Annal:2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

A Hat Full of Sky: Tiffany Aching Adventures - Book 2

Terry Pratchett

• 2007 YRCA-Senior winner
• 2005 Mythopoeic-Children winner
• Score: 20.57

Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany's inner strength to save herself ... if it can be done at all.

The Arthur Trilogy

Kevin Crossley-Holland

• 2005 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• Score: 6.55

It is 1199 and young Arthur de Caldicot is waiting impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his friend’s father, Merlin, gives him a shining piece of obsidian, and his life becomes entwined with that of his namesake, the Arthur whose story he sees unfold in the stone.

The Sea of Trolls

Nancy Farmer, Tim O'Brien

• 2005 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• 2007 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
• Score: 10.55

Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. “It seems that things are stirring across the water,” the Bard had warned. “Ships are being built, swords are being forged.”

“Is that bad?” Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers.

“Of course. People don’t make ships and swords unless they intend to use them.”

The year is A.D. 793. In the next months, Jack and his little sister, Lucy, are enslaved by Olaf One-Brow and his fierce young shipmate, Thorgil. With a crow named Bold Heart for mysterious company, they are swept up into an adventure-quest that follows in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings.

Other threats include a willful mother Dragon, a giant spider, and a troll-boar with a surprising personality—to say nothing of Ivar the Boneless and his wife, Queen Frith, a shape-shifting half-troll, and several eight foot tall, orange-haired, full-time trolls. But in stories by award-winner Nancy Farmer, appearances do deceive. She has never told a richer, funnier tale, nor offered more timeless encouragement to young seekers than “Just say no to pillaging.”

The Abhorsen Trilogy

Garth Nix

• 2005 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• Score: 6.55

Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a series that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn’t always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether.

The Juniper Trilogy

Monica Furlong

• 2005 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• Score: 6.55

Though Juniper enjoys the easy life of a medieval princess, she chooses to learn about herbs, healing, and the magic within nature from her strange and difficult godmother.