Book Awards
Nonfiction Winner Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan; illus. by the author Middle School, High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 107 pp. 10/19 978-1-5344-0490-8 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0491-5 $10.99 Ashley Bryan was a nineteen-year-old art student when he was drafted into a segregated army...
Fiction and Poetry Winner King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 263 pp. g 2/20 978-1-338-12933-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-12935-9 $10.99 In their second middle-grade novel (Hurricane Child, rev. 5/18), set in contemporary small-town Louisiana, Callender masterfully balances resonant themes of grief, love, family, friendship, racism,...
Picture Book Winner Saturday by Oge Mora; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. g 10/19 978-0-316-43127-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-43126-2 $9.99 Mora (Thank You, Omu!, rev. 11/18) follows up her Caldecott Honor winner with another story built around family and community connection. On Saturdays, Ava and...
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at SLJ's virtual Day of Dialog, Horn Book editor in chief Roger Sutton announced the 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you missed the live stream (or if you just want to relive the excitement!), you can watch the archived video here: ...
During the past few years I have on occasion found myself in front of a classroom or in a library trying to talk to children about writing books. I have never been a success at this. For one thing, I have learned that questions come in twos. If one child...
Scroll through the slideshow below for some of our favorites moments (and meals!) from ALA Midwinter 2020. Read The Horn Book's reviews of this year's Youth Media Award winners, and catch up on Calling Caldecott. As always, the July/August issue of The Horn Book Magazine will include the Newbery, Caldecott,...
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Jerry Craft for New Kid and Kadir Nelson for The Undefeated on January 27, 2020, at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Philadelphia. Also announced at the gathering were the winners of the Coretta...
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher (Orbit/Hachette) Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh (Saga Press/Gallery Books/Simon) Dominicana by Angie Cruz (Flatiron/Macmillan) Gender Queer: A Memoir by...
Winner Stop! Bot! by James Yang; illus. by the author Preschool Viking 40 pp. g 7/19 978-0-42528-881-8 $17.99 After a child's remote-control robot flies away in front of an apartment building, the building's residents try to help retrieve it ("My broom may reach that bot!"). The book's tall trim size...
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