Book Reviews
Best books of 1985Chosen 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 Paper Crane written and illustrated by Molly Bang (Greenwillow)Gorilla written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (Knopf)The Very Busy Spider written and illustrated by...
Best books of 1984Chosen 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 BooksSpirit Child: A Story of the Nativity translated by John Bierhorst, illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Morrow)How My Parents Learned to Eat written by Ina...
Alice and Martin Provensen, Authors-Illustrators The Glorious Flight; Across the Channel with Louis Blériot July 25, 1909 g39 pp. Viking 1983 ISBN 0-670-34259-9 13.45(Younger, Intermediate)Soft colors provide a subdued background for the story of Louis Blériot’s struggles to construct and fly and operating airplane. Smitten by the idea of flight,...
Best books of 1983Chosen 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 Baby’s Catalogue written and illustrated by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (Atlantic-Little)The Best Town in the World written by Byrd Baylor, illustrated by Ronald...
The BFGby Roald Dahl; illus. by Quentin BlakeIntermediate Farrar 221 pp.1982 0-374-30469-6 $10.95The BFG is a big friendly giant who kidnaps the orphan Sophie right out of her bed one dark night. He takes her back to Giant Country, the land of the horrible giants Fleshlumpeater, Childchewer, and the rest....
Best books of 1982Chosen 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 BooksAnno’s Britain written and illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno (Philomel)Shadow written by Blaise Cendrars, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)Miss Rumphius written and illustrated...
Best books of 1981Chosen 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 Farmer’s Alphabet written and illustrated by Mary Azarian (Godine)Where the Buffaloes Begin written by Olaf Baker, illustrated by Stephen Gammell (Warne)On Market Street...
Outside Over Thereby Maurice Sendak; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Harper 48 pp.4/81 0-06-025523-4 $12.95Library ed. 0-06-025524-2Of his "self-styled picture-book trilogy" Maurice Sendak says, "They are all variations on the same theme: how children master various feelings — anger, boredom, fear, frustration, jealousy — and manage to come to grips...
Best books of 1979Chosen 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 BooksWhy the Tides Ebb and Flow written by Joan Chase Bowden, illustrated by Marc Brown (Houghton)King Krakus and the Dragon written and illustrated by...
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