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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...
Black History Month 2026
In commemoration of Black History Month, we'll be featuring articles, speeches, and interviews from The Horn Book's past year that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field — one a weekday through the month of February. Last Monday's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement saw...
Adventure awaits!
With Black History Month coming in February, here are four page-turning tales across genres for intermediate and/or middle-school readers where Black history or identity plays a role in the action. For many more Black History Month resources, see the Black History Month tag on hbook.com, and the African Americans tag...
The Writer's Page: Freedom Braids: The Power of Metaphors in "Liberation Literature"
Children are highly attuned to human emotions, curiously observant, and intuitively responsive to their environments. They begin to form ideas of fairness in early childhood. While they don’t yet understand all the complexities of the world, children are more aware than adults realize and could actually benefit from learning the...
Profile of 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford
I fell in love with Black history at a very young age. I come from a family with roots in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Detroit. A family of Black cowboys, storytellers, landowners, entrepreneurs, gin makers, community leaders, and doctors. Unfortunately, I didn’t grow up seeing these stories told in the...
2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Carole Boston Weatherford
I am filled with gratitude because I know that none of this had to be: not the eighty-plus books, not the nineteen American Library Association Youth Media Awards, not the NAACP Image Awards, not the nomination as Young People’s Poet Laureate, not the opportunities to travel across the country and...
The New Brownies' Book: Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer's 2024 BGHB Special Citation Speech
CHARLY PALMER: We want to start by thanking the committee for this incredible honor. We are truly surprised, humbled, and so grateful to be standing here today, receiving this special citation. It’s a rare acknowledgment — given only seven times in the entire history of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards...
Kin: Jeffery Boston Weatherford's 2024 BGHB Poetry Award Speech
First and foremost, I would of course like to thank the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this honor, the entire creative team at Simon & Schuster, and our agent, Rubin Pfeffer, for catalyzing this project in the first place. Rubin, you have been a light in this journey, always...
Kin: Carole Boston Weatherford's 2024 BGHB Poetry Award Speech
I’d like to thank the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this honor. Thanks also to Reka Simonsen, my editor at Simon & Schuster, for your faith in bringing this project to life. Last but not least, I am indebted to my agent, Rubin Pfeffer, for planting the seed for...
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