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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.
Awarded annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. [8] Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: The Boston Globe/The Horn Book Magazine: 1967 Given annually in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. The latter two awards may be either children’s or young adult works.
The book was a New York Times and Indie bestseller [2] and was a winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. [3] It also won the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, [4] the Michael L. Printz Award, [5] and the 2023 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award from the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE. [6]
The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston in 1924, is the oldest bimonthly magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature. [1] It began as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony and Elinor Whitney Field, proprietors of the country's first bookstore for children, The Bookshop for Boys and Girls.
Candace Groth Fleming (born May 24, 1962) [1] is an American writer of children's books, both fiction and non-fiction. [2] She is the author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-honored The Family Romanov and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning biography, The Lincolns, among others.
Rachel Isadora (born 1953) is an American illustrator, children's book author, specializing in picture books, and painter.She is most famous for the book Ben's Trumpet, runner-up for the 1980 Caldecott Medal, or Caldecott Honor Book, and winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book honor.
The Horn Book Magazine included Voice of Freedom on their list of the best nonfiction books of 2015. [5] The Chicago Public Library included it on their list of the "Best Informational Books for Older Readers of 2015". [6] Bank Street College of Education included it on their list of the best books for children ages nine to twelve. [7]
His work has been widely reviewed and he has won several awards, including two Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards from The Horn Book Magazine for children's fiction published in the U.S. (1995, 2011); [10] three Governor General's Literary Awards in Canada (1993, 1995, 2009); [11] three Canadian Library Association Prizes; the Arthur Ellis Award ...