Comments on: Fiction Reviews of 2012 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winner and Honor Books

By: 2012 BGHB ceremony timeline — The Horn Book

2012 BGHB ceremony timeline — The Horn Book — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:31:07 +0000

[...] Judge Lauren Adams introduces the fiction awards… First up honoree Mal [...]

By: 2012 Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium timeline — The Horn Book

2012 Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium timeline — The Horn Book — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:30:25 +0000

[...] BGHB judge Lauren Adams introducing fiction panel: “We all felt both lucky and challenged to have such great books to choose [...]

By: 2012 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature — The Horn Book

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:57:48 +0000

[...] FICTION AWARD WINNER: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Lerner) Lewis Michaux opened the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem at the end of the Great Depression with an inventory of five books and a strong faith that black people were hungry for knowledge. For the next thirty-five years, his store became a central gathering place for African American writers, artists, intellectuals, political figures and ordinary citizens. In a daring combination of fiction and nonfiction and word and image, thirty-six narrative voices are interwoven with articles from the New York Amsterdam News, excerpts from Michaux’s FBI file and family papers and photographs. Read The Horn Book‘s review [...]