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Horn Book Fanfare 2006
Horn Book Fanfare 2006 names 25 books across 3 categories. 11 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
Fiction
- A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodramasource (opens in a new tab)
- Aggie and Ben: Three Storiessource (opens in a new tab)
- An Abundance of Katherinessource (opens in a new tab)
- Claysource (opens in a new tab)
- Ptolemy’s Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Threesource (opens in a new tab)
- Street Lovesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Partysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Book Thiefsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Green Glass Seasource (opens in a new tab)
- The King of Attoliasource (opens in a new tab)
- The Last Dragonsource (opens in a new tab)
- Thumb on a Diamondsource (opens in a new tab)
Nonfiction
- Ballet of the Elephantssource (opens in a new tab)
- Dizzysource (opens in a new tab)
- Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycottsource (opens in a new tab)
- John, Paul, George, and Bensource (opens in a new tab)
- Mama: A True Story in which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama during a Tsunami, but Finds a New Home, and a New Mamasource (opens in a new tab)
- Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventorsource (opens in a new tab)
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedomsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasysource (opens in a new tab)
- Wildfiresource (opens in a new tab)
Picture Books
- Emily’s Balloonsource (opens in a new tab)
- Flotsamsource (opens in a new tab)
- Hardworking Puppiessource (opens in a new tab)
- Keeper of Solessource (opens in a new tab)
About the Horn Book Fanfare
The Horn Book Magazine's annual Fanfare list of the year's best children's and young adult books, chosen by its editors and reviewers. Read from hbook.com's own Fanfare pages through Wayback Machine snapshots, because hbook.com blocks automated fetches; each sourceUrl is the snapshot used. 2006-2018 come from the annotated Fanfare articles, 2019-2025 from the Fanfare booklist pages. Year is the year in the list's name (books of that year); it is announced in December. Category is Horn Book's own section (Picture Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Folklore). Every entry is a Selection. Author is the writer; for wordless or author-illustrated books it is the illustrator. Series names Horn Book prints in brackets after a title are dropped. Expected counts are the titles printed under each section on the cited page; for 2006-2018 they match the number of review citations on the page.
Organization: The Horn Book. Official site (opens in a new tab)