Boston Globe–Horn Book AwardNonfiction

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Other Names: Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award
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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. show more 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. (Copied from official site.) show less
Stages:
All, Winner (168), Honor (258)
Categories:
All, Fiction (105), Fiction & Poetry (42), Nonfiction (130), Picture Book (143), Special Citation (6)
Years:
All, 2023 (3), 2022 (3), 2021 (3), 2020 (2), 2019 (1), 2018 (3), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2014 (3), 2013 (3), 2012 (2), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (3), 2001 (3), 2000 (3), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (2), 1992 (3), 1991 (3), 1990 (2), 1989 (3), 1988 (3), 1987 (4), 1986 (3), 1985 (2), 1984 (4), 1983 (3), 1982 (3), 1981 (4), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1)

Winner 48

WorkYear
Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka2023
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert2022
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo2021
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan2020
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce2019
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero2018
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman2017
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin2016
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming2015
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin2014
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd2013
Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close2012
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin2011
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge2010
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming2009
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís2008
The Strongest Man in the World by Louis Cyrus2007
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty2006
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip M. Hoose2005
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy2004
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman2003
Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People by Bonnie Christensen2002
The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash2001
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson2000
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins1999
Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage1998
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick1997
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story by Andrea Warren1996
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober1995
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman1994
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. Mckissack1993
Talking With Artists: Volume 1 by Pat Cummings1992
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant1991
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz1990
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay1989
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton1988
The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall1987
Auks, rocks, and the odd dinosaur : inside stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History by Peggy Thomson1986
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg1985
The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz1984
Behind Barbed Wire: Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis1983
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal1982
The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky1981
Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario Salvadori1980
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David Kherdian1979
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany by Ilse Koehn1978
Chance, Luck, and Destiny by Peter Dickinson1977
Voyaging to Cathay by Alfred H. Tamarin1976

Honor 82

WorkYear
H Is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson2023
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy2023
The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found by Dina Nayeri2022
Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History by Schele Williams2022
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat2021
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford2021
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear2020
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman2018
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater2018
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin2017
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet2017
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson2016
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford2016
Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire2015
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman2015
The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest--and Most Surprising--Animals on Earth by Steve Jenkins2014
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell2014
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale2013
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Award - Author Winner Title(s)) by Andrea Pinkney2013
Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keeffe Painted What She Pleased by Amy Novesky2012
Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins2011
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross2011
Anne Frank: Her life in words and pictures from the archives of The Anne Frank House by Menno Metselaar2010
Smile by Raina Telgemeier2010
The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay2009
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone2009
Frogs by Nic Bishop2008
What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley2008
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns2007
Escape!: The Story of The Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman2007
A Mother's Journey by Sandra Markle2006
Wildfire by Taylor Morrison2006
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin2005
Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen2005
Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies2004
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon by Bea Uusma Schyffert2004
To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers by Wendie C. Old2003
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick2003
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked by M. T. Anderson2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) by Elizabeth Partridge2002
Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown2001
Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst2001
Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter by Alan Govenar2000
Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin2000
William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki1999
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong1999
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life by Russell Freedman1998
Chuck Close: Up Close by Jan Greenberg1998
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler1997
Leonardo da Vinci (Time-Traveling Twins) by Diane Stanley1997
The Boy Who Lived with the Bears: And Other Iroquois Stories (Parabola Storytime series) by Joseph Bruchac1996
Haystack by Bonnie Geisert1996
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library) by Robie H. Harris1995
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy1995
A Tree Place: And Other Poems by Constance Levy1994
Unconditional Surrender: U. S. Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin1994
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull1993
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert1992
The Handmade Alphabet by Laura Rankin1992
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman1991
Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England by Diane Stanley1991
Insect Metamorphosis: From Egg to Adult by Nancy Goor1990
Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish (A Borzoi book) by Philip M. Isaacson1989
The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep1989
African Journey by John Chiasson1988
Little by Little: A Writer's Education by Jean Little1988
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole1987
Steamboat in a Cornfield by John Hartford1987
Being Born by Sheila Kitzinger1987
Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent K. Ashabranner1986
The truth about Santa Claus by James Cross Giblin1986
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl1985
Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World by Polly Schoyer Brooks1984
Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman1984
The Tipi by David Yue1984
Hiroshima No Pika by Maruki Toshi1983
The Jewish Americans: A History in Their Own Words 1650-1950 by Milton Meltzer1983
Lobo of the Tasaday by John Nance1982
Dinosaurs of North America by Helen Roney Sattler1982
The Hospital Book by James Howe1981
Junk Food, Fast Food, Health Food: What Americans Eat and Why by Lila Perl1981
You can't be timid with a trumpet : notes from the orchestra by Stan Skardinski1981

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