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Newbery 2011
As a member of two Newbery committees myself (A Single Shard, 2002; Criss Cross, 2006), I have tried to school myself against second-guessing what goes on behind those closed doors every January. It’s a certainty that committee members have read all of the books more often than I have, and...
Drumroll, please!
The 2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award recipients are:FictionWinner: Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick)Honor: Chime by Franny Billingsley (Dial)Honor: Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke (Kane Miller)NonfictionWinner: The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)Honor: Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers...
2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
The 2011 BGHB winners are:FictionWinner: Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick)Honor: Chime by Franny Billingsley (Dial)Honor: Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke (Kane Miller)NonfictionWinner: The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)Honor: Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way...
2011 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature
What do teenagers surviving alone on the streets of Toronto, a Revolutionary War traitor who makes historians nervous, and uniquely illustrated nursery rhymes have in common? They’re the books that won top honors in the 2011 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. The Awards were announced on June 13, 2011....
I Know Here: Author Laurel Croza’s 2011 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech
Whoo! I feel like the rookie who, on the very first day she’s called up to the major leagues, knocks the ball clear out of Fenway Park. The rookie who, after her very lucky first hit, stands rooted beside home plate, thinking, What did I just do?That’s me, flash-frozen in...
>I didn't see this coming.
>Round 2 of the BoB has begun, with Tim Wynne Jones choosing Kingdom on the Waves over Trouble Begins at Eight. The judges do not have all appeared to get my memo: in this round it was supposed to be Kingdom v. Graveyard Book, Chains v. Tender Morsels, Frankie Landau-Banks...
>May/June stars
>The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June issue of The Horn Book Magazine:Not All Animals Are Blue (Kane/Miller) written and illustrated by Béatrice BoutignonTacky Goes to Camp (Houghton) written by Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn MunsingerBubble Trouble (Clarion) written by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly DunbarHook (Porter/Roaring...
>People Lust for Fame Like Athletes in a Game
>Is or is not "Stars" the most lugubrious song Janis Ian ever wrote? And that is saying a lot.In either event, here are the starred books from the March/April Horn Book Magazine:Dog and Bear: Two’s Company (Porter/Roaring Brook) written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro SeegerRex Zero, King of Nothing (Kroupa/Farrar)...
Future Classics: Tuck Everlasting
by Tim Wynne-JonesMy guess is that in the next hundred years they aren't going to find a cure for death. Our children's children's children's children's children might live to be a hundred and forty — poor souls — but while they are still children, each of them will one day...
Horn Book Fanfare 1995
Best books of 1995Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksGrandaddy’s Stars written by Helen V. Griffith, illustrated by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)In the Rain with Baby Duck written by Amy Hest, illustrated by Jill...
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