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I Know How to Draw an Owl: Matt James’s 2025 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech
Thanks so much. I’m incredibly honoured to be here again! Wild. The last time I was here — for I Know Here, by Laurel Croza—I felt like a total outsider. Laurel and I were sitting next to legends: Peter Sís, John Burningham, and Helen Oxenbury — all these people whose work...
I Know How to Draw an Owl: Hilary Horder Hippely’s 2025 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech
Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this wonderful and completely surprising award, and to the brilliance of Neal Porter and Matt James. Congratulations to everyone who is being honored here today and, as well, to all the authors and illustrators who have had the joy of...
My Daddy Is a Cowboy: C. G. Esperanza’s 2025 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
In my decade-long journey to becoming a picture-book illustrator/author, I have learned many things. Photo: Shoshana Flax. I have learned how to rap a book on stage in front of an auditorium full of kids without fear! I have also learned how to go with the flow when the kid...
My Daddy Is a Cowboy: Stephanie Seales’s 2025 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
Thank you so much for this honor. I wrote My Daddy Is a Cowboy in 2020, which was a difficult year for all of us. In the midst of such suffering, I felt the need for joy more keenly than I ever had before. Out of that need came this...
Nose to Nose: Thyra Heder’s 2025 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
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...
2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards at Cambridge Public Library
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...
From the Editor - October 2025
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...
Presenting the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners
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...
Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner and Honor Books
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...
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