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Since the announcement on June 1, we’ve been celebrating our 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners and Honor books with special web extras. Here’s a cheat sheet! Picture Book resources on winner Building Our House: Five Questions for Jonathan Bean, Q&A with Betty Carter, his 2008 BGHB acceptance speech, and his January/February 2009 Horn Book [...]
We asked our staff and reviewers to name their favorite Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. Choosing one favorite proved to be a bigger challenge than we expected — see Kitty Flynn’s six answers and Martha Parravano’s passionate response. Here’s what some of our other staff members had to say: Katie Bircher, Horn Book Assistant Editor: [...]
We asked our staff and reviewers to name their favorite Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. Here’s what our reviewers had to say: Betty Carter: Holes by Louis Sachar (Foster/Farrar, 1999 Fiction Award winner). The circular nature of this novel, from Stanley Yelnats’s palindromic name to the combination of family histories, creates a full and satisfying [...]
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were established in 1967; here are some fun facts from the BGHB’s forty-six-year history. How well do you know the honorees? Click here to see the full list of all winners and Honor Books; find more on this year’s winners here. Q: Two books have won the Boston Globe–Horn Book [...]
Five questions for Ann M. Martin Better to Wish [Family Tree] by Ann M. Martin, Scholastic, 10–14 years. Middle-grade family stories The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata; illus. by Julia Kuo, Atheneum, 10–14 years. The Romeo and Juliet Code and Romeo Blue by Phoebe Stone, Levine/Scholastic, 10–14 years. One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be [...]
On Saturday, June 1, at BookExpo America, Horn Book Editor in Chief Roger Sutton and 2010 BGHB Fiction winner Rebecca Stead announced the winners of the 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. For more on this year’s winners — including the Horn Book’s reviews — click here. NONFICTION WINNER: Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and [...]
Fiction Winner Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell High School St. Martin’s Griffin 328 pp. 2/13 978-1-250-01257-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-03121-1 $9.99 It’s the start of a new school year in 1986 Omaha when sophomores Eleanor and Park meet for the first time on the bus. They are an unusual pair: [...]
Picture Book Winner Building Our House by Jonathan Bean; illus. by the author Primary Farrar 48 pp. 1/13 978-0-374-38023-6 $17.99 g Drawing on childhood memories from his own family’s house construction (see author’s note), Bean creates an engaging story as well as a glimpse into a warm family setting. A little girl narrates, [...]
Nonfiction Winner Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd; illus. by the author Intermediate Dial 40 pp. 9/12 978-0-8037-3749-5 $17.99 With a jacket showing Benjamin Franklin as a cross between a mad scientist and a superhero standing amid wild lightning bolts and surrounded by all manner of [...]
Today, at BookExpo America, The Horn Book’s editor in chief Roger Sutton and 2010 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning author Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me, Random House) announced the 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. “The Boston Globe-Horn Book awards have always had an independent spirit and this year is no different,” said Sutton. “Each [...]
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