen 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 BooksGrandaddy’s Stars written by Helen V. Griffith, illustrated by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)In the Rain with Baby Duck written by Amy Hest, illustrated by Jill...
Judith Ortiz Cofer An Island Like You: Stories of the BarrioOlder 165 pp. Kroupa/Orchard Books 4/95ISBN 0-531-06897-7 $15.95 Library edition ISBN 0-531-08747-6 $15.99Set in a New Jersey barrio, these twelve short stories feature Puerto Rican teenagers who speak in characteristic yet very distinct voices and appear in each others'...
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