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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.
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.
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 Miraculous Journey won the 2006 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for children's fiction [4] and a Parents' Choice Award for Spring 2006 fiction. [5] It was a Quill Awards finalist in the children's chapter book category. [6] In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association named it one of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on an ...
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book is a 1974 picture book written by Muriel Feelings and illustrated by Tom Feelings. It is an abecedarium of Swahili terms for the 24 letters in the Swahili alphabet. Jambo Means Hello won the 1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1975.
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.
In addition, it was dubbed a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and an International Reading Association Teacher's Choice. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and was named a Top Ten American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults among many additional ...
Arlene Tichy Mosel (August 27, 1921 – May 1996) was an American children's librarian who wrote the text for two award-winning children's picture books illustrated by Blair Lent. Tikki Tikki Tembo won the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and Lent won the annual Caldecott Medal for The Funny Little Woman.