Showing posts with label Horn Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horn Book. Show all posts

June 18, 2015

2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Winners

The 2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners for children's literature were announced May 27, 2015.
"Celebrating their 49th year, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature."
This year's selection included a winner and honor books in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction, and Nonfiction.


Picture Book Winner: The Farmer and the Clown
Picture Book Honor Books: It's Only Stanley and Once Upon an Alphabet

Fiction Award Winner: Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
Fiction Honor Books: Egg & Spoon and Challenger Deep

Non-fiction Award Winner: The Family Romanov
Non-fiction Honor Books: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler and Brown Girl Dreaming
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June 6, 2014

2014 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards

The 2014 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award winners for 'excellence in children's literature' were announced at BookExpo America on Friday, May 30th.
"Celebrating its 48th year, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners and two honor books are selected in each of three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction."

Picture Book Award Winner
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, Peter Brown, Author & Illustrator

   Picture Book Honor 
   Rules of Summer, Author / Illustrator Shaun Tan
   Knock, Knock My Dad's Dream for Me, Author Daniel Beaty & Illustrator Bryan Collier

Fiction Winner
Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith

   Fiction Honor 
   Rose Under Fire, by Elizabeth Wein
   Boxers & Saints, by Gene Luen Lang

Nonfiction Award Winner
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, by Steve Sheinkin

   Nonfiction Honor
   The Animal Book, by Steve Jenkins
   Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, by Patricia Hruby Powell
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July 9, 2012

Horn Book: 2012 Mind the Gap Awards

Horn Book Magazine released their annual "Mind the Gap Awards" featuring books that didn't win any major ALA awards (and maybe should have!). Here are a few highlights from the list; links will take you to the AU Library catalog ... enjoy.

Most Likely to haunt award committees
Tragic and tragically overlooked
Science made simple (youngest)
Science made simple (oldest)
Horn Book Magazine is part of AU Library's serials collection (library main floor); it is also available via the library database Education Research Complete (login required for viewing from off campus).
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June 7, 2012

2012 Boston Globe Horn-Book Awards

"Since 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards have honored excellence in writing and illustrating books for young people." -- The Horn Book
The 2012 Boston Globe Horn-Book Awards were announced at BookExpo America today. For more information, titles owned by AU Library link from this post to the library catalog.

Picture Book Winner
Extra Yarn  -  Mac Barnett; illustrator Jon Klassen

     Honor Books
     And Then It's Spring - Julie Fogliano; illustrator Erin E. Stead
     And the Soldier Sang - J. Patrick Lewis; illustrator Gary Kelley

Fiction Winner
No Crystal Stair - Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrator R. Gregory

     Honor Books
     Life: An Exploded Diagram -  Mal Peet
     Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Non-fiction Winner
Chuck Close, Face Book - Chuck Close

     Honor Books
     Georgia in Hawaii - Amy Novesky; illustrator Yuyi Morales
     The Elephant Scientist - Caitlin O’Connell & Donna M. Jackson
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June 13, 2011

2011 Boston Globe Horn-Book Awards

From Read Roger, the Horn-Book editor's blog, the 2011 Boston Globe Horn-Book Awards:

About the 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. On occasion, a book will receive a special citation for its high quality and overall creative excellence. 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." -- Boston Globe Horn-Book Awards
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June 3, 2009

2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards

The 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced June 2, 2009. "Presented annually since 1967, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards reward excellence in children’s and young adult literature and are given in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book."

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.

Fiction and Poetry Winner:

Nation
Terry Pratchett
PZ7.P8865 Nat 2008

Nonfiction Winner:

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at
Abraham and Mary
Candace Fleming
E457.905 .F58 2008

Picture Book Winner:

Bubble Trouble
Margaret Mahy
PZ8.3.M278 Bu 2009


This year the judges selected two honor books for each category.

Fiction and Poetry:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing,
Traitor to the Nation: Volume 2,
The Kingdom on the Waves
M.T. Anderson
PZ7.A54395 Asu 2008

The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
PZ7.G1273 Gr 2008

Nonfiction:

The Way We Work
David Macaulay
QP37.M28 2008

Almost Astronauts:
13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Tanya Lee Stone
TL789.85.A1 S79 2008

Picture Books:

Old Bear
Kevin Henkes
PZ7.H389 Okd 2008

Higher, Higher
Leslie Patricelli
PZ7.P2472 Hi 2009

All of the above titles are part of the AU library juvenile collection; all title links go to the library catalog.

Visit the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards web site for more information about past and present award winners, audio and video of acceptance speeches, and criteria and submission guidelines.

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October 16, 2008

National Book Awards

From The Horn Book web site via Read Roger, The Horn Book editor's blog, information about the National Book Award Finalists for young adults:


2008 National Book Award Finalists

"Five novels, four of them written for young adults, have been selected as finalists for the 2008 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The winner will announced on November 19th at a dinner and ceremony in New York City. Daniel Handler chairs the judging committee, which also includes Holly Black, Angela Johnson, Carolyn Mackler, and Cynthia Voigt."
  1. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
    (Simon and Schuster) review
  2. The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
    (Atheneum) review
  3. What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
    (Scholastic)
  4. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
    by E. Lockhart (Hyperion) review
  5. The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
    (Knopf)

The Horn Book, 10/16/08

Interested? Two of these books are currently part of the juvenile collection:

Check them out!

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February 18, 2008

Horn Book Newsletter


"Be the first on your block to sign up! Each free and non-spam-generating issue of our new monthly newsletter, debuting the first week of March, highlights a small stack of new children's books of particular interest to parents and other adults who just need a little Horn Book help at the library or bookstore. In the March issue I interview Jon Scieszka, review some books about nature, spot some sequels, and answer some totally made-up questions in the advice column. Pass it on." - Read Roger, Notes from the Horn Book, 2/15/08

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January 8, 2008

Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

Roger Sutton, editor of Horn Book Magazine and author of the Horn Book Blog "Read Roger," posted the winner of the 2008 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis. His post read in part:

"With comedy and anguish, Curtis tells the gripping story in the voice of smart, funny Elijah, 10, the first child born free in the Buxton Settlement established for escaped slaves in Ontario, Canada, over the border from Detroit. Elijah loses his innocence when he crosses the border on a dangerous mission to the U. S. and encounters the horrifying cruelty his parents have escaped from. Curtis now lives near the Buxton Settlement, and, based on his careful research, he tells of ordinary people who are heroes." - Roger Sutton, Read Roger, 1/08/08.

Elijah of Buxton (PZ7.C94137 El 2007)is part of the library's juvenile collection.Professional reviews of the title, including Booklist, Horn Book, School Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews, may be found via the library database Academic Search Complete (authentication required for use).

Learn more about the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction on the Scott O'Dell home page.


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June 4, 2007

2007 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards

The 2007 Boston Globe Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature were announced on June 4, 2007. Given in three catagories, fiction and poetry, picture book, and nonfiction, the awards have been presented since 1967 (Horn Book).

"A Boston slave at the dawn of the Revolutionary War, a nineteenth-century French-Canadian strongman, and a timeless pair of buddies are the subjects of the three books that captured the top honors when the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced on June 4, 2007" (The Horn Book, 6/47/07).

... and the winners are ...

Honor books were chosen for each category:

Catalog links are provided for titles currently part of the AU juvenile collection. Horn Book Magazine is part of the library journal collection and available through library database collections Academic Search Premier, Education Research Complete, and Literature Resource Center.



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December 5, 2006

Book Lists of Interest

Several annual children's and young adult literature book lists are announced between November (2006) and January (2007) each year. Below is a compilation of a few that may be of interest. Be sure to check the catalog for individual title availability.

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