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Hello and thank you! I wish I could travel back in time twenty-five years and tell the high school version of me sitting in class right over there at CRLS [Cambridge Rindge and Latin School] that I’m getting this Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor today. Her mind would be blown. It’s...
“Gee, it’s good to be / Together again.” Kermit the Frog said it best, and being at this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony was a real reminder. For the first time since before COVID-19 (and only our second time back in person since 2019), every award winner and honoree...
There’s nothing like a good library haul! Here’s mine, following the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine issue-to-press date. It’s the issue that begins our hundred-and-second year and contains all the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards speeches along with Fanfare, our annual annotated “best of” list that Notes from the Horn...
Photo: Cynthia K. Ritter. The 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards took place last Thursday, November 6, at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library — and what a time we had! It was only our second time back in person post-COVID-19 (last year was at the beautiful and historic Boston Public Library) and...
The November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine has gone to press, with its hopeful, looking-ahead cover image (by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower, written by Alda P. Dobbs and reviewed in our Holiday High Notes column). And we’re looking ahead ourselves to a busy fall. On October 25, come see...
On Monday, June 23, 2025 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2025 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...
Picture Book Winner I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely; illus. by Matt James Primary Holiday/Porter 32 pp. 10/24 9780823456666 $18.99 In this quietly affecting and beautifully illustrated book, young Belle's drawing of an owl draws praise from her teacher, but the child doesn't want...
Nonfiction Winner Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Middle School, High School Schwartz/Random 368 pp. 4/25 9780593480069 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593480076 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593480083 $11.99 On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple...