From the July/August 2009 issue of The Horn Book Magazine

Best use of fewest colors	Ghosts in the House! by Kazuno Kohara
Best use of lots of colors	Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
Most beautiful endpaper color	Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Best friends	The Cardboard Piano by Lynne Rae Perkins
Best adversaries	Dinosaur vs. Bedtime by Bob Shea
Best friends and best adversaries	Traction Man Meets Turbodog by Mini Grey
Scariest faerie	The Good Neighbors: Kin by Holly Black, illustrated by Ted Naifeh
Scariest ghost	All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
Scariest goat	The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson
Scariest mollusk	Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator by Sarah C. Campbell
Best house tour	Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
Best tour of London	The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Best tour of the human body	The Way We Work by David Macaulay
Best tour of the moon	One Small Step by P. B. Kerr
Best series opener	The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best series closer	Forever Rose by Hilary McKay

From the July/August 2009 issue of The Horn Book Magazine