Boston Globe- Horn Book Awards
First presented in 1967 and customarily announced in June, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may be named in each category.
The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country.The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the Editor of the Horn Book Official site link
The 2009 winners are:
Fiction and Poetry |
Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins) |
Nonfiction |
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House) |
Picture Book |
Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Clarion) |
All three of the winning authors are widely renowned. Mr. Pratchett, perhaps best known for his raucous comic fantasies for children and adults, displays a philosophical bent with Nation, a young adult novel about two nineteenth-century children who create a new society from the ground up. Candace Fleming’s dual biography of the President and Mrs. Lincoln employs the intricate scrapbook format that distinguished her earlier Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor. Margaret Mahy, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a two-time recipient of Boston Globe–Horn Book Award honor book citations, has written scores of novels, easy readers, and picture books. Bubble Trouble, a tongue-twisting tale about an airborne baby, marks the New Zealander’s second collaboration with English illustrator Polly Dunbar.
The judges selected two honor books in each category:
Fiction and Poetry
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick) |
Nonfiction |
The Way We Work by David Macaulay with Richard Walker, illustrated by David Macaulay (Lorraine/Houghton) |
Picture Book |
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow/HarperCollins) |
