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I know I said May was my favorite month, but hello June! Earlier this week The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art announced its 2024 Carle Honors Honorees — and, thrillingly, the Horn Book is among them, as MENTOR. Read the press release here; and, yes, we’re still pinching...
On Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2024 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...
Picture Book Winner Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 10/23 9780823442621 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823450237 $11.99 A mother and child lie in bed, sharing memories in the dark. Changes in font color and placement guide readers in knowing who is speaking...
Fiction Winner Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 192 pp. 10/23 9780399545467 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780399545481 $10.99 Sage Durham, a basketball-obsessed Black twelve-year-old, is looking forward to a summer of pick-up games with the boys (she’s always the only girl on the court) in her close-knit 1970s Brooklyn...
Nonfiction and Poetry Winners Nonfiction Winner The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; illus. by Brett Helquist Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 288 pp. 9/23 9780593643846 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593643853 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593643860 $11.99 The...
Special Citation The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families by Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer Chronicle 208 pp. 10/23 9781797216829 $40.00 This inspiring and impressive volume is a tribute to the original Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun (an offshoot of W. E....
NEW: Register for the 2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Virtual Celebration! Join us LIVE online Friday, November 3, 2023, at 5:00pm Eastern for our first-ever, virtual, free Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration! The 2023 BGHB winners — Angeline Boulley, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, and Jack Wong — will read their acceptance speeches,...
“Is a book about swimming really just about swimming?” When You Can Swim by Jack Wong (Orchard/Scholastic, 4–8 years) — winner of the just-announced 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award! — is a joyful, inclusive, reassuring picture book that encourages all readers to take the plunge. 1. Did you...
In case you missed it, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced yesterday; yes, we secretly knew, when we asked Scholastic if we could do a Five Questions interview with Jack Wong for this issue of Notes, that he had won the Picture Book Award for When You Can Swim,...
On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2023 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...