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There’s nothing like a good library haul! Here’s mine, following the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine issue-to-press date. It’s the issue that begins our hundred-and-second year and contains all the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards speeches along with Fanfare, our annual annotated “best of” list that Notes from the Horn...
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2025 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2025 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Lisa Brown Rule Breakers: The World Is My Canvas by Lisa Brown Lisa Brown on The Airport Book by Martha...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2025. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2026 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2024 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2024 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Sophie Blackall Sophie Blackall Talks with Roger A Conversation with Sophie Blackall by Julie Danielson 2019 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by...
Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s annual best books list! What a way to close out the Horn Book’s centennial year, with our fifty-three (think of it as one per week plus a bonus!) most highly recommended titles. All year long we’ve been exploring the theme of “Past, Present, and...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2024. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2025 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s annual best books list! Being at the brink of the Magazine’s centennial — in 2024 — provides ample opportunity (slash excuse) to peruse our bound-volumes archive. For example: is this the one-hundredth Fanfare list? Turns out no: Fanfare started in 1939. From March 1938: “Horn...
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2023 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2023 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Lisa Brown Rule Breakers: The World Is My Canvas by Lisa Brown On The Airport Book by Martha V. Parravano ...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2023. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2024 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
Welcome to the 2022 edition of Fanfare, the Horn Book’s choices of the best books for children and teens published in the last year. This year’s list features more titles than usual (“Not to fifty[one]!” yells editor emeritus Roger Sutton in a Princess Bride voice), and it encompasses a wonderfully eclectic group...