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Horn Book Reminiscences: My Horn Book Treasures

The author's Horn Book (and other) treasures. Photo: Celia C. Pérez. I keep a storage bin filled with ephemera from my writing life. It is a treasure chest of memories that includes everything from conference badges, event programs, and T-shirts from schools I’ve visited to letters and artwork I have...

When Fingers Are Fearless

My name is Shifa, spelled S-h-i-f-a, for most of my life pronounced shee-fa, sometimes said Shiff-a, but really in Arabic it’s she-faa’ with an emphasis at the end like a silent t, although usually I just stay quiet and nod however it’s said, because for some reason, my ears have...

Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson: Scenes from a Remarkable Marriage

I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of ­children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed ­Child­ren’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three...

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...

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: Brett Helquist's 2024 BGHB Nonfiction Award Speech

I’d like to thank the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for recognizing The Mona Lisa Vanishes; it is truly an honor. I’d also like to thank editor Annie Kelley, Katrina Damkoehler, and everyone at Random House Studio for trusting me to work on this book. Most of all, I want...

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: Nicholas Day's 2024 BGHB Nonfiction Award Speech

It’s wonderful to be here with all of you. I’d like to thank my agent, Brenda Bowen; my editor, Annie Kelley, and everyone at Random House Studio; and illustrator Brett Helquist, of course, who is a wizard. Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this honor. [Read...

Fungi Grow: Diana Sudyka's 2024 BGHB Nonfiction and Poetry Honor Speech

Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for honoring Fungi Grow. I have found the Horn Book to be a guiding voice and influence both in my time illustrating and writing picture books and as an avid reader of the genre. I have long admired Maria Gianferrari’s writing...
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