Boston Globe–Horn Book AwardWinner

Given by Boston Globe

Other Names: Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award
168 Works 0 Books
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
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All, Winner (168), Honor (258)
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All, 2023 (3), 2022 (3), 2021 (3), 2020 (3), 2019 (3), 2018 (3), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2014 (3), 2013 (4), 2012 (3), 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 (4), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (3), 1991 (3), 1990 (4), 1989 (3), 1988 (3), 1987 (3), 1986 (3), 1985 (3), 1984 (3), 1983 (3), 1982 (3), 1981 (3), 1980 (4), 1979 (3), 1978 (3), 1977 (5), 1976 (3), 1975 (2), 1974 (2), 1973 (2), 1972 (2), 1971 (2), 1970 (2), 1969 (2), 1968 (2), 1967 (2)

Winner 168

WorkCategoryYear
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline BoulleyFiction & Poetry2023
Sunshine by Jarrett J. KrosoczkaNonfiction2023
When You Can Swim by Jack WongPicture Book2023
All My Rage by Sabaa TahirFiction & Poetry2022
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy ColbertNonfiction2022
Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason ReynoldsPicture Book2022
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-GarciaFiction & Poetry2021
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula YooNonfiction2021
I Talk Like a River by Jordan ScottPicture Book2021
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen CallenderFiction & Poetry2020
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley BryanNonfiction2020
Saturday by Oge MoraPicture Book2020
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla MagoonFiction & Poetry2019
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen BoyceNonfiction2019
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba ClarkePicture Book2019
The Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoFiction & Poetry2018
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel QuinteroNonfiction2018
They Say Blue by Jillian TamakiPicture Book2018
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasFiction & Poetry2017
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah HeiligmanNonfiction2017
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley BryanPicture Book2017
The Lie Tree by Frances HardingeFiction2016
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve SheinkinNonfiction2016
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph by Roxane OrgillPicture Book2016
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms by Katherine RundellFiction2015
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace FlemingNonfiction2015
The Farmer and the Clown by Marla FrazeePicture Book2015
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew SmithFiction2014
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve SheinkinNonfiction2014
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter BrownPicture Book2014
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow RowellFiction2013
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert ByrdNonfiction2013
Building Our House by Jonathan BeanPicture Book2013
Open This Little Book by Jesse KlausmeierPicture Book2013
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonFiction2012
Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck CloseNonfiction2012
Extra Yarn by Mac BarnettPicture Book2012
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-JonesFiction2011
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve SheinkinNonfiction2011
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley MavorPicture Book2011
When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadFiction & Poetry2010
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth PartridgeNonfiction2010
I Know Here by Laurel CrozaPicture Book2010
Nation by Terry PratchettFiction & Poetry2009
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace FlemingNonfiction2009
Bubble Trouble by Margaret MahyPicture Book2009
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieFiction & Poetry2008
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter SísNonfiction2008
At Night by Jonathan BeanPicture Book2008
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. AndersonFiction & Poetry2007
The Strongest Man in the World by Louis CyrusNonfiction2007
Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories by Laura Vaccaro SeegerPicture Book2007
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamilloFiction & Poetry2006
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNultyNonfiction2006
Leaf Man by Lois EhlertPicture Book2006
The Schwa was Here by Neal ShustermanFiction & Poetry2005
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip M. HooseNonfiction2005
Traction Man is Here! by Mini GreyPicture Book2005
The Fire-Eaters by David AlmondFiction & Poetry2004
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim MurphyNonfiction2004
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai GersteinPicture Book2004
The Jamie and Angus Stories by Anne FineFiction & Poetry2003
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira KalmanNonfiction2003
Big Momma Makes the World by Phyllis RootPicture Book2003
Lord of the Deep by Graham SalisburyFiction & Poetry2002
Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People by Bonnie ChristensenNonfiction2002
"Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate by Bob GrahamPicture Book2002
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn NelsonFiction & Poetry2001
The Longitude Prize by Joan DashNonfiction2001
Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelicePicture Book2001
The Folk Keeper by Franny BillingsleyFiction2000
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc AronsonNonfiction2000
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. JohnsonPicture Book2000
Holes by Louis SacharFiction1999
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve JenkinsNonfiction1999
Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy CowleyPicture Book1999
Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter SísSpecial Citation1999
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco JimenezFiction1998
Leon's Story by Leon Walter TillageNonfiction1998
And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate BanksPicture Book1998
The Friends by Kazumi YumotoFiction1997
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter WickNonfiction1997
The Adventures Of Sparrowboy by Brian PinkneyPicture Book1997
Poppy by AviFiction1996
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story by Andrea WarrenNonfiction1996
In the Rain with Baby Duck by Amy HestPicture Book1996
Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-JonesFiction1995
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. BoberNonfiction1995
John Henry by Julius LesterPicture Book1995
Scooter by Vera B. WilliamsFiction1994
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell FreedmanNonfiction1994
Grandfather's Journey by Allen SayPicture Book1994
Ajeemah and His Son (Willa Perlman Books) by James BerryFiction1993
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. MckissackNonfiction1993
The Fortune-Tellers by Lloyd AlexanderPicture Book1993
Missing May by Cynthia RylantFiction1992
Talking With Artists: Volume 1 by Pat CummingsNonfiction1992
Seven Blind Mice by Ed YoungPicture Book1992
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AviFiction1991
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia RylantNonfiction1991
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine PatersonPicture Book1991
Maniac Magee by Jerry SpinelliFiction1990
The Great Little Madison by Jean FritzNonfiction1990
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed YoungPicture Book1990
Valentine and Orson by Nancy Ekholm BurkertSpecial Citation1990
The Village by the Sea by Paula FoxFiction1989
The Way Things Work by David MacaulayNonfiction1989
Shy Charles by Rosemary WellsPicture Book1989
The Friendship by Mildred D. TaylorFiction1988
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia HamiltonNonfiction1988
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne SnyderPicture Book1988
Rabble Starkey by Lois LowryFiction1987
The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia SewallNonfiction1987
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John SteptoePicture Book1987
In Summer Light by Zibby OnealFiction1986
Auks, rocks, and the odd dinosaur : inside stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History by Peggy ThomsonNonfiction1986
The Paper Crane by Molly BangPicture Book1986
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce BrooksFiction1985
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda BlumbergNonfiction1985
1, 2, 3 Board Book by Tana HobanSpecial Citation1985
A Little Fear by Patricia WrightsonFiction1984
The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean FritzNonfiction1984
Jonah and the Great Fish by Warwick HuttonPicture Book1984
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia HamiltonFiction1983
Behind Barbed Wire: Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. DavisNonfiction1983
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. WilliamsPicture Book1983
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth ParkFiction1982
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka SiegalNonfiction1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy WillardPicture Book1982
The Leaving by Lynn HallFiction1981
The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn LaskyNonfiction1981
Outside Over There by Maurice SendakPicture Book1981
Conrad's War by Andrew DaviesFiction1980
Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario SalvadoriNonfiction1980
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van AllsburgPicture Book1980
Magical Changes by Graham OakleySpecial Citation1980
Humbug Mountain by Sid FleischmanFiction1979
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David KherdianNonfiction1979
The Snowman by Raymond BriggsPicture Book1979
The Westing Game by Ellen RaskinFiction1978
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany by Ilse KoehnNonfiction1978
Anno's Journey by Mitsumasa AnnoPicture Book1978
Child of the Owl by Laurence YepFiction1977
Chance, Luck, and Destiny by Peter DickinsonNonfiction1977
Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason by Wallace TrippPicture Book1977
The Changing City by Jörg MüllerSpecial Citation1977
The Changing Countryside by Jörg MüllerSpecial Citation1977
Unleaving by Jill Paton WalshFiction1976
Voyaging to Cathay by Alfred H. TamarinNonfiction1976
Thirteen by Remy CharlipPicture Book1976
Transport 7-41-R by Terry DegensFiction1975
Anno's Alphabet by Mitsumasa AnnoPicture Book1975
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia HamiltonFiction1974
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel FeelingsPicture Book1974
The Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperFiction1973
King Stork by Howard PylePicture Book1973
Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary SutcliffFiction1972
Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John BurninghamPicture Book1972
A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor CameronFiction1971
If I Built a Village by Kazue MizumuraPicture Book1971
The Intruder by John Rowe TownsendFiction1970
Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack KeatsPicture Book1970
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinFiction1969
Adventures of Paddy Pork by John S. GoodallPicture Book1969
The Spring Rider by John LawsonFiction1968
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene MoselPicture Book1968
The Little Fishes by Erik Christian HaugaardFiction1967
London Bridge is Falling Down by Peter SpierPicture Book1967

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