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Horn Book Fanfare

2007

Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan (Fiction)

2006

Clay by David Almond (Fiction)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Fiction)

2005

Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey (Picture Books)

2004

The Fire-Eaters by David Almond (Fiction)

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Fiction)

2002

Woody Guthrie by Bonnie Christensen (Nonfiction)

Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury (Fiction)

The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian (Fiction)

2001

145th Street by Walter Dean Myers (Fiction)

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Fiction)

Space Race by Sylvia Waugh (Fiction)

2000

Skellig by David Almond (Fiction)

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong (Nonfiction)

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt (Fiction)

1999

Holes by Louis Sachar (Fiction)

1998

A Small Miracle by Peter Collington (Picture Books)

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (Fiction)

1997

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (Fiction)

1996

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Fiction)

This Is My Song!: A Collection of Gospel Music for the Family selected by Vy Higginsen; illustrated by Brenda Joysmith

1995

Flour Babies by Anne Fine (Fiction)

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes (Poetry)

Letters from the Inside by John Marsden (Fiction)

I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment by Jerry Stanley (Nonfiction)
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (Fiction)

1994

Is Underground by Joan Aiken (Fiction)

A Bone From a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson (Fiction)

A Short Walk around the Pyramids and through the World of Art by Philip M. Isaacson (Nonfiction)

The Giver by Lois Lowry (Fiction)

Baby by Patricia Maclachlan (Fiction)

A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again! selected by Jack Prelutsky; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman (Poetry)

1993

A Kind of Thief by Vivien Alcock (Fiction)

Emily by Michael Bedard; illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Picture Books)

Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka (Fiction)

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley (Nonfiction)

1992

Borreguita and the Coyote by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Petra Mathers (Folklore)

Wanted...Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars (Fiction)

Monkey Island by Paula Fox (Fiction)

Snow White retold by Josephine Poole; illustrated by Angela Barrett (Folklore)
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Picture Books)

Follow the Dream by Peter Sis (Nonfiction)

1991

Other Bells for Us to Ring by Robert Cormier; illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray (Fiction)

Ace: The Very Important Pig by Dick King-Smith; illustrated by Lynette Hemmant (Fiction)

Possum Come A-Knockin' by Nancy Van Laan; illustrated by George Booth (Picture Books)

1990

Eva by Peter Dickinson (Fiction)

Poems of A. Nonny Mouse selected by Jack Prelutsky; illustrated by Henrik Drescher (Poetry)

Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Fiction)

1989

Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman; illustrated by Stephen Gammell (Picture Books)

The Monster Garden by Vivien Alcock (Fiction)

Anthony Burns by Virginia Hamilton (Nonfiction)

Round Buildings, Square Buildings, & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip M. Isaacson (Nonfiction)

1988

The Moon’s Revenge by Joan Aiken; illustrated by Alan Lee (Picture Books)

In Coal Country by Judith Hendershot; illustrated by Thomas B. Al (Picture Books)

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman (Fiction)

1987

The Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks (Fiction)

Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky; illustrated by Marc Brown (Poetry)

1986

Travelers by Night by Vivien Alcock (Fiction)

Gorilla by Anthony Browne (Picture Books)

Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (Fiction

The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon, Ph.D. (Folklore)

Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith; illustrated by Mary Rayner (Fiction)

1985

Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (Fiction)

1984

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Fiction)

1983

The Refugee Summer by Edward Fenton (Fiction)

1982
The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken (Fiction)

Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glide by Patricia Lauber; photographs by Jerome Wexler

1981

Conrad’s War by Andrew Davies

Footsteps by Leon Garfield

1980

The Night of the Comet: A Comedy of Courtship Featuring Bostock and Harris by Leon Garfield (Fiction)

1979

Silas and the Black Mare, Silas and Ben-Godik, and Silas and the Runaway Coach by Cecil Bødker (Fiction)

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (Picture Books)

The Legend of Scarface: A Blackfeet Indian Tale adapted by Robert San Souci; illustrated by Daniel San Souci (Picture Books)

1978

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier (Fiction)

A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry (Fiction)

The Telephone by Kornei Chukovsky adapted by William Jay Smith; illustrated by Blair Lent

Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Picture Books)

1975

Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories translated from the Danish by Erik Christian Haugaard (Stories)

1974

The Glassblower’s Children by Maria Gripe; illustrated by Harald Gripe (Stories)

An Old Tale Carved Out of Stone by A. Linevski (Stories)

1973

The White Ship by Chingiz Aitmatov (Stories)

D’Aulaires’ Trolls by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (Folktales and Legends)

1971

Journey to the Moon illustrated by Erich Fuchs (Picture Books)
Dionysos and the Pirates: Homeric Hymn Number Seven translated by Penelope Proddow;, illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Picture Books)

1970

Black Jack by Leon Garfield; illustrated by Antony Maitland (Picture Books)

The Cay by Theodore Taylor (Stories)

In the Land of Ur: The Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia by Hans Baumann, translated from the German by Stella Humphries (People and Places)

1968

Lion Gate and Labyrinth by Hans Baumann (Biography, History, and Poetry)

The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Fiction)
London Bridge Is Falling Down! by Peter Spier (Stories)

1966

The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell; illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Folk Tales and Fanciful Stories)

Persian Folk and Fairy Tales by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi; illustrated by Paul E. Kennedy (Folk Tales and Fanciful Stories)

1963

Growing Up in 13th Century England by Alfred Duggan; illustrated by C. Walter Hodges (History and Biography)

Animals in the Zoo by Feodor Rojankovsky (Picture Books)

1962

The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night by Peter Spier (Picture Books)

The Glorious Conspiracy by Joanne S. Williamson (Stories)

1961

Don Tiburcio’s Secret by Jeanne Loisy; illustrated by Françoise Estachy (Stories)

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Stories)

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (Tales of Fancy and Imagination)

1954

Three—and Domingo by Margueritte Harmon Bro; illustrated by Leonard Weisgard (Stories)

1953

Buffalo Bill by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (Picture Books)

Big Tiger and Christian: Their Adventures in Mongolia by Fritz Mühlenweg; illustrated by Rafaello Busoni (Stories)

1952

The Blue-Eyed Pussy by Egon Mathieson (Picture Storybooks)

Prehistoric America by Anne Terry White; illustrated by Aldren Watson (Biography and History)

1951

Windfall Fiddle by Carl Carmer; illustrated by Arthur Conrad (Stories)

Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (Biography)

Rosa-Too-Little by Sue Felt (Picture Books)

Animal Folk Songs for Children by Ruth Crawford Seeger; illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Unusual Nonfiction)

1950

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Stories)

Kildee House Rutherford Montgomery; illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Stories)