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Horn Book Fanfare 1973

Best books of 1973Chosen 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 BooksIt’s Raining Said John Twaining translated and illustrated by N. M. Bodecker (Atheneum)Father Christmas written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs (Coward)Three Jovial Huntsmen adapted...

Horn Book Fanfare 1972

Best books of 1972Chosen 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 BooksHosie’s Alphabet written by Hosea, Tobias, and Lisa Baskin, illustrated by Leonard Baskin (Viking)Count and See photographed by Tana Hoban (Macmillan)George and Martha written...

High Fantasy and Heroic Romance*

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by Lloyd Alexander The White Queen proudly told Alice she had learned to believe six impossible things before breakfast. We do much better. Science appears on the verge of discoveries that may let us live forever, at the same time perfecting ways to get rid of us altogether. We can...

Horn Book Fanfare 1971

Best books of 1971Chosen 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 BooksIf All the Sea Were One Sea illustrated by Janina Domanska (Macmillan)Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book written by Muriel Feelings, illustrated by Tom...

Horn Book Fanfare 1970

Best books of 1970Chosen 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 BooksTopsy-Turvies: Pictures to Stretch the Imagination illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno (Walker/Weatherhill)Journey to the Moon illustrated by Erich Fuchs (Delacorte)Every Man Heart Lay Down written...

Horn Book Fanfare 1969

Best books of 1969Chosen 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 BooksGoggles! written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats (Macmillan)Jonah and the Lord written by George MacBeth, illustrated by Margaret Gordon (Holt)Suho and the White...

Horn Book Fanfare 1968

Best books of 1968Chosen 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 Little Drummer Boy written by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats (Macmillan)Why the Sun and the Moon...

Horn Book Fanfare 1967

Best books of 1967Chosen 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 BooksDrummer Hoff adapted by Barbara Emberley, illustrated by Ed Emberley (Prentice)A Green Christmas written by Theodora Kroeber, illustrated by John Larrecq (Parnassus)Mr. Miacca illustrated...

Review of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg162 pp.     Atheneum     1967     $3.95If there were such a thing as a recipe for a successful children’s book — for which we can be grateful there is not — this one would doubtless violate all the rules. The...
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