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We’ve gathered all Fanfare lists from 1938 to the present. Check out almost seventy years’ worth of Horn Book editors’ choices of the best children’s and young adult books.

Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards

Watch the video or listen to the audio of the 2007 ceremony at the Boston Athenaeum. Peruse our complete list of past winners.

Learn more about the winners and their work. Find reviews of earlier books by Nicolas Debon, author of The Strongest Man in the World, and Laura Vaccaro Seeger, author of Dog and Bear. Dig deeper into Mr. Debon’s specialty with our report on graphic novels. Listen to our podcast interview with M. T. Anderson, author of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Steep yourself in the world of Octavian Nothing with our Revolutionary War–themed booklist.

And don’t overlook our honor book winners. We’ve also posted their acceptance remarks: Lorree Griffin Burns and Sid Flesichman, the nonfiction honorees; Jean-Luc Fromental, Joelle Jolivet, and Emily Gravett, the picture book honorees; and the fiction and poetry honorees, Sara Pennypacaker, Marla Frazee, and Tim Wynne-Jones

Gossip Girl and Resistant Readers

Try out our recommended titles for reluctant and resistant readers. Sample our servings of chick-lit commentary by frequent contributors Patty Campbell and Lauren Adams. Brush up your knowledge of graphic novels and comics.

Mother Goose books

Reviews of some of our favorite Mother Goose books.

More web extras for January/February 2008

Reviews of the books cited by biographer Elizabeth Partridge in her “Feuling the Dream Spirit.”

Original Horn Book review of How the Heather Looks, the family-travel memoir published in the 1960s by Joan Bodger and recalled four decades later by Peggy Sullivan. Also available are Bodger’s 1959 article about some of her travels and a pair of early essays by Peggy Sullivan ("Theodore Roosevelt and Children's Books" and "A Tale of Washington’s Irvin").

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