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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...

Fungi Grow: Maria Gianferrari's 2024 BGHB Nonfiction and Poetry Honor Speech

I am overjoyed to be in the company of all of these fine book creators. Congrats to you all! Many thanks to both the Boston Globe and the Horn Book, and congratulations on the Horn Book’s hundredth anniversary! A heart-filled “thanks, mush” to judges Cathryn Mercier, Katrina Hedeen Eftekhari, and...

Remember Us: Jacqueline Woodson's 2024 BGHB Fiction Award Speech

So much changes in a lifetime. And so much stays the same. Happy one-hundredth birthday to The Horn Book. Prayers and blessings for a hundred more. And because of this milestone, I will start with gratitude for another centenarian. My beloved’s grandmother, Hilda, lived to be a hundred and seven,...

Rez Ball: Byron Graves's 2024 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech

When a writer is at a loss for words, you know something magical, meaningful, and surreal has occurred. When I heard Rez Ball had won a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, I had to pinch myself. As a kid from a small reservation in rural northern Minnesota, things of this nature...

The Blood Years: Elana K. Arnold's 2024 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech

The Blood Years is my first work of historical fiction. And it’s more than that: It’s also what I’ve made of the stories my Nana shared with me about being a Jewish teenager in Czernowitz, Romania, during WWII and the Holocaust. Though she told me many things, and I knew...

Do You Remember?: Sydney Smith's 2024 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech

I am deeply honored to receive this award. I feel profoundly grateful to the committee for recognizing this book. It has been an arduous journey that I would have thought impossible were it not for my editor, Neal Porter. At times like these, it feels appropriate to look closely at...

Ode to a Bad Day: Hyewon Yum's 2024 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech

My sincere thanks to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards committee for this honor. When the award was announced in June, the news of this recognition spread to Korea, and my picture was in the newspaper my parents read. So my father, who hadn’t really read a single picture book in...
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