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Favorites 2000

Every year more books are published than I can ever hope to read. Here are the ones I enjoyed best from the year 2000 -- and I'm sorry I was not able to write reviews for them all.

Picture books:

• Cinderella illustrated by K. Y. Craft
• Cinderella Skeleton by Robert D. San Souci
• Me and My Cat by Satoshi Kitamura
• Miss Alaineus by Debra Frasier
• Swan in Love by Eve Bunting
• Wizzil by William Steig

Middle readers:

• Little Lit edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly
• Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors by Ian Whybrow
• The Mystery of Mr. Nice by Bruce Hale

Young adult:

• Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• The Circus Lunicus by Marilyn Singer
• The Doll People by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin
• Ereth's Birthday by Avi
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques
• Magic Can Be Murder by Vivian Vande Velde
• Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
• Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee
• Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones

I would also like to mention some noteworthy older books that are back in print in new editions:

• Children of the Star by Sylvia Engdahl
• The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis
• Edith and Mr. Bear by Dare Wright
• Here Comes a Candle by Mary Hanson-Roberts
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
• The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes

-Wendy Morris