Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Explained

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
Awarded For:"excellence in literature for children and young adults"
Presenter:The Horn Book Magazine
Country:United States
Location:Boston, Massachusetts
Year:1967

The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are a set of American literary awards conferred by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine annually from 1967. One book is recognized in each of four categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book. The official website calls the awards "among the most prestigious honors in children's and young adult literature".

The Awards follow a school-year calendar. Taking the 2011–2012 cycle for illustration: books published June 2011 to May 2012 were eligible; submissions from publishers were accepted until May 15; the awards and honors were announced during June (when U.S. school years end), only one to twelve months after the eligible books were released.

From 1967 to 1975 there were only two award categories, fiction and picture book. The Nonfiction award was introduced in 1976 and the fiction category was revised to "Fiction and Poems" in 2001, when that award recognized Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson. There have been five "Special Citations": fourth awards conferred in five different years from 1977 to 1999.

Generally the books under consideration have been submitted by their publishers but the panel of judges may honor any eligible book. Before 2011–2012 the publishers were permitted to submit only a limited number of candidates.

Winners

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CategoryTitleWriterIllustrator
1967FictionThe Little Fishes
Picture BookLondon Bridge Is Falling Down
1968FictionThe Spring Rider
Picture BookTikki Tikki Tembo
1969FictionA Wizard of Earthsea
Picture BookThe Adventures of Paddy Pork
1970FictionThe Intruder
Picture BookHi, Cat!
1971FictionA Room Made of Windows
Picture BookIf I Built a Village . . .
1972FictionTristan and Iseult
Picture BookMr. Gumpy's Outing
1973FictionThe Dark Is Rising
Picture BookKing Stork
1974FictionM. C. Higgins, the Great
Picture BookJambo Means Hello
1975FictionTransport 7-41-R
Picture BookAnno's Alphabet
1976FictionUnleaving
NonfictionVoyaging to CathayAlfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok
Picture BookThirteen
1977FictionChild of the Owl
NonfictionChance, Luck and Destiny
Picture BookGranfa' Grig Had a Pig
Special CitationThe Changing City and The Changing Countryside
1978FictionThe Westing Game
NonfictionMischling, Second Degree
Picture BookAnno's Journey
1979FictionHumbug Mountain
NonfictionThe Road from Home
Picture BookThe Snowman
1980FictionConrad's War
NonfictionBuilding: The Fight Against Gravity and Christopher Ragus
Picture BookThe Garden of Abdul Gasazi
Special CitationGraham Oakley's Magical Changes
1981FictionThe Leaving
NonfictionThe Weaver's Gift
Picture BookOutside Over There
1982FictionPlaying Beatie Bow
NonfictionUpon the Head of the Goat
Picture BookA Visit to William Blake's Inn
1983FictionSweet Whispers, Brother Rush
NonfictionBehind Barbed Wire
Picture BookA Chair for My Mother[1]
1984FictionA Little Fear
NonfictionThe Double Life of Pocahontas
Picture BookJonah and the Great Fish
1985FictionThe Moves Make the Man
NonfictionCommodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
Picture BookMama Don't Allow
Special Citation1,2,3
1986FictionIn Summer Light
NonfictionAuks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur
Picture BookThe Paper Crane
1987FictionRabble Starkey
NonfictionThe Pilgrims of Plimoth
Picture BookMufaro's Beautiful Daughters
1988FictionThe Friendship
NonfictionAnthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Picture BookThe Boy of the Three-Year Nap
1989FictionThe Village by the Sea
NonfictionThe Way Things Work
Picture BookShy Charles
1990FictionManiac Magee
NonfictionThe Great Little Madison
Picture Book
Special CitationValentine and Orson
1991FictionThe True Confessions of Charlotte DoyleAvi
NonfictionAppalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
Picture BookThe Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
1992FictionMissing May
NonfictionTalking with Artists
Picture BookSeven Blind Mice
1993FictionAjeemah and His Son
Nonfiction and Frederick McKissack
Picture BookThe Fortune Tellers
1994FictionScooter
NonfictionEleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Picture BookGrandfather's Journey
1995FictionSome of the Kinder Planets
NonfictionAbigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution[2]
Picture BookJohn Henry
1996FictionPoppyAvi
NonfictionOrphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story
Picture BookIn the Rain with Baby Duck
1997FictionThe Friends with Cathy Hirano (trans.)
NonfictionA Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
Picture BookThe Adventures of Sparrowboy
1998Fiction
NonfictionLeon’s Story
Picture BookAnd If the Moon Could Talk
1999FictionHoles
NonfictionThe Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
Picture BookRed-Eyed Tree Frog
Special Citation
2000FictionThe Folk Keeper
NonfictionSir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Picture BookHenry Hikes to Fitchburg
2001Fiction and Poetry[3]
NonfictionThe Longitude Prize
Picture BookCold Feet
2002Fiction and PoetryLord of the Deep
NonfictionThis Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Picture Book“Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate
2003Fiction and PoetryThe Jamie and Angus Stories
NonfictionFireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
Picture BookBig Momma Makes the World
2004Fiction and PoetryThe Fire-Eaters
NonfictionAn American Plague

The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Picture BookThe Man Who Walked Between the Towers
2005Fiction and PoetryThe Schwa Was Here
NonfictionThe Race to Save the Lord God Bird
Picture BookTraction Man Is Here!
2006Picture BookLeaf Man
Fiction and PoetryThe Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
NonfictionIf You Decide to Go to the Moon
2007Picture BookDog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories
Fiction and PoetryThe Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
NonfictionThe Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr
2008Picture BookAt Night[4]
Fiction and PoetryThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
NonfictionThe Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
2009Picture BookBubble Trouble
Fiction and PoetryNation
NonfictionThe Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
2010Picture BookI Know Here
Fiction and PoetryWhen You Reach Me[5]
NonfictionMarching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
2011Picture BookPocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Fiction and PoetryBlink & Caution
NonfictionThe Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery
2012Picture BookExtra Yarn[6]
FictionNo Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
NonfictionChuck Close: Face Book with others
2013Picture BookOpen This Little Book[7]
Picture BookBuilding Our House
FictionEleanor & Park
NonfictionElectric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
2014Picture BookMr. Tiger Goes Wild[8]
FictionGrasshopper Jungle
NonfictionThe Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
2015Picture BookThe Farmer and the Clown
FictionCartwheeling in Thunderstorms
NonfictionThe Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
2016Picture BookJazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph[9]
FictionThe Lie Tree
NonfictionMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
2017Picture BookFreedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life[10]
FictionThe Hate U Give
NonfictionVincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
2018Picture BookThey Say Blue[11]
Fiction and PoetryThe Poet X
NonfictionPhotographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
2019Picture BookThe Patchwork Bike [12] [13] [14]
Fiction and PoetryThe Season of Styx Malone
NonfictionThis Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality and Debbie Levy
2020Picture BookSaturday[15]
Fiction and PoetryKing and the Dragonflies
NonfictionInfinite Hope
2021Picture BookI Talk Like a River[16]
Fiction and PoetryA Sitting in St. James
NonfictionFrom a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
2022Picture BookAin't Burned All the Bright [17]
Fiction and PoetryAll My Rage
Nonfiction

Repeat winners

Author Virginia Hamilton and illustrator Ed Young have both won three Awards, both in two categories.

Mitsumasa Anno, Avi, Jean Fritz, Cynthia Rylant, Allen Say and Vera B. Williams have all won two Awards.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2015-10-20 . Obituary Note: Vera B. Williams . 2024-06-09 . . 2020-09-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200928153306/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2616 . live .
  2. Web site: 2023-01-17 . Obituary Note: Natalie S. Bober . 2024-06-09 . . 2023-11-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231129094301/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4396#m58792 . live .
  3. Web site: 2012-01-09 . Awards: Frost Medal for Poetry . 2024-06-09 . . 2024-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224003918/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1638#m14603 . live .
  4. Web site: 2008-06-20 . Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book . 2024-06-09 . . 2017-10-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171002015237/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=700 . live .
  5. Web site: 2020-06-30 . Reading with... Rebecca Stead . 2024-06-09 . . 2024-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224003051/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=932 . live .
  6. Web site: 2012-06-08 . BEA: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Live from the Floor . 2024-06-09 . . 2017-10-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171002100819/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1756 . live .
  7. Web site: 2013-06-03 . Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book; Reading the West; IRDA . 2024-06-09 . . 2024-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240609022829/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2008 . live .
  8. Web site: 2014-06-02 . #BEA14: Horn Book Winners . 2024-06-09 . . 2022-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523172616/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2264 . live .
  9. Web site: 2016-06-03 . Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book Winners . 2024-06-09 . . 2024-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240602203648/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2767 . live .
  10. Web site: 2017-06-01 . Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Celebrate 50th Anniversary . 2024-06-09 . . 2022-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523043129/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3013 . live .
  11. Web site: 2018-06-05 . Awards: BTBA Winners, Boston Globe-Horn Book Prize . 2024-06-09 . . 2023-04-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230403033430/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3263#m40676 . live .
  12. Web site: Presenting the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners . 2019-05-31 . . 2019-05-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190531130405/https://www.hbook.com/2019/05/featured/presenting-the-2019-boston-globe-horn-book-award-winners/ . live .
  13. Web site: Clarke’s ‘The Patchwork Bike’ wins US picture book award . 2019-05-31 . Books+Publishing . en-AU . 2024-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240609022836/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/05/31/134059/clarkes-the-patchwork-bike-wins-us-picture-book-award/ . live .
  14. Web site: 2019-05-20 . Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book . 2024-06-09 . . 2024-02-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240223232201/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3505 . live .
  15. Web site: 2020-05-28 . Awards: 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Winners . 2024-06-09 . . 2022-10-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221011221502/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3748 . live .
  16. Web site: Schaub . Michael . 2021-06-24 . Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners Revealed . 2024-06-09 . . en . 2021-06-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210629195137/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/boston-globehorn-book-award-winners-revealed/ . live .
  17. Web site: Schaub . Michael . 2022-06-24 . Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners Revealed . 2022-06-24 . . en . 2022-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623232811/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/boston-globehorn-book-award-winners-revealed-1/ . live .