Horn Book Award
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were first presented by The Boston Globe and Horn Book Magazine in 1967, honoring children's and young adult literature. Awards are given in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction.
2012
No award given
2011
No award given
2010
Fiction and Poetry Winner - When You Reach Me
Honor
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
Nonfiction Winner - Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
by Elizabeth Partridge
Elizabeth Partridge, who won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction in 2002 for This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life... more
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Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by Menno Metselaar...
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Picture Book Winner - I Know Here
Honor
It’s A Secret! by John Burningham
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
2009
Honor
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nonfiction Winner - The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay
Picture Book Winner - Bubble Trouble
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Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes