Book Reviews
EZRA JACK KEATS, Author-IllustratorThe Snowy Day (Viking)In this mood book, never static but sparkling with atmosphere in lovely water-color pictures, a small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. The brief, vividly expressed text points out his new awareness of the sight and texture of snow (the crunch, crunch...
Best books of 1962Chosen 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 Hare and the Tortoise written by Aesop, illustrated by Paul Galdone (Whittlesey)The Sun Is a Golden Earring written by Natalia M. Belting, illustrated...
Best books of 1961Chosen 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 BooksThumbelina written by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Adrienne Adams (Scribner)Once a Mouse written and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)The Snow and the Sun—La...
Best books of 1960Chosen 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 American Speller edited and illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)The Shoemaker and the Elves written by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Adrienne Adams (Scribner)The...
Best books of 1959Chosen 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 BooksPeter Piper’s Alphabet by Marcia Brown (Scribner)The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids written by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Felix Hoffmann (Harcourt)Father Bear...
Best books of 1958Chosen 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 BooksFelice written and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)Chanticleer and the Fox edited and illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)What Do You Say, Dear? written by...
by Edward EagerIt is customary, in writing of E. Nesbit, to begin by telling how one first read her stories in The Strand Magazine, either devouring the installments one by one as they appeared, or perhaps even better, coming upon them unexpectedly in old bound volumes in some grandmotherly attic.This...
Best books of 1953Chosen 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 Steadfast Tin Soldier written by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)Madeline’s Rescue written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)Pitschi written and...
Best books of 1952Chosen 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 BooksBuffalo Bill written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (Doubleday)Looking-for-Something written by Ann Nolan Clark, illustrated by Leo Politi (Viking)Ape in a...
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