We’re delighted to announce the 2010 Horn Book Fanfare list, our picks for the best children’s and young adult books of the year.
Picture Books
- Mirror, written and illustrated by Jeannie Baker (Candlewick)
- Me and You, written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (Farrar)
- I Know Here, written by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood)
- April and Esme, Tooth Fairies, written and illustrated by Bob Graham (Candlewick)
- The Village Garage, written and illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Ottaviano/Holt)
- Nini Lost and Found, written and illustrated by Anita Lobel (Knopf)
Fiction
- Forge, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Atheneum)
- Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher (Dial)
- Happy Birthday, Sophie Hartley, by Stephanie Greene (Clarion)
- Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same! written and illustrated by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
- The Sky Is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson (Dial)
- Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, written and illustrated by Lincoln Peirce (HarperCollins)
- As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)
- The Dreamer, written by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís (Scholastic)
- Revolver, by Marcus Sedgwick (Roaring Brook)
- The White Horse Trick, by Kate Thompson (Greenwillow)
- A Conspiracy of Kings, by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
- One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Folklore
- Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, written and illustrated by Salley Mavor (Houghton)
Poetry
- Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton)
- Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, written by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse (Dutton)
Nonfiction
- They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton)
- The War to End All Wars: World War I, by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
- Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca (Porter/Flash Point/Roaring Brook)
- Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot [Scientists in the Field], written by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop (Houghton)
- The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery, written by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)
Read more about each of these excellent titles — plus an interview with honoree Megan Whalen Turner — in the December Notes from the Horn Book, coming next week. Sign up for the newsletter and view Fanfare lists since 1938 on our website.
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