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2009
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards
A best-selling British novelist, an innovative American biographer, and New Zealand’s most prodigious storyteller took the top prizes when the 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced on June 2, 2009. Presented annually since 1967, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards reward excellence in children’s and young adult literature and are given in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book. The 2009 winners are:
All three of the winning authors are widely renowned. Mr. Pratchett, perhaps best known for his raucous comic fantasies for children and adults, displays a philosophical bent with Nation, a young adult novel about two nineteenth-century children who create a new society from the ground up. Candace Fleming’s dual biography of the President and Mrs. Lincoln employs the intricate scrapbook format that distinguished her earlier Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor. Margaret Mahy, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a two-time recipient of Boston Globe–Horn Book Award honor book citations, has written scores of novels, easy readers, and picture books. Bubble Trouble, a tongue-twisting tale about an airborne baby, marks the New Zealander’s second collaboration with English illustrator Polly Dunbar. The judges selected two honor books in each category:
David Macaulay, co-creator of this year’s The Way We Work and winner of a 1989 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for its companion volume, The Way Things Work, is one of three honor book recipients in 2009 who have been previously recognized. M. T. Anderson won the fiction prize in 2007 for the first part of his historical saga, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party. Kevin Henkes was a 1994 honor book recipient for his picture book Owen. Neil Gaiman, although a newcomer to this accolade, is certainly familiar with major awards. The Graveyard Book won the 2009 Newbery Medal. The 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony were held on Friday, October 2, 2009, at the Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts. Most of the honored authors and illustrators were on hand to accept their awards and deliver their acceptance speeches. All children’s and young adult books published in the United States between June 2008 and May 2009 were eligible for the award. The winning authors and illustrators may be citizens of any country. Winners in each category receive a cash prize and an engraved silver bowl. Honor book recipients receive an engraved silver plate. The acceptance speeches of the award winners will be published in the January/February 2010 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. The 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards judges:
For more information about the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards and The Horn Book, Inc., contact Katrina Hedeen at khedeen@hbook.com, Rochelle Rupp at rrupp@hbook.com or call 617-628-0225, ext. 221.
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