Horn Book Magazine

		Features
	10	Horn Book Fanfare Our choices for the best books of 2009.
	18	Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Celebrating the year's winners and honor books.
Terry Pratchett	19	Nation
Margaret Mahy	25	Bubble Trouble
Polly Dunbar	27	Bubble Trouble
Candace Fleming	29	The Lincolns
		Columns
		Editorial
Roger Sutton	7	Effective Coloration Do you see what I see?
		Color Commentary Five “Fanfare” illustrators talk about color in their work.
Jerry Pinkney	35	The Power of Color
Leslie Patricelli	43	Running with Red
Marla Frazee	47	I’m Not the Boss of Them
Jason Chin	56	A Truthful Image
Melissa Sweet	65	Opera
		Sight Reading
Leonard S. Marcus	38	Back to the Future Retro picture books—déjà vu all over again?
		Books in the Home
Megan Lambert	44	Home Security An adopted child builds her own story.
		The Writer’s Page
Kristin Cashore	48	Hot Dog, Katsa! The author of Graceling ponders the rules of invented worlds.
		Borderlands
Lauren Adams	58	Bitten From The Silver Kiss to Twilight.
		What Makes a Good…?
Christine McDonnell	66	What Makes a Good Read-Aloud for Middle Graders?
		Cadenza
Alicia Potter	116	Promises, Promises Children’s book characters share their New Year’s resolutions.
		Reviews
	75	Book Reviews
	107	Audiobook Reviews
		Departments
	4 5 109 114 115	Letters to the Editor January/February Starred Books Impromptu Index to Advertisers Index to Books Reviewed
		Cover art © 2010 by Leslie Patricelli. Table of contents art by Marla Frazee from All the World (Beach Lane/Simon). © 2009 by Marla Frazee.

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