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It’s BGHB Week! Yesterday we celebrated our Fiction Award winner and honorees; today nonfiction is in the limelight. Read reviews of all of the 2015 nonfiction winners here; see below for more web extras about them. Join us on October 2–3, 2015, for the Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium: Transformations, featuring several 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award recipients.
The 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award winner is The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade).
- 2009 BGHB Nonfiction Award acceptance speech for The Lincolns
- Q&A on The Family Romanov
- Unexpected intertexuality: Reading The Family Romanov alongside Egg & Spoon
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose (Farrar) received a BGHB Nonfiction Honor.
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Penguin/Paulsen) received a BGHB Nonfiction Honor.
- “Dream Keepers”: 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award acceptance speech (plus profile by editor Nancy Paulsen)
- The People in My Neighborhood: One Author/Illustrator’s Rambles Around Brooklyn plus Brooklyn web extras
Also check out our August 2015 What Makes a Good Narrative Nonfiction? newsletter. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s Picture Book Award celebration! For all of our BGHB Week posts, click here.
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