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Horn Book editor in chief Roger Sutton and Boston Globe Foundation president Emily Procknal announced the 2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners on May 31st, 2018, via Facebook Live. A winner and two honor books were selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. You can watch the announcement video here and read the press release here.
Read reviews of all of the 2018 Nonfiction winners here; see below for more web extras about them.
WINNER
The 2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award winner is Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide written by Isabel Quintero, illustrated by Zeke Peña (Getty).
- Five questions for Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña on Photographic [coming soon]
HONOR BOOKS
A Hundred Billion Tillion Stars by Seth Fishman, illustrated by Isabel Greenberg (Greenwillow) received a BGHB Nonfiction Award Honor.
- Horn Book Fanfare 2017 (January/February 2018 Horn Book Magazine)
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (Farrar) received a BGHB Nonfiction Award Honor.
From the June 2018 issue of The Horn Book Herald. Click here for a list of past BGHB winners and honorees. For book reviews, acceptance speeches, and more, click on the tags Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards or BGHB18.
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