2007
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards
for Excellence in Children’s Literature
A Boston slave at the dawn of the
Revolutionary War, a nineteenth-century French-Canadian strongman,
and a timeless pair of buddies are the subjects of the three books
that captured the top honors when the Boston Globe–Horn Book
Awards were announced on June 4, 2007.
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, which have been annually
presented since 1967, are given in three categories: Fiction and
Poetry, Picture Book, and Nonfiction. The 2007 winners are:
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The Astonishing
Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The
Pox Party (Candlewick) by M.
T. Anderson |
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Picture Book: |
Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three
Stories (Porter/Roaring Brook) written and illustrated
by Laura
Vaccaro Seeger |
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Nonfiction: |
The Strongest Man in the World:
Louis Cyr (Groundwood) written and illustrated by Nicolas
Debon |
The Astonishing Life of Octavian
Nothing also won the 2006 National Book Award for Young People’s
Literature and was named a 2007 Printz Honor Book. Two previous
books by Mr. Anderson were Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor
Books: Handel, Who Knew What He Liked in 2002 and Feed
in 2003. Laura Vaccaro Seeger, an Emmy Award–winner for her
television animation, began her picture book career in 2001 when
she collaborated with her husband’s uncle, folksinger Pete
Seeger, on I Had a Rooster. Nonfiction winner Nicolas Debon
started to write and illustrate when he lived in Toronto, where
he spent a decade before returning to his native France.
The judges also selected two honor books in each category:
Two of the honor book winners are
making return trips to the ceremony. Sid Fleischman, this time singled
out for nonfiction, won the 1979 fiction award for Humbug Mountain.
Tim Wynne-Jones won the fiction prize in 1995 for Some of the
Kinder Planets.
The 2007 Boston Globe–Horn
Book Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, October 12, 2007, at
the Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts. The honored authors
and illustrators are expected to be 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 2006 and May 2007 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 2008 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.
The 2007 Boston Globe–Horn
Book Awards judges:
| Betty Carter, Chair |
Professor Emerita, School of Library and Information
Studies, Texas Woman’s University and reviewer, The
Horn Book Magazine |
| Julie Roach |
Head of Main Library Children's Room, Cambridge Public
Library, Cambridge Massachusetts
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| Anita Silvey |
Former Editor in Chief of The Horn Book Magazine
and author of 100 Best Books for Children |
For more information about the Boston
Globe–Horn Book Awards and The Horn Book, Inc., contact Katrina
Hedeen at khedeen@hbook.com
or Rachel L. Smith at rsmith@hbook.com,
or call 617-628-0225, ext. 221.
About the Awards | Past
Winners and Honor Books | Submission
Guidelines
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