| Boston Globe–Horn Book Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in childrens and young adult literature |
| Presented by | Horn Book Magazine |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
| First awarded | 1967 |
| Official Website | |
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were first presented by The Boston Globe and Horn Book Magazine in 1967. They are among the most prestigious honors[citation needed] in the United States in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Awards are given in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction.
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Boston Globe–Horn Book Award recipients
| Year | Category | Book | Author | Illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Picture Book | At Night | Jonathan Bean | Jonathan Bean |
| 2008 | Fiction and Poetry | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Ellen Forney |
| 2008 | Nonfiction | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Peter Sís | Peter Sís |
| 2007 | Picture Book | Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
| 2007 | Fiction and Poetry | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party | M.T. Anderson | |
| 2007 | Nonfiction | The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr | Nicolas Debon | Nicolas Debon |
| 2006 | Picture Book | Leaf Man | Lois Ehlert | Lois Ehlert |
| 2006 | Fiction and Poetry | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo | Bagram Ibatoulline |
| 2006 | Nonfiction | If You Decide to Go to the Moon | Faith McNulty | Steven Kellogg |
| 2005 | Fiction and Poetry | The Schwa Was Here | Neal Schusterman | |
| 2005 | Nonfiction | The Race to Save the Lord God Bird | Phillip Hoose | |
| 2005 | Picture Book | Traction Man Is Here! | Mini Grey | Mini Grey |
| 2004 | Fiction and Poetry | The Fire-Eaters | David Almond | |
| 2004 | Nonfiction | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Jim Murphy | |
| 2004 | Picture Book | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers | Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein |
| 2003 | Fiction and Poetry | The Jamie and Angus Stories | Anne Fine | Penny Dale |
| 2003 | Nonfiction | Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey | Maira Kalman | |
| 2003 | Picture Book | Big Momma Makes the World | Phyllis Root | Helen Oxenbury |
| 2002 | Fiction and Poetry | Lord of the Deep | Graham Salisbury | |
| 2002 | Nonfiction | This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie | Elizabeth Partridge | |
| 2002 | Picture Book | “Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate | Bob Graham | Bob Graham |
| 2001 | Fiction and Poetry | Carver: A Life in Poems | Marilyn Nelson | |
| 2001 | Nonfiction | The Longitude Prize | Joan Dash | Dusan Petricic |
| 2001 | Picture Book | Cold Feet | Cynthia DeFelice | Robert Andrew Parker |
| 2000 | Fiction | The Folk Keeper | Franny Billingsley | |
| 2000 | Nonfiction | Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | Marc Aronson | |
| 2000 | Picture Book | Henry Hikes to Fitchburg | D. B. Johnson | D. B. Johnson |
| 1999 | Fiction | Holes | Louis Sachar | |
| 1999 | Nonfiction | The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest | Steve Jenkins | |
| 1999 | Picture Book | Red-Eyed Tree Frog | Joy Cowley | Nic Bishop |
| 1999 | Special Citation | Tibet: Through the Red Box | Peter Sis | |
| 1998 | Fiction | The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child | Francisco Jiménez | |
| 1998 | Nonfiction | Leon’s Story | Leon Walter Tillage | Susan L. Roth |
| 1998 | Picture Book | And If the Moon Could Talk | Kate Banks | Georg Hallensleben |
| 1997 | Fiction | The Friends | Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano | |
| 1997 | Nonfiction | A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder | Walter Wick | Walter Wick |
| 1997 | Picture Book | The Adventures of Sparrowboy | Brian Pinkney | |
| 1996 | Fiction | Poppy | Avi | Brian Floca |
| 1996 | Nonfiction | Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story | Andrea Warren | |
| 1996 | Picture Book | In the Rain with Baby Duck | Amy Hest | Jill Barton |
| 1995 | Fiction | Some of the Kinder Planets | Tim Wynne-Jones | |
| 1995 | Nonfiction | Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution | Natalie S. Bober | |
| 1995 | Picture Book | John Henry | Julius Lester | Jerry Pinkney |
| 1994 | Fiction | Scooter | Vera Williams | |
| 1994 | Nonfiction | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Russell Freedman | |
| 1994 | Picture Book | Grandfather's Journey | Allen Say | Allen Say |
| 1993 | Fiction | Ajeemah and His Son | James Berry | |
| 1993 | Nonfiction | Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? | Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack | |
| 1993 | Picture Book | The Fortune Tellers | Lloyd Alexander | Trina Schart Hyman |
| 1992 | Fiction | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant | |
| 1992 | Nonfiction | Talking with Artists | Pat Cummings | |
| 1992 | Picture Book | Seven Blind Mice | Ed Young | Ed Young |
| 1991 | Fiction | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | |
| 1991 | Nonfiction | Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds | Cynthia Rylant | Barry Moser |
| 1991 | Picture Book | The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks | Katherine Paterson | Leo and Diane Dillon |
| 1990 | Fiction | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 1990 | Nonfiction | The Great Little Madison | Jean Fritz | |
| 1990 | Picture Book | Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China | Ed Young | Ed Young |
| 1990 | Special Citation | Valentine and Orson | Nancy Ekholm Burkert | |
| 1989 | Fiction | The Village by the Sea | Paula Fox | |
| 1989 | Nonfiction | The Way Things Work | David Macaulay | David Macaulay |
| 1989 | Picture Book | Shy Charles | Rosemary Wells | Rosemary Wells |
| 1988 | Fiction | The Friendship | Mildred D. Taylor | Max Ginsburg |
| 1988 | Nonfiction | Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave | Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1988 | Picture Book | The Boy of the Three-Year Nap | Dianne Snyder | Allen Say |
| 1987 | Fiction | Rabble Starkey | Lois Lowry | |
| 1987 | Nonfiction | The Pilgrims of Plimoth | Marcia Sewall | |
| 1987 | Picture Book | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | John Steptoe | John Steptoe |
| 1986 | Fiction | In Summer Light | Zibby Oneal | |
| 1986 | Nonfiction | Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur | Peggy Thomson | |
| 1986 | Picture Book | The Paper Crane | Molly Bang | Molly Bang |
| 1985 | Fiction | The Moves Make the Man | Bruce Brooks | |
| 1985 | Nonfiction | Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun | Rhoda Blumberg | |
| 1985 | Picture Book | Mama Don't Allow | Thacher Hurd | Thacher Hurd |
| 1985 | Special Citation | 1,2,3 | Tana Hoban | Tana Hoban |
| 1984 | Fiction | A Little Fear | Patricia Wrightson | |
| 1984 | Nonfiction | The Double Life of Pocahontas | Jean Fritz | Ed Young |
| 1984 | Picture Book | Jonah and the Great Fish | Warwick Hutton | Warwick Hutton |
| 1983 | Fiction | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1983 | Nonfiction | Behind Barbed Wire | Daniel S. Davis | |
| 1983 | Picture Book | A Chair for My Mother | Vera B. Williams | Vera B. Williams |
| 1982 | Fiction | Playing Beatie Bow | Ruth Park | |
| 1982 | Nonfiction | Upon the Head of the Goat | Aranka Siegal | |
| 1982 | Picture Book | A Visit to William Blake's Inn | Nancy Willard | Alice and Martin Provensen |
| 1981 | Fiction | The Leaving | Lynn Hall | |
| 1981 | Nonfiction | The Weaver's Gift | Kathryn Lasky | Christopher G. Knight |
| 1981 | Picture Book | Outside Over There | Maurice Sendak | Maurice Sendak |
| 1980 | Fiction | Conrad's War | Andrew Davies | |
| 1980 | Nonfiction | Building: The Fight Against Gravity | Mario Salvadori | Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus |
| 1980 | Picture Book | The Garden of Abdul Gasazi | Chris Van Allsburg | Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1980 | Special Citation | Graham Oakley's Magical Changes | Graham Oakley | |
| 1979 | Fiction | Humbug Mountain | Sid Fleischman | |
| 1979 | Nonfiction | The Road from Home | David Kherdian | |
| 1979 | Picture Book | The Snowman | Raymond Briggs | Raymond Briggs |
| 1978 | Fiction | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | |
| 1978 | Nonfiction | Mischling, Second Degree | Ilse Koehn | |
| 1978 | Picture Book | Anno's Journey | Mitsumasa Anno | Mitsumasa Anno |
| 1977 | Fiction | Child of the Owl | Laurence Yep | |
| 1977 | Nonfiction | Chance, Luck and Destiny | Peter Dickinson | |
| 1977 | Picture Book | Granfa' Grig Had a Pig | Wallace Tripp | Wallace Tripp |
| 1977 | Special Citation | The Changing City and The Changing Countryside | Jorg Mueller | |
| 1976 | Fiction | Unleaving | Jill Paton Walsh | |
| 1976 | Nonfiction | Voyaging to Cathay | Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok | |
| 1976 | Picture Book | Thirteen | Remy Charlip | Jerry Joyner |
| 1975 | Fiction | Transport 7-41-R | T. Degens | |
| 1975 | Picture Book | Anno's Alphabet | Mitsumasa Anno | Mitsumasa Anno |
| 1974 | Fiction | M. C. Higgins, the Great | Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1974 | Picture Book | Jambo Means Hello | Muriel Feelings | Tom Feelings |
| 1973 | Fiction | The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper | |
| 1973 | Picture Book | King Stork | Howard Pyle | Trina Schart Hyman |
| 1972 | Fiction | Tristan and Iseult | Rosemary Sutcliff | |
| 1972 | Picture Book | Mr. Gumpy's Outing | John Burningham | John Burningham |
| 1971 | Fiction | A Room Made of Windows | Eleanor Cameron | |
| 1971 | Picture Book | If I Built a Village . . . | Kazue Mizumura | Kazue Mizumura |
| 1970 | Fiction | The Intruder | John Rowe Townsend | |
| 1970 | Picture Book | Hi, Cat! | Ezra Jack Keats | Ezra Jack Keats |
| 1969 | Fiction | A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1969 | Picture Book | The Adventures of Paddy Pork | John S. Goodall | John S. Goodall |
| 1968 | Fiction | The Spring Rider | John Lawson | |
| 1968 | Picture Book | Tikki Tikki Tembo | Arlene Mosel | Blair Lent |
| 1967 | Fiction | The Little Fishes | Erik Christian Haugaard | |
| 1967 | Picture Book | London Bridge Is Falling Down | Peter Spier | Peter Spier |
Recipients of multiple Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
Mitsumasa Anno, Avi, Jean Fritz, Cynthia Rylant, Allen Say and Vera Williams have all been the recipient of two Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. Virginia Hamilton and Ed Young have each been awarded three.
External links
- Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards home page
- Award Annals honor roll: a ranked list of Horn Book award recipients
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award at lovethebook
See also
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