Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
Encyclopedia
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were first presented by The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

 and Horn Book Magazine
Horn Book Magazine
The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston in 1924, is a bimonthly periodical about literature for children and young adults. It began life as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field, proprietresses of the country's first bookstore for children, The...

 in 1967. They are among the most prestigious honors in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 in the field of children’s
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 and young adult literature
Young adult literature
Young-adult fiction or young adult literature , also juvenile fiction, is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 14 to 21. The Young Adult Library Services of the American Library Association defines a young adult as "someone between the...

. Awards are given in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction.

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award recipients

Year Category Book Author Illustrator
2011 Picture Book Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes Salley Mavor
2011 Fiction and Poetry Blink & Caution Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...

2011 Nonfiction The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery Steve Sheinkin
2010 Picture Book I Know Here Laurel Croza Matt James
2010 Fiction and Poetry When You Reach Me
When You Reach Me
When You Reach Me is a Newbery Medal-winning science fiction and mystery novel by Rebecca Stead, published in 2009. It takes place in the Upper West Side in New York City during 1979 and follows the protagonist, Miranda. She receives a strange note asking her to record future events and write down...

Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead is an American author who writes books for children and young adults. She won the 2010 Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature for her second novel, When You Reach Me.-Childhood and education:Born and raised in New York City, Stead enjoyed her...

2010 Nonfiction Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary Elizabeth Partridge
2009 Picture Book Bubble Trouble Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy ONZ is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural...

Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar is an author-illustrator. Dunbar is known for her self-illustrated books Dog Blue, Flyaway Katie and Penguin. She is the daughter of children's book writer Joyce Dunbar, whom she worked with to publish the picture book Shoe Baby...

2009 Fiction and Poetry Nation
Nation (novel)
Nation is a Terry Pratchett novel, published in the UK on September 11, 2008. It is the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb . Nation is in an alternate history of our world in the 1860s. The book received recognition as a Michael L...

Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

2009 Nonfiction The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary Candace Fleming
2008 Picture Book At Night Jonathan Bean
Jonathan Bean
Jonathan Dobing Bean is an English cricketer. Bean is a right-handed batsman who occasionally fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Altrincham, Lancashire....

Jonathan Bean
Jonathan Bean
Jonathan Dobing Bean is an English cricketer. Bean is a right-handed batsman who occasionally fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Altrincham, Lancashire....

2008 Fiction and Poetry The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie. It is told in the first-person, from the viewpoint of Native American teenager and budding cartoonist Arnold Spirit, Jr....

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film...

Ellen Forney
2008 Nonfiction The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Peter Sís
Peter Sis
Peter Sís is an award-winning children's book writer and illustrator. Sís attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London...

Peter Sís
Peter Sis
Peter Sís is an award-winning children's book writer and illustrator. Sís attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London...

2007 Picture Book Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Laura Vaccaro Seeger is an American author and artist of children's books.Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and the recipient of a 2008 Caldecott Honor, a 2008 Geisel Honor, a 2007 New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, and the 2007 Boston Globe-Horn...

Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Laura Vaccaro Seeger is an American author and artist of children's books.Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and the recipient of a 2008 Caldecott Honor, a 2008 Geisel Honor, a 2007 New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, and the 2007 Boston Globe-Horn...

2007 Fiction and Poetry The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party is a historical novel for young readers written by M.T. Anderson. In November 2006, it won The National Book Award for Young People. It was also named a Printz Honor book in 2007...

M.T. Anderson
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Matthew Tobin Anderson, known as M. T. Anderson, is an American author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.-Biography:...

 
2007 Nonfiction The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr Nicolas Debon Nicolas Debon
2006 Picture Book Leaf Man Lois Ehlert
Lois Ehlert
Lois Ehlert is an author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo . She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.-Background:...

Lois Ehlert
Lois Ehlert
Lois Ehlert is an author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo . She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.-Background:...

2006 Fiction and Poetry The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a 2006 novel by Kate DiCamillo. Following the life of a china rabbit, the book won the 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in Fiction.-Plot:...

Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American children's author. She is known for the Newbery Medal-winning book The Tale of Despereaux, the Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, and the Mercy Watson series, plus numerous other award-winning and honored books.-Early life:Born in...

Bagram Ibatoulline
2006 Nonfiction If You Decide to Go to the Moon Faith McNulty
Faith McNulty
Faith McNulty was an American non-fiction author, probably best-known for her 1980 book The Burning Bed. She was born "Faith Corrigan" in New York City, the daughter of a judge. Young Faith attended Barnard College for one year, then attended Rhode Island State College...

Steven Kellogg
Steven Kellogg
Steven Kellogg is an author and illustrator who has contributed over 90 books for children. He is best known for writing books about animals, for which he credits his grandmother ....

2005 Fiction and Poetry The Schwa Was Here
The Schwa Was Here
The Schwa Was Here is a young adult novel by Neal Shusterman. Published by Penguin Books and Dutton Books in 2004. It is about an eighth-grader's friendship with another student named Calvin Schwa, who is capable of seemingly not being noticed by the people around him.The book received critical...

Neal Schusterman  
2005 Nonfiction The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Phillip Hoose
Phillip Hoose
Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters...

 
2005 Picture Book Traction Man Is Here! Mini Grey
Mini Grey
Mini Grey is an award-winning British children's author and illustrator.Her unusual forename is a consequence of her being born in a Mini car.-As author and illustrator:*Egg Drop *The Pea and the Princess *Biscuit Bear...

Mini Grey
Mini Grey
Mini Grey is an award-winning British children's author and illustrator.Her unusual forename is a consequence of her being born in a Mini car.-As author and illustrator:*Egg Drop *The Pea and the Princess *Biscuit Bear...

2004 Fiction and Poetry The Fire-Eaters
The Fire-Eaters
The Fire-Eaters is a children's novel by David Almond, published in 2003. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award, as well as being shortlisted for both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal....

David Almond
David Almond
David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...

 
2004 Nonfiction An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Jim Murphy
Jim Murphy
James Francis "Jim" Murphy is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire....

 
2004 Picture Book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein. Published in 2003, the book tells the true story of Philippe Petit, a man who walked between the twin towers of the World Trade Center on a tightrope...

Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein, born November 24, 1935 in Los Angeles, California is an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books....

Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein, born November 24, 1935 in Los Angeles, California is an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books....

2003 Fiction and Poetry The Jamie and Angus Stories Anne Fine
Anne Fine
Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...

Penny Dale
2003 Nonfiction Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Born in Tel Aviv, Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4. She attended the High School of Music and Art, now LaGuardia High School....

 
2003 Picture Book Big Momma Makes the World Phyllis Root Helen Oxenbury
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury is an award-winning illustrator of children's picture books. She lives with her husband, the illustrator John Burningham, in north London.- Background :...

2002 Fiction and Poetry Lord of the Deep Graham Salisbury
Graham Salisbury
Graham Salisbury is an American author. He has written many books including Under the Blood Red Sun, his most famous novel. He lives with his family in Lake Oswego, Oregon....

 
2002 Nonfiction This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie Elizabeth Partridge  
2002 Picture Book “Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate Bob Graham
Bob Graham (author / illustrator)
Bob Graham is an Australian children's author and illustrator. His books include Max, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award, Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child, which won the Kate Greenaway Medal, and "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.-Awards and...

Bob Graham
Bob Graham (author / illustrator)
Bob Graham is an Australian children's author and illustrator. His books include Max, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award, Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child, which won the Kate Greenaway Medal, and "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.-Awards and...

2001 Fiction and Poetry Carver: A Life in Poems Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and children's book author. She is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks.-Early life:...

 
2001 Nonfiction The Longitude Prize Joan Dash Dusan Petricic
2001 Picture Book Cold Feet Cynthia DeFelice
Cynthia DeFelice
Cynthia DeFelice is an American children's book author. She has written 16 novels, and 12 picture books for young readers. Her intended audience for her novels is children at the reading level of ages nine to twelve....

Robert Andrew Parker
2000 Fiction The Folk Keeper Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley is the author of two award-winning children's fantasy novels, Well Wished and The Folk Keeper, as well as the newly released novel Chime and the picture book Big Bad Bunny. She lives in Illinois....

 
2000 Nonfiction Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado Marc Aronson  
2000 Picture Book Henry Hikes to Fitchburg D. B. Johnson D. B. Johnson
1999 Fiction Holes
Holes (novel)
Holes is a Newbery Medal-winning novel by Louis Sachar. It was adapted into a screenplay for the 2003 film by Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Sachar published Small Steps, a companion novel featuring one of the characters from Holes.-Plot:...

Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes, for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal...

 
1999 Nonfiction The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest Steve Jenkins
Steve Jenkins
Stephen Robert "Steve" Jenkins is a Wales international footballer. A full-back, he won 16 Welsh caps between 1995 and 2001....

 
1999 Picture Book Red-Eyed Tree Frog Joy Cowley
Joy Cowley
Cassia "Joy" Cowley, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand author of novels, short stories, and children's fiction.Her first novel, Nest in a Fallen Tree , was converted into the 1971 film The Night Digger by Roald Dahl...

Nic Bishop
1999 Special Citation Tibet: Through the Red Box Peter Sis
Peter Sis
Peter Sís is an award-winning children's book writer and illustrator. Sís attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London...

 
1998 Fiction The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child Francisco Jiménez  
1998 Nonfiction Leon’s Story Leon Walter Tillage
Leon Walter Tillage
Leon Walter Tillage is the author of Leon's Story, an account of the effects of Jim Crow laws on the lives of African Americans during the 1930s and 1940s....

Susan L. Roth
1998 Picture Book And If the Moon Could Talk Kate Banks Georg Hallensleben
1997 Fiction The Friends Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano  
1997 Nonfiction A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick
Walter Wick
Walter Wick is an American artist and photographer best known for the elaborate images in two series of publications, the I Spy and the Can You See What I See? books, which were published by Scholastic Books....

Walter Wick
Walter Wick
Walter Wick is an American artist and photographer best known for the elaborate images in two series of publications, the I Spy and the Can You See What I See? books, which were published by Scholastic Books....

1997 Picture Book The Adventures of Sparrowboy Brian Pinkney  
1996 Fiction Poppy Avi Brian Floca
Brian Floca
Brian Floca is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for illustrating books by the award-winning children’s author Avi and for nonfiction picture books.- Biography :Brian was born and raised in Temple, Texas...

1996 Nonfiction Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story Andrea Warren  
1996 Picture Book In the Rain with Baby Duck Amy Hest Jill Barton
1995 Fiction Some of the Kinder Planets Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...

 
1995 Nonfiction Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution Natalie S. Bober  
1995 Picture Book John Henry Julius Lester
Julius Lester
Julius Lester is an American author of books for children and adults, and taught for 32 years at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also a photographer, as well as a musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs.-Early life and family:Born on January 27, 1939, in...

Jerry Pinkney
Jerry Pinkney
Jerry Pinkney is an American illustrator of children’s books, and winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal. He has received a Caldecott Honor citation five times, the Coretta Scott King Award five times, four New York Times Best Illustrated Awards , four Gold and four Silver medals from the Society of...

1994 Fiction Scooter Vera Williams
Vera Williams
Vera B. Williams is an American children's writer and illustrator. Her best known work, A Chair for My Mother, has won multiple awards and was featured on the children's television show Reading Rainbow. She was the U.S...

 
1994 Nonfiction Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman is a biographer and author of nearly 50 books for young people. He is most notable for receiving the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography. In 1998, he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his lifelong contribution to children's literature. He currently...

 
1994 Picture Book Grandfather's Journey
Grandfather's Journey
Grandfather's Journey is a book by Allen Say. Released by Houghton Mifflin, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1994. The story is based on Say's grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again.-Plot:...

Allen Say
Allen Say
Allen Say is an Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal. This story is autobiographical, and relates to Say's constant...

Allen Say
Allen Say
Allen Say is an Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal. This story is autobiographical, and relates to Say's constant...

1993 Fiction Ajeemah and His Son James Berry  
1993 Nonfiction Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack  
1993 Picture Book The Fortune Tellers Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books...

Trina Schart Hyman
Trina Schart Hyman
Trina Schart Hyman was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends, and was the recipient of three Caldecott Honors and one Caldecott Medal....

1992 Fiction Missing May
Missing May
Missing May is a children's book, the recipient of the 1993 Newbery Medal. It was written by Cynthia Rylant, who has written over 60 children's books such as The Islander.-Plot:...

Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant is an American author. She has written more than 100 children's books in English and Spanish. With the divorce of her parents when she was four and living without running water and electricity she became an author including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry...

 
1992 Nonfiction Talking with Artists Pat Cummings
Pat Cummings
Pat Cummings is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6-foot-9½ center with an accurate shooting touch, Cummings spent the most productive stretch of his 12-year career with the New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, averaging better than 12 points and 8 rebounds for...

 
1992 Picture Book Seven Blind Mice Ed Young
Ed Young (illustrator)
Ed Young is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books.-Biography:...

Ed Young
Ed Young (illustrator)
Ed Young is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books.-Biography:...

1991 Fiction The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a young adult historical fiction novel by the American author Avi that was published in 1990. It takes place during the transatlantic crossing of a ship from England to America in the 19th century. The book chronicles the evolution of the title character...

Avi  
1991 Nonfiction Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant is an American author. She has written more than 100 children's books in English and Spanish. With the divorce of her parents when she was four and living without running water and electricity she became an author including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry...

Barry Moser
Barry Moser
Barry Moser is a renowned artist, most famous as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature.Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940, Moser studied at the Baylor School, Auburn University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and did graduate work at the University of...

1991 Picture Book The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...

Leo and Diane Dillon
Leo and Diane Dillon
Leo and Diane Dillon are an American husband and wife team of illustrators. Among their awards are two consecutive Caldecott Medals for the children's books Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions....

1990 Fiction Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee is a young adult fiction novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphaned boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills...

Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli is an author of children's novels on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer....

 
1990 Nonfiction The Great Little Madison Jean Fritz
Jean Fritz
Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer.-Life:Jean Fritz was born to American missionaries in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was thirteen. She was an only child . Growing up, Fritz kept a journal about her days in China with Lin Nai-Nai...

 
1990 Picture Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Ed Young. Published in 1989, the book is a version of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Young won the 1990 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations....

Ed Young
Ed Young (illustrator)
Ed Young is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books.-Biography:...

Ed Young
Ed Young (illustrator)
Ed Young is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books.-Biography:...

1990 Special Citation Valentine and Orson Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Nancy Ekholm Burkert is an American artist and illustrator, first known for her 1961 illustrated book, the original edition of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl...

 
1989 Fiction The Village by the Sea Paula Fox
Paula Fox
Paula Fox is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More recently, A Portrait of Ivan won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2008.Her...

 
1989 Nonfiction The Way Things Work
The Way Things Work
The Way Things Work is a book by David Macaulay. It is intended to serve as an entertaining introduction to everyday machines. It covers machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions...

David Macaulay
David Macaulay
David Macaulay is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.- Biography :...

David Macaulay
David Macaulay
David Macaulay is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.- Biography :...

1989 Picture Book Shy Charles Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells is the author of a number of popular children's books, most notably the Max and Ruby series which follows the everyday adventures of sibling bunnies—curious three year old Max and bossy seven year old Ruby. She gets the inspiration for Max and Ruby from her three daughters and the...

Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells is the author of a number of popular children's books, most notably the Max and Ruby series which follows the everyday adventures of sibling bunnies—curious three year old Max and bossy seven year old Ruby. She gets the inspiration for Max and Ruby from her three daughters and the...

1988 Fiction The Friendship Mildred D. Taylor
Mildred D. Taylor
Mildred DeLois Taylor is an African American author, known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South....

Max Ginsburg
1988 Nonfiction Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Esther Hamilton was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal....

 
1988 Picture Book The Boy of the Three-Year Nap Dianne Snyder Allen Say
Allen Say
Allen Say is an Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal. This story is autobiographical, and relates to Say's constant...

1987 Fiction Rabble Starkey
Rabble Starkey
Rabble Starkey is a novel by Lois Lowry. It won the 1987 Josette Frank Award.In the novel, 12-year-old Rabble Starkey's mother is hired by Mrs. Bigelow to look after her children while she's in the hospital...

Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s...

 
1987 Nonfiction The Pilgrims of Plimoth Marcia Sewall  
1987 Picture Book Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe
John Steptoe
John Steptoe is an award winning author and illustrator for children’s books dealing with aspects of the African American experience....

John Steptoe
John Steptoe
John Steptoe is an award winning author and illustrator for children’s books dealing with aspects of the African American experience....

1986 Fiction In Summer Light Zibby Oneal  
1986 Nonfiction Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur Peggy Thomson  
1986 Picture Book The Paper Crane Molly Bang
Molly Bang
Molly Bang is an American illustrator, born in Princeton, New Jersey. She lives in California, after having lived for some time in Massachusetts.Bang began writing children's books after a failed stint as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun...

Molly Bang
Molly Bang
Molly Bang is an American illustrator, born in Princeton, New Jersey. She lives in California, after having lived for some time in Massachusetts.Bang began writing children's books after a failed stint as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun...

1985 Fiction The Moves Make the Man Bruce Brooks
Bruce Brooks
Bruce Brooks is an American author of young adult and children's literature. - Background :Brooks, born in Richmond, Virginia, lived most of his young life in North Carolina as a result of parental divorce. Brooks credits moving around multiple times between the two locations with making him a...

 
1985 Nonfiction Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun Rhoda Blumberg  
1985 Picture Book Mama Don't Allow Thacher Hurd
Thacher Hurd
John Thacher Hurd is the artist and author of children's picture books including Mama Don't Allow and Art Dog.- Biography :Thacher Hurd is the son of children's book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd. After attending the California College of Arts and Crafts, Thacher Hurd turned his...

Thacher Hurd
Thacher Hurd
John Thacher Hurd is the artist and author of children's picture books including Mama Don't Allow and Art Dog.- Biography :Thacher Hurd is the son of children's book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd. After attending the California College of Arts and Crafts, Thacher Hurd turned his...

1985 Special Citation 1,2,3 Tana Hoban
Tana Hoban
Tana Hoban was an author and photographer.She created children's books out of photos and thereby taught educational concepts such as signs and symbols, the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, animals, opposites, sizes and prepositions. Her early books were in black-and-white, but later books are in...

Tana Hoban
Tana Hoban
Tana Hoban was an author and photographer.She created children's books out of photos and thereby taught educational concepts such as signs and symbols, the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, animals, opposites, sizes and prepositions. Her early books were in black-and-white, but later books are in...

1984 Fiction A Little Fear Patricia Wrightson
Patricia Wrightson
Patricia Wrightson was an Australian author who wrote a number of highly regarded and influential children's books. Her reputation came to rest largely on her magic realist titles. Her books, including the widely praised The Nargun and The Stars , were among the first Australian books for children...

 
1984 Nonfiction The Double Life of Pocahontas Jean Fritz
Jean Fritz
Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer.-Life:Jean Fritz was born to American missionaries in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was thirteen. She was an only child . Growing up, Fritz kept a journal about her days in China with Lin Nai-Nai...

Ed Young
Ed Young (illustrator)
Ed Young is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books.-Biography:...

1984 Picture Book Jonah and the Great Fish Warwick Hutton
Warwick Hutton
Warwick Hutton was an English painter, glass engraver, illustrator, and children's author.He is most widely known for elegant pen and ink and watercolor illustrations for children’s books...

Warwick Hutton
Warwick Hutton
Warwick Hutton was an English painter, glass engraver, illustrator, and children's author.He is most widely known for elegant pen and ink and watercolor illustrations for children’s books...

1983 Fiction Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Esther Hamilton was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal....

 
1983 Nonfiction Behind Barbed Wire Daniel S. Davis  
1983 Picture Book A Chair for My Mother Vera B. Williams Vera B. Williams
1982 Fiction Playing Beatie Bow Ruth Park
Ruth Park
Ruth Park, AM was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow , and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat , which also spawned a book series .-Personal history:Park was born in...

 
1982 Nonfiction Upon the Head of the Goat Aranka Siegal
Aranka Siegal
Aranka Siegal is a writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in 1982...

 
1982 Picture Book A Visit to William Blake's Inn
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers is a book by Nancy Willard that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1982. It is also the only book to have won both the Newbery Award and the Caldecott Honor Award...

Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn...

Alice and Martin Provensen
Alice and Martin Provensen
Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen were an American author-illustrator team who created children's books....

1981 Fiction The Leaving Lynn Hall
Lynn Hall
Lynn Hall is a historic restaurant and related residence located in Liberty Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a sprawling Modernist Movement style structure begun in 1935 and inspired by the architectural style of Frank Lloyd Wright...

 
1981 Nonfiction The Weaver's Gift Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky is an American author whose work includes several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.-Biography:...

Christopher G. Knight
1981 Picture Book Outside Over There Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.-Early life:...

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.-Early life:...

1980 Fiction Conrad's War Andrew Davies
Andrew Davies (writer)
Andrew Wynford Davies is a British author and screenwriter. He was made a Fellow of BAFTA in 2002.-Education and early career:...

 
1980 Nonfiction Building: The Fight Against Gravity Mario Salvadori
Mario Salvadori
Mario G. Salvadori was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University.-Early life:...

Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus
1980 Picture Book The Garden of Abdul Gasazi Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji and The Polar Express , both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures...

Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji and The Polar Express , both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures...

1980 Special Citation Graham Oakley's Magical Changes Graham Oakley
Graham Oakley
Graham Oakley is an English author and illustrator. He was born on August 27, 1929 to Thomas and Flora Oakley in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He currently lives in Lyme Regis, Dorset and was listed in the 2008 Modern Classics edition of The Church Mice as 'mostly retired'.-Art career:In 1950,...

 
1979 Fiction Humbug Mountain Sid Fleischman
Sid Fleischman
Albert Sidney Fleischman , pen name Sid Fleischman, was a Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and books on magic. His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history...

 
1979 Nonfiction The Road from Home David Kherdian  
1979 Picture Book The Snowman Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children...

Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children...

1978 Fiction The Westing Game
The Westing Game
The Westing Game is a 1979 Newbery Medal winning novel by Ellen Raskin. It has been adapted into a movie, released under both the names The Westing Game and Get a Clue...

Ellen Raskin
Ellen Raskin
Ellen Ermingard Raskin was an American writer, illustrator and fashion designer. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up during the Great Depression. She was educated at the University of Wisconsin at Madison...

 
1978 Nonfiction Mischling, Second Degree Ilse Koehn  
1978 Picture Book Anno's Journey Mitsumasa Anno
Mitsumasa Anno
is a Japanese author and illustrator of children's books.-Background:Anno was born in 1926 in Japan, and grew up in the small town of Tsuwano. As a student at a regional high school, he studied art, drawing, and the writings of Hermann Hesse. During World War II, Anno was drafted into the...

Mitsumasa Anno
Mitsumasa Anno
is a Japanese author and illustrator of children's books.-Background:Anno was born in 1926 in Japan, and grew up in the small town of Tsuwano. As a student at a regional high school, he studied art, drawing, and the writings of Hermann Hesse. During World War II, Anno was drafted into the...

1977 Fiction Child of the Owl Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep
-Background:Chinese-American, Yep was born in San Francisco, California to Yep Gim Lew and Franche. His older brother, Thomas named him after studying a particular saint in a multicultural neighborhood that consisted of mostly African Americans. Growing up, he often felt torn between both...

 
1977 Nonfiction Chance, Luck and Destiny Peter Dickinson
Peter Dickinson
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...

 
1977 Picture Book Granfa' Grig Had a Pig Wallace Tripp
Wallace Tripp
Wallace Whitney Tripp is an American illustrator, anthologist and author. He is known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor. He is one of several illustrators of the Amelia Bedelia series of children's stories...

Wallace Tripp
Wallace Tripp
Wallace Whitney Tripp is an American illustrator, anthologist and author. He is known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor. He is one of several illustrators of the Amelia Bedelia series of children's stories...

1977 Special Citation The Changing City and The Changing Countryside Jorg Mueller  
1976 Fiction Unleaving Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL is an English novelist and children's writer.Born as Gillian Bliss and educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London, she read English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford...

 
1976 Nonfiction Voyaging to Cathay Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok  
1976 Picture Book Thirteen Remy Charlip
Remy Charlip
Abraham Remy' Charlip is an American artist, writer, choreographer, theatre director, designer and teacher.-Career:He studied art at Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan and fine arts at Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 1949.In the 1960s Charlip created a unique form of...

Jerry Joyner
1975 Fiction Transport 7-41-R T. Degens  
1975 Picture Book Anno's Alphabet Mitsumasa Anno
Mitsumasa Anno
is a Japanese author and illustrator of children's books.-Background:Anno was born in 1926 in Japan, and grew up in the small town of Tsuwano. As a student at a regional high school, he studied art, drawing, and the writings of Hermann Hesse. During World War II, Anno was drafted into the...

Mitsumasa Anno
Mitsumasa Anno
is a Japanese author and illustrator of children's books.-Background:Anno was born in 1926 in Japan, and grew up in the small town of Tsuwano. As a student at a regional high school, he studied art, drawing, and the writings of Hermann Hesse. During World War II, Anno was drafted into the...

1974 Fiction M. C. Higgins, the Great
M. C. Higgins, the Great
M. C. Higgins, the Great is a book by Virginia Hamilton that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1975. It also won the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the only book to do that. It is a coming of age novel; it covers three eventful...

Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Esther Hamilton was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal....

 
1974 Picture Book Jambo Means Hello Muriel Feelings Tom Feelings
Tom Feelings
Tom Feelings was an artist and illustrator, author, teacher and activist.Through his works, he framed the African-American experience. His most famous book is The Middle Passage. Feelings was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.. He attended the School of the Visual Arts and later lived in Ghana and...

1973 Fiction The Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper
Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...

 
1973 Picture Book King Stork Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...

Trina Schart Hyman
Trina Schart Hyman
Trina Schart Hyman was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends, and was the recipient of three Caldecott Honors and one Caldecott Medal....

1972 Fiction Tristan and Iseult Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff CBE was a British novelist, and writer for children, best known as a writer of historical fiction and children's literature. Although she was primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults; Sutcliff herself once commented that she wrote...

 
1972 Picture Book Mr. Gumpy's Outing John Burningham
John Burningham
-Biography:Burningham was born April 27, 1936 in Farnham, Surrey, England to Charles and Jessie Burningham. After primary school, he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit in 1953. When he was 20, he attended the Central School of Art and graduated in 1959...

John Burningham
John Burningham
-Biography:Burningham was born April 27, 1936 in Farnham, Surrey, England to Charles and Jessie Burningham. After primary school, he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit in 1953. When he was 20, he attended the Central School of Art and graduated in 1959...

1971 Fiction A Room Made of Windows Eleanor Cameron
Eleanor Cameron
Eleanor Frances Butler Cameron was a Canadian children's author. Her first book was The Unheard Music, published in 1950.-Life:...

 
1971 Picture Book If I Built a Village . . . Kazue Mizumura Kazue Mizumura
1970 Fiction The Intruder John Rowe Townsend
John Rowe Townsend
John Rowe Townsend is a British children's author and academic. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award and the best-known academic work is Written for Children: An Outline of English Language Children's Literature , the definitive work of its time on the...

 
1970 Picture Book Hi, Cat! Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats , Caldecott-winning author of The Snowy Day, was one of the most important children's literature authors and illustrators of the 20th Century....

Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats , Caldecott-winning author of The Snowy Day, was one of the most important children's literature authors and illustrators of the 20th Century....

1969 Fiction A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, is the first of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in the fantasy world archipelago of Earthsea depicting the adventures of a budding young wizard named Ged...

Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...

 
1969 Picture Book The Adventures of Paddy Pork John S. Goodall
John S. Goodall
John Strickland Goodall was a British artist and illustrator best known for his wordless picture adventures, although his output has included more conventional...

John S. Goodall
John S. Goodall
John Strickland Goodall was a British artist and illustrator best known for his wordless picture adventures, although his output has included more conventional...

1968 Fiction The Spring Rider John Lawson (children's author)
John Lawson (children's author)
John S. “Jack” Lawson was the author of several children’s books. He was born in New York City to John and Nancy Sommers Lawson. He graduated from Exeter and Harvard College. After serving in World War II he travelled through the mountains of Virginia, where he settled on a farm...

 
1968 Picture Book Tikki Tikki Tembo Arlene Mosel
Arlene Mosel
Arlene Tichy Mosel was an American author of children's literature who was best-known for her illustrated books Tikki Tikki Tembo, a retelling of a Chinese folk tale, and the award-winning The Funny Little Woman, which was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1973.She was born...

Blair Lent
Blair Lent
Blair Lent was an American author and illustrator of mostly Chinese-themed books, including the popular 1968 children's book Tikki Tikki Tembo. In 1973 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations of The Funny Little Woman, by Arlene Mosel. He also illustrated the book House of Stairs...

1967 Fiction The Little Fishes Erik Christian Haugaard
Erik Christian Haugaard
Erik Christian Haugaard was a Danish born author principally of children's books.-Biography:Erik Christian Haugaard was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He came to the United States in 1940 after fleeing the Nazi invasion of Denmark, and later served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World...

 
1967 Picture Book London Bridge Is Falling Down Peter Spier
Peter Spier
Peter Spier is a Dutch-born American author and illustrator who has published more than thirty children's books.-Biographical information:...

Peter Spier
Peter Spier
Peter Spier is a Dutch-born American author and illustrator who has published more than thirty children's books.-Biographical information:...


Recipients of multiple Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards

Mitsumasa Anno
Mitsumasa Anno
is a Japanese author and illustrator of children's books.-Background:Anno was born in 1926 in Japan, and grew up in the small town of Tsuwano. As a student at a regional high school, he studied art, drawing, and the writings of Hermann Hesse. During World War II, Anno was drafted into the...

, Avi, Jean Fritz
Jean Fritz
Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer.-Life:Jean Fritz was born to American missionaries in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was thirteen. She was an only child . Growing up, Fritz kept a journal about her days in China with Lin Nai-Nai...

, Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant is an American author. She has written more than 100 children's books in English and Spanish. With the divorce of her parents when she was four and living without running water and electricity she became an author including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry...

, Allen Say
Allen Say
Allen Say is an Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal. This story is autobiographical, and relates to Say's constant...

 and Vera Williams
Vera Williams
Vera B. Williams is an American children's writer and illustrator. Her best known work, A Chair for My Mother, has won multiple awards and was featured on the children's television show Reading Rainbow. She was the U.S...

 have all been the recipient of two Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Esther Hamilton was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal....

 and Ed Young
Ed Young (illustrator)
Ed Young is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books.-Biography:...

have each been awarded three.

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