Publications about books for children and young adults
Elissa and Katie have begun uploading our reports and photos from the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards and Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium this past weekend. Aside from having to periodically remind people to speak into their microphones, the two days went very smoothly. The highlight for me was a panel I moderated for HBAS with [...]
Did you miss the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards on Friday, September 28th? Just want to relive the excitement of the ceremony? We’ve compiled a timeline of the evening’s highlights based on tweets by our staff, visitors from our sister publication School Library Journal, and other attendees. See Saturday’s Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium here. 5:30pm: [...]
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards chair Thom Barthelmess talks to Nina and Jonathan over at Heavy Metal. Thom and his fellow judges (Lauren Adams and Megan Lambert) will be in town Friday for the Awards and Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium. I think it’s a lot more work being a BGHB judge than it was when [...]
Apologies to all who tried to come here or elsewhere on our website this weekend only to be greeted with warnings of MALWARE. We quickly determined that this was a false alarm, but getting Google to drop the warning pages took some time and doing. (Who knew Google could thus hold one in its thrall?) [...]
Rebecca Stead proved herself a thoroughly good sport in joining me to announce the winners of the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards last Thursday afternoon at BEA in New York. (More pics here.) This was the first time we attempted to make any kind of a production out of the announcement, and the fact that [...]
For more information about the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, click here. NONFICTION WINNER: Chuck Close: Face Book, written and illustrated by Chuck Close (Abrams Books for Young Readers) NONFICTION HONOR WINNERS: • Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted What She Pleased by Amy Novesky, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Harcourt Children’s Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [...]
Here are some of the first pictures of Horn Book Editor in Chief Roger Sutton and 2010 Fiction Award winner Rebecca Stead making this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards announcement. Stay tuned for more pictures and video!
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 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners.
Picture Book Winner Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon Klassen Primary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp. 1/12 978-0-06-195338-5 $16.99 g When young Annabelle (see p. 5) finds a small box containing yarn of every color, she does what any self-respecting knitter would do: she knits herself a sweater. Then she knits a sweater [...]
Nonfiction Winner Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close Intermediate, Middle School Abrams 56 pp. 4/12 978-1-4197-0163-4 $18.95 Chuck Close’s art and life story are the ideal way to introduce art and artists to children. His work is easy to describe and understand because he creates only portraits, but since he does them in almost [...]
