Horn
Book Fanfare List
Best books of 2008
Picture
Books
The Pencil
written by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Bruce Ingman (Candlewick)
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
(Harcourt)
Traction Man Meets Turbodog written and
illustrated by Mini Grey (Knopf)
Old Bear written and illustrated by Kevin
Henkes (Greenwillow)
Ghosts in the House! written and illustrated
by Kazuno Kohara (Roaring Brook)
Who Made This Cake? written by Chihiro
Nakagawa and illustrated by Junji Koyose (Front Street)
The Cardboard Piano written and illustrated
by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)
Dinosaur vs. Bedtime written and illustrated
by Bob Shea (Hyperion)
Fiction
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to
the Nation, Volume II:
The Kingdom on the Waves
by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
(Fickling/Random)
The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman
and illustrated by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
Forever Rose by Hilary McKay (McElderry)
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
(Levine/Scholastic)
Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson
(Greenwillow)
Nonfiction
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham
and Mary by Candace Fleming
(Schwartz & Wade/Random)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond
by Jan Greenberg and
Sandra Jordan (Flash Point/Porter/Roaring Brook)
The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
written by David Macaulay
with Richard Walker and illustrated by
David Macaulay (Lorraine/Houghton)
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
(Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
(Candlewick)
Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City
written by Janet Schulman and illustrated by
Meilo So (Knopf)
 
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