The 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners

The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards annually recognize excellence in children’s books and young adult books. All children’s and young adult books published in the United States between June 2008 and May 2009, regardless of the nationality of the author and illustrator, were eligible for the 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. Awards are given annually in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may also be recognized in each category.

Note: All of the quotations about the award winners are from the official 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards media release.

The 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards: Picture Book

Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Clarion, 2009. ISBN: 9780547074214) Compare prices.

”Margaret Mahy, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a two-time recipient of Boston Globe–Horn Book Award honor book citations, has written scores of novels, easy readers, and picture books. Bubble Trouble, a tongue-twisting tale about an airborne baby, marks the New Zealander’s second collaboration with English illustrator Polly Dunbar.”

The 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards: Fiction and Poetry

Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN: 9780061433016) Compare prices.

”Mr. Pratchett, perhaps best known for his raucous comic fantasies for children and adults, displays a philosophical bent with Nation, a young adult novel about two nineteenth-century children who create a new society from the ground up.”

The 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards: Nonfiction

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House, 2008. ISBN: 9780375836183) Compare prices.

”Candace Fleming’s dual biography of the President and Mrs. Lincoln employs the intricate scrapbook format that distinguished her earlier Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor.”

The 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Books

Picture Book
• Old Bear by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN: 9780061552052) Compare prices.
• Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli (Candlewick, 2009. ISBN: 9780763632410) Compare prices.

Fiction and Poetry
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick, 2008. ISBN: 9780763629502) Compare prices.
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN: 9780060530921) Compare prices.

Nonfiction
• The Way We Work by David Macaulay with Richard Walker, illustrated by David Macaulay (Lorraine/Houghton, 2008. ISBN: 9780618233786) Compare prices.
• Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick, 2009. ISBN: 9780763645021) Compare prices.