2009 Boston-Globe Horn Book Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2009 Boston-Globe Horn Book Award Winners were recently announced. The Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards honor excellence in children's and young adult books. Unlike many other 2009 children's book awards that recognize books published in 2008, these awards include books published in the United States between June 2008 and May 2009. The 2009 Awards include winners in three categories.

• Picture Book: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar
• Fiction and Poetry: Nation by Terry Pratchett
• Nonfiction: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming

Have you or your children read any of the winners of the 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards? If so, please click on "Comments" below and share your opinion of them. For other excellent books for kids and teens to enjoy this summer, see my Top 10 Summer Reading Lists For Kids and Teens: 2009.

(Cover art of HarperCollins)