Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards

Established in 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are awarded annually to outstanding titles published in the United States but written or illustrated by citizens of any country. Winners are now selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction & Poetry, and Non-fiction.

2011

Fiction - Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones.

Non-Fiction - The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin.

Picture Book - Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor.

2010

Fiction - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.

Non-Fiction - Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge.

Picture Book - I Know Here by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James.

2009

Fiction - Nation by Terry Pratchett.

Non-Fiction - The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming.

Picture Book - Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar.

2008

Fiction and Poetry - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.

Non-Fiction - The Wall by Peter Sis.

Picture Book - At Night by Jonathan Bean.

2007

Fiction and Poetry - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson.

Non-Fiction - The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr by Nicolas Debon.

Picture Book - Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.

2006

Fiction and Poetry - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.

Non-Fiction - If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty, illustrated by Steven Kellogg.

Picture Book - Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert.

2005

Fiction and Poetry - The Schwa Was Here by Neal Schusterman.

Non-Fiction - The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose.

Picture Book - Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey.

2004

Fiction and Poetry - The Fire-Eaters by David Almond.

Non-Fiction - An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy.

Picture Book - The Man Who Walked between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein.

2003

Fiction and Poetry - The Jamie and Angus Stories by Anne Fine.

Non-Fiction - Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman.

Picture Book - Big Momma Makes the World by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.

2002

Fiction and Poetry - Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury.

Non-Fiction - This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge.

Picture Book - "Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate by Bob Graham.

2001

Fiction and Poetry - Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson.

Non-Fiction - The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash.

Picture Book - Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelice, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.

2000

Fiction - The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley.

Non-Fiction - Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson.

Picture Book - Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson.

1999

Fiction - Holes by Louis Sachar.

Non-Fiction - The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins.

Picture Book - Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Nic Bishop.

1998

Fiction - The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez.

Non-Fiction - Leon’s Story by Leon Walter Tillage.

Picture Book - And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben.

1997

Fiction - The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano.

Non-Fiction - A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick.

Picture Book - The Adventures of Sparrowboy by Brian Pinkney.

1996

Fiction - Poppy by Avi.

Non-Fiction - Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story by Andrea Warren.

Picture Book - In the Rain with Baby Duck by Amy Hest, illustrated by Jill Barton.

1995

Fiction - Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones.

Non-Fiction - Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober.

Picture Book - John Henry by Julius Lester, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

1994

Fiction - Scooter by Vera Williams.

Non-Fiction - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman.

Picture Book - Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say.

1993

Fiction - Ajeemah and His Son by James Berry.

Non-Fiction - Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack.

Picture Book - The Fortune Tellers by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

1992

Fiction - Missing May by Cynthia Rylant.

Non-Fiction - Talking with Artists by Pat Cummings.

Picture Book - Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young.

1991

Fiction - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi.

Non-Fiction - Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant.

Picture Book - The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

1990

Fiction - Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.

Non-Fiction - The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz.

Picture Book - Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young.

1989

Fiction - The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox.

Non-Fiction - The Way Things Work by David Macaulay.

Picture Book - Shy Charles by Rosemary Wells.

1988

Fiction - The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor.

Non-Fiction - Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton.

Picture Book - The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder, illustrated by Allen Say.

1987

Fiction - Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry.

Non-Fiction - The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall.

Picture Book - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe.

1986

Fiction - In Summer Light by Zibby Oneal.

Non-Fiction - Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History by Peggy Thomson.

Picture Book - The Paper Crane by Molly Bang.

1985

Fiction - The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks.

Non-Fiction - Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg.

Picture Book - Mama Don't Allow by Thacher Hurd.

1984

Fiction - A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson.

Non-Fiction - The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz.

Picture Book - Jonah and the Great Fish by Warwick Hutton.

1983

Fiction - Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton.

Non-Fiction - Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis.

Picture Book - A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams.

1982

Fiction - Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park.

Non-Fiction - Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 by Aranka Siegal.

Picture Book - A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.

1981

Fiction - The Leaving by Lynn Hall.

Non-Fiction - The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky.

Picture Book - Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak.

1980

Fiction - Conrad's War by Andrew Davies.

Non-Fiction - Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario Salvadori.

Picture Book - The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg.

1979

Fiction - Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman.

Non-Fiction - The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian.

Picture Book - The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.

1978

Fiction - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.

Non-Fiction - Mischling, Second Degree by Ilse Koehn.

Picture Book - Anno's Journey by Mitsumasa Anno.

1977

Fiction - Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep.

Non-Fiction - Chance, Luck and Destiny by Peter Dickinson.

Picture Book - Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason by Wallace Tripp.

1976

Fiction - Unleaving by Jill Paton Walsh.

Non-Fiction - Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade by Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok.

Picture Book - Thirteen by Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner.

1975

Fiction - Transport 7-41-R by T. Degens.

Picture Book - Anno's Alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno.

1974

Fiction - M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamiltion.

Picture Book - Jambo Means Hello by Muriel Feelings, illustrated by Tom Feelings.

1973

Fiction - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper.

Picture Book - King Stork by Howard Pyle, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

1972

Fiction - Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff.

Picture Book - Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham.

1971

Fiction - A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron.

Picture Book - If I Built a Village . . . by Kazue Mizumura.

1970

Fiction - The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend.

Picture Book - Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats.

1969

Fiction - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Picture Book - The Adventures of Paddy Pork by John S. Goodall.

1968

Fiction - The Spring Rider by John Lawson.

Picture Book - Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent.

1967

Fiction - The Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard.

Picture Book - London Bridge Is Falling Down by Peter Spier.