2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners and Honorees Announced!
June 13, 2011
Read the announcement at Horn Book Editor Roger Sutton's blog, Read Roger.
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for children's books have gone to:
Fiction
Blink & Caution, by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick)
Nonfiction
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)
Picture Book
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor (Houghton)
Honor Books are:
Fiction
Chime, by Franny Billingsley (Dial)
Anna Hibiscus, by Atinuke (Kane Miller)
Nonfiction
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air, by Stewart Ross, illustrated by Stephen Biesty (Candlewick)
Can We Save the Tiger?, by Martin Jenkins, illustrated by Vicky White (Candlewick)
Picture Book
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night, by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton)
Pecan Pie Baby, by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Putnam)