Best books of 1981 Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year. Picture Books A Farmer’s Alphabet written and illustrated by Mary Azarian (Godine) Where the Buffaloes Begin written by Olaf Baker, illustrated by Stephen Gammell (Warne) On Market Street […]
Archives for 1981
Ah, Sweet Rememory!
December 1, 1981 by 1 Comment
by Virginia Hamilton Rememory is a “reword” out of my past. It is not poetic license but a volunteer, like a self-sown seed come forth unbidden. A given. I was fourteen, and I met a dashing fellow who told me he wasn’t much on names, but he had a perfect rememory of my smile (i.e., […]
Review of Outside Over There
June 28, 1981 by Leave a Comment
Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Harper 48 pp. 4/81 0-06-025523-4 $12.95 Library ed. 0-06-025524-2 Of his “self-styled picture-book trilogy” Maurice Sendak says, “They are all variations on the same theme: how children master various feelings — anger, boredom, fear, frustration, jealousy — and manage to come to grips […]
