Publications about books for children and young adults
Since 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards have honored excellence in writing and illustrating books for young people.
By Amanda Freymann and Joan Sommers Chuck Close is so very honored to receive this award, and is so sorry he cannot be here. These masks were made from two of the hundreds of self-portraits he has created. We thought it was a fitting way to bring him into the room tonight. On behalf of [...]
“Knowledge is power! You need it every hour! Read a book!” With words like these, how could I have resisted falling under the spell of Lewis Michaux? I am thrilled that his story has been embraced by so many others. The man who said, “If you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, then [...]
Vaunda, I’m happy to be onstage with you once again. Keep it up, Mrs. Micheaux Nelson, because knock on wood, we are on a roll! I’d like to take the opportunity to tell Vaunda Micheaux Nelson about my deep respect for her talent. The images for No Crystal Stair were a direct result of her [...]
I’m glad to be here tonight in your company, and I’m glad that our book is in the company of this year’s honorees and the winners of years past. It’s a thrill. I want to thank my agent Steven Malk, an always-trusty advisor, and Balzer + Bray for publishing our book. And I want to [...]
Illustrators are notoriously good at giving speeches. When they decide to get into illustration, it is secretly because they know how good they are at public speaking, and they can’t wait until the day when they win an award so they can finally show a room full of literary people how great they are at [...]
The 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award ceremony has been divided into the following YouTube video segments. If you’d like to see some photographs, click here. For a page of tweets from the ceremony, click here. For a Horn Book @ Simmons Twitter timeline, click here. And stay tuned for more to come in the January/February [...]
Photos from the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards and The Horn Book at Simmons: Look Out! Also check out video from the event, our Twitter timelines for BGHB and HBAS, press release for the books, and the HBAS program.
As promised: Here is the start of the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards videos. Check out Roger Sutton and Cathie Mercier’s welcome remarks, along with acceptance speeches by the picture book winners and honorees, introduced by BGHB judge Megan Lambert. Stay tuned for fiction and nonfiction winners next week! More on the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards [...]
On Saturday, September 29, we held our third annual Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium with the theme “Look Out!”. Miss the fun? We’ve compiled a timeline of the day’s highlights based on tweets by our staff, visitors from our sister publication School Library Journal, and other attendees. See Friday’s ceremony timeline here. 9:13am: Good morning! [...]
We just can’t get enough of our Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners! After spending two great days with them at the ceremony on Friday night and the colloquium on Saturday, we’re back at the office sorting through the weekend’s tweets, speeches, and (300-plus!) photos. We’ve compiled a timeline of Friday night’s highlights; Saturday’s are coming [...]
