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The Horn Book celebrates BGHB @ 50
2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. You can download and print Lolly Robinson's beautifully designed poster of the award winners here. Throughout the year, we will be celebrating award winners, past and present, with a series of articles, interviews, reminiscences, and more. Look for our...
2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards speeches
Follow the links below to be inspired, moved, awed, and entertained by the complete 2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards speeches (and while you're at it, re-watch the 2016 BGHB announcement with Roger Sutton and Linda Pizzuti Henry — you won't regret it!). Click on the tags BGHB16 and HBAS16 for...
Voice of Freedom: Illustrator Ekua Holmes's 2016 BGHB NF Honor Speech
I am extremely honored to be here. Not in my wildest dreams did I imagine work that I’ve done being honored in this way. It’s my maiden voyage. I’m so fortunate that I worked with an amazing publisher, Candlewick; I worked with an amazing and prolific author, Carole Boston Weatherford;...
Voice of Freedom: Author Carole Boston Weatherford's 2016 BGHB NF Honor Speech
I could not have written these poems without the ancestors. I call on them again and again, and their spirits continue to speak to and through me.This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.That African American spiritual was Fannie Lou...
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Author M. T. Anderson's 2016 BGHB NF Honor Speech
This book is a hymn, I hope, to a composer I love and to the power of music in general. It began when my interest was piqued by the idea of a symphony considered so important that it was transferred onto microfilm like some dossier in a spy novel and...
The Lie Tree: Author Frances Hardinge's 2016 BGHB Fiction Award Speech
Writing is a thoroughly weird job. Writers perform in a void for an invisible audience. We show the tender insides of our brains to people we will probably never meet.Sometimes I’m asked whether I write for an “ideal reader” or a particular “market.” To be honest, I don’t really know...
Goodbye Stranger: Author Rebecca Stead’s 2016 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech
My childhood took place in the 1970s, and because my parents were lefties who moved to New York to lead liberated lives, they wanted me to have a certain number of touchy-feely activities. One of these was a class where we hit defenseless floor pillows with Bataka encounter bats in...
The Hired Girl: Author Laura Amy Schlitz’s 2016 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech
Joan would be happy that I’m here. She’d be thrilled to find herself in the Athens of America: the city of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Candlewick Press.I’m thrilled too, so gleeful that I’m going to share a secret, a truth not universally acknowledged in the writing world: Sometimes...
Jazz Day: Illustrator Francis Vallejo’s 2016 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech
My sincere thanks to all those who have made this day possible: the wonderful Candlewick team, and my home team — my parents and my remarkable girlfriend. And of course my partner in this project, Roxane! I am truly honored that Jazz Day has received this award.The arts are in...
Jazz Day: Author Roxane Orgill’s 2016 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech
When I’m asked how this book came to be, I usually say that I was at a party and a woman I hadn’t met before, a person in children’s book publishing, said, “Someone should write a book about the famous Harlem jazz photograph.”That’s true. But it’s not the whole story....
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