Annal:1996 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1996 Horn Book-picture winner
- Score: 10.46
It’s a rainy day and Baby Duck hates rain. But Grampa Duck knows how to resolve the problem. So he goes up to the attic and comes back with a little umbrella and rubber boots.
- 1996 Horn Book-picture honor
- Score: 6.46
In this inventive take on the traditional Cinderella tale, Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl with a big dream. Someday, she believes, she will marry a prince. When the town mayor announces he is throwing a grand ball, Fanny is convinced her time has come. She puts on her best calico dress and goes out to the garden so that she’ll be ready when her fairy godmother arrives. As the seconds tick by, Fanny waits and waits. Finally, she hears a voice. It isn’t her fairy godmother-but it is someone who will change her life forever.
- 1996 Horn Book-picture honor
- Score: 6.46
Hoping for trees or a flower garden, Tiffany transplants and cares for some seedlings that she finds and is surprised by what they become.
