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2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Acceptance Speeches Roundup
The 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, judges, and presenters. L-R: Brian Norman, Jason Chin, Miranda Paul, Cynthia K. Ritter, Kekla Magoon, Kim Parker, Roger Sutton, Adib Khorram, Yuyi Morales, Debbie Levy, Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Gina Krosoczka, Zoe Krosoczka, Karen Boss, and Meredith Goldstein. Photo: Aram Boghosian for the...
2019 in review
Happy New Year! We hope your year is full of great reads and good friends. As we kick off 2020, it's also a good time to take a stroll down memory lane at 2019. We had a very busy year, including our two newly revamped websites hbook.com and hornbookguide.com --...
Table of Contents: January/February 2020 Horn Book Magazine
Cover © 2020 by Van Thanh Rudd. Features Horn Book Fanfare by Horn Book Editors Our choices for the best books of 2019. Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards BGHB Awards Gallery 2019 Celebrating the year’s winners and honorees. Picture Book Fiction and Poetry Nonfiction MAGICIAN by Henry Lyman A poem...
This Promise of Change: Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy's 2019 BGHB Nonfiction Award Speech
Co-authors Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy delivered their acceptance remarks as a conversation. JO ANN ALLEN BOYCE: Thank you. I speak for both Debbie and myself in expressing our gratitude to The Boston Globe, The Horn Book, and the awards committee. (We’re sending our healing wishes to the chair of...
Nine Months: Illustrator Jason Chin's 2019 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
When our editor, Neal Porter, came to me with this manuscript a few years ago, I was very excited because it was by Miranda Paul. I read it, and it was terrific. I was all ready to sign up, but then I got scared. I thought, How the heck am I...
Nine Months: Author Miranda Paul's 2019 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
Thank you for honoring Nine Months. (It’s a risky thing to tell your agent and editor you want to write a children’s book, intended for the trade market and aimed at three-to-six-year-olds, on the topic of fetal development.) Tonight you honor a ten-year journey to produce a book that I had wanted, but...
Hey, Kiddo: Jarrett J. Krosoczka's 2019 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
Hey, Kiddo is the story of my family history, and while it centers specifically on my upbringing, way back in the 1980s and 1990s, it is also the story of so many young people in America today. My hope is that my graphic memoir allows readers dealing with family trauma to...
The Season of Styx Malone: Kekla Magoon's 2019 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Award Speech
A few years back, a friend and I went into a frozen yogurt shop — you know, one of those places where they give you a big bowl and you fill it with whatever flavors and toppings you want, and then they weigh the monstrosity you’ve created and charge you fifteen...
On the Come Up: Angie Thomas's 2019 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech
Friends, homies, and everything in between, I am so sorry that I cannot be there with you tonight. When I got the news that On the Come Up was a Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree, I was stunned. Yes, even after everything I’ve experienced, I still get stunned. The last time I saw...