Horn Book Fanfare List
Best books of 2007

Picture Books
At Night written and illustrated by Jonathan Bean (Farrar)
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County written by Janice N. Harrington, illustrated by Shelley Jackson (Kroupa/Farrar)
A Good Day written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
Pictures from Our Vacation written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)
First the Egg written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Porter/Roaring Brook)
The Arrival illustrated by Shaun Tan (Levine/Scholastic)

Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney (Little)
Becca at Sea by Deirdre Baker (Groundwood)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (Foster/Farrar)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve (Eos/HarperCollins)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret written and illustrated by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson (Greenwillow)

Folklore
Beowulf: A Hero’s Tale Retold retold and illustrated by James Rumford (Houghton)
The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm retold by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Max Grafe (Candlewick)

Poetry
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings written and illustrated by Douglas Florian (Harcourt)
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) written by Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Istvan Banyai (Clarion)

Nonfiction
May I Pet Your Dog? written by Stephanie Calmenson, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion)
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain written and illustrated by Peter Sís (Foster/Farrar)

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