Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
Winners

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

Section Title: Winners
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Year	Category	Book	Writer	Illustrator

2018	Picture Book	They Say Blue	Jillian Tamaki	Jillian Tamaki

2018	Fiction and Poetry	The Poet X	Elizabeth Acevedo

2018	Nonfiction	Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide	Isabel Quintero	Zeke Peña

2017	Picture Book	Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life	Ashley Bryan	Ashley Bryan

2017	Fiction	The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas

2017	Nonfiction	Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers	Deborah Heiligman

2016	Picture Book	Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph	Roxane Orgill

2016	Fiction	The Lie Tree	Frances Hardinge

2016	Nonfiction	Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War	Steve Sheinkin

2015	Picture Book	The Farmer and the Clown	Marla Frazee

2015	Fiction	Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms	Katherine Rundell

2015	Nonfiction	The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia	Candace Fleming

2014	Picture Book	Mr. Tiger Goes Wild	Peter Brown	Peter Brown

2014	Fiction	Grasshopper Jungle	Andrew A. Smith

2014	Nonfiction	The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights	Steve Sheinkin

2013	Picture Book	Open This Little Book	Jesse Klausmeier	Suzy Lee

2013	Picture Book	Building Our House	Jonathan Bean	Jonathan Bean

2013	Fiction	Eleanor & Park	Rainbow Rowell

2013	Nonfiction	Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin	Robert Byrd	Robert Byrd

2012	Picture Book	Extra Yarn	Mac Barnett	Jon Klassen

2012	Fiction	No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller	Vaunda Micheaux Nelson	R. Gregory Christie

2012	Nonfiction	Chuck Close: Face Book	Chuck Close with others	Chuck Close

2011	Picture Book	Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes	Salley Mavor	Salley Mavor

2011	Fiction and Poetry	Blink & Caution	Tim Wynne-Jones

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	Rebecca Stead

2010	Nonfiction	Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary	Elizabeth Partridge

2009	Picture Book	Bubble Trouble	Margaret Mahy	Polly Dunbar

2009	Fiction and Poetry	Nation	Terry Pratchett

2009	Nonfiction	The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary	Candace Fleming

2008	Picture Book	At Night	Jonathan Bean	Jonathan Bean

2008	Fiction and Poetry	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Sherman Alexie	Ellen Forney

2008	Nonfiction	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain	Peter Sís	Peter Sís

2007	Picture Book	Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories	Laura Vaccaro Seeger	Laura Vaccaro Seeger

2007	Fiction and Poetry	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party	M.T. Anderson

2007	Nonfiction	The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr	Nicolas Debon	Nicolas Debon

2006	Picture Book	Leaf Man	Lois Ehlert	Lois Ehlert

2006	Fiction and Poetry	The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane	Kate DiCamillo	Bagram Ibatoulline

2006	Nonfiction	If You Decide to Go to the Moon	Faith McNulty	Steven Kellogg

2005	Fiction and Poetry	The Schwa Was Here	Neal Shusterman

2005	Nonfiction	The Race to Save the Lord God Bird	Phillip Hoose

2005	Picture Book	Traction Man Is Here!	Mini Grey	Mini Grey

2004	Fiction and Poetry	The Fire-Eaters	David Almond

2004	Nonfiction	An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793	Jim Murphy

2004	Picture Book	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Mordicai Gerstein	Mordicai Gerstein

2003	Fiction and Poetry	The Jamie and Angus Stories	Anne Fine	Penny Dale

2003	Nonfiction	Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey	Maira Kalman

2003	Picture Book	Big Momma Makes the World	Phyllis Root	Helen Oxenbury

2002	Fiction and Poetry	Lord of the Deep	Graham Salisbury

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

2001	Fiction and Poetry	Carver: A Life in Poems	Marilyn Nelson

2001	Nonfiction	The Longitude Prize	Joan Dash	Dušan Petričić

2001	Picture Book	Cold Feet	Cynthia DeFelice	Robert Andrew Parker

2000	Fiction	The Folk Keeper	Franny Billingsley

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	Louis Sachar

1999	Nonfiction	The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest	Steve Jenkins

1999	Picture Book	Red-Eyed Tree Frog	Joy Cowley	Nic Bishop

1999	Special Citation	Tibet: Through the Red Box	Peter Sís

1998	Fiction	The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child	Francisco Jiménez

1998	Nonfiction	Leon’s Story	Leon Walter Tillage	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

1997	Picture Book	The Adventures of Sparrowboy	Brian Pinkney

1996	Fiction	Poppy	Avi	Brian Floca

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

1995	Nonfiction	Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution	Natalie S. Bober

1995	Picture Book	John Henry	Julius Lester	Jerry Pinkney

1994	Fiction	Scooter	Vera B. Williams

1994	Nonfiction	Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery	Russell Freedman

1994	Picture Book	Grandfather's Journey	Allen Say	Allen Say

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	Trina Schart Hyman

1992	Fiction	Missing May	Cynthia Rylant

1992	Nonfiction	Talking with Artists	Pat Cummings

1992	Picture Book	Seven Blind Mice	Ed Young	Ed Young

1991	Fiction	The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Avi

1991	Nonfiction	Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds	Cynthia Rylant	Barry Moser

1991	Picture Book	The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks	Katherine Paterson	Leo and Diane Dillon

1990	Fiction	Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli

1990	Nonfiction	The Great Little Madison	Jean Fritz

1990	Picture Book	Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China	Ed Young	Ed Young

1990	Special Citation	Valentine and Orson	Nancy Ekholm Burkert

1989	Fiction	The Village by the Sea	Paula Fox

1989	Nonfiction	The Way Things Work	David Macaulay	David Macaulay

1989	Picture Book	Shy Charles	Rosemary Wells	Rosemary Wells

1988	Fiction	The Friendship	Mildred D. Taylor	Max Ginsburg

1988	Nonfiction	Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave	Virginia Hamilton

1988	Picture Book	The Boy of the Three-Year Nap	Dianne Snyder	Allen Say

1987	Fiction	Rabble Starkey	Lois Lowry

1987	Nonfiction	The Pilgrims of Plimoth	Marcia Sewall

1987	Picture Book	Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters	John Steptoe	John Steptoe

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

1985	Fiction	The Moves Make the Man	Bruce Brooks

1985	Nonfiction	Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun	Rhoda Blumberg

1985	Picture Book	Mama Don't Allow	Thacher Hurd	Thacher Hurd

1985	Special Citation	1,2,3	Tana Hoban	Tana Hoban

1984	Fiction	A Little Fear	Patricia Wrightson

1984	Nonfiction	The Double Life of Pocahontas	Jean Fritz	Ed Young

1984	Picture Book	Jonah and the Great Fish	Warwick Hutton	Warwick Hutton

1983	Fiction	Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush	Virginia Hamilton

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

1982	Nonfiction	Upon the Head of the Goat	Aranka Siegal

1982	Picture Book	A Visit to William Blake's Inn	Nancy Willard	Alice and Martin Provensen

1981	Fiction	The Leaving	Lynn Hall

1981	Nonfiction	The Weaver's Gift	Kathryn Lasky	Christopher G. Knight

1981	Picture Book	Outside Over There	Maurice Sendak	Maurice Sendak

1980	Fiction	Conrad's War	Andrew Davies

1980	Nonfiction	Building: The Fight Against Gravity	Mario Salvadori	Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus

1980	Picture Book	The Garden of Abdul Gasazi	Chris Van Allsburg	Chris Van Allsburg

1980	Special Citation	Graham Oakley's Magical Changes	Graham Oakley

1979	Fiction	Humbug Mountain	Sid Fleischman

1979	Nonfiction	The Road from Home	David Kherdian

1979	Picture Book	The Snowman	Raymond Briggs	Raymond Briggs

1978	Fiction	The Westing Game	Ellen Raskin

1978	Nonfiction	Mischling, Second Degree	Ilse Koehn

1978	Picture Book	Anno's Journey	Mitsumasa Anno	Mitsumasa Anno

1977	Fiction	Child of the Owl	Laurence Yep

1977	Nonfiction	Chance, Luck and Destiny	Peter Dickinson

1977	Picture Book	Granfa' Grig Had a Pig	Wallace Tripp	Wallace Tripp

1977	Special Citation	The Changing City and The Changing Countryside	Jorg Mueller

1976	Fiction	Unleaving	Jill Paton Walsh

1976	Nonfiction	Voyaging to Cathay	Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok

1976	Picture Book	Thirteen	Remy Charlip	Jerry Joyner

1975	Fiction	Transport 7-41-R	T. Degens

1975	Picture Book	Anno's Alphabet	Mitsumasa Anno	Mitsumasa Anno

1974	Fiction	M. C. Higgins, the Great	Virginia Hamilton

1974	Picture Book	Jambo Means Hello	Muriel Feelings	Tom Feelings

1973	Fiction	The Dark Is Rising	Susan Cooper

1973	Picture Book	King Stork	Howard Pyle	Trina Schart Hyman

1972	Fiction	Tristan and Iseult	Rosemary Sutcliff

1972	Picture Book	Mr. Gumpy's Outing	John Burningham	John Burningham

1971	Fiction	A Room Made of Windows	Eleanor Cameron

1971	Picture Book	If I Built a Village . ..	Kazue Mizumura	Kazue Mizumura

1970	Fiction	The Intruder	John Rowe Townsend

1970	Picture Book	Hi, Cat!	Ezra Jack Keats	Ezra Jack Keats

1969	Fiction	A Wizard of Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin

1969	Picture Book	The Adventures of Paddy Pork	John S. Goodall	John S. Goodall

1968	Fiction	The Spring Rider	John Lawson

1968	Picture Book	Tikki Tikki Tembo	Arlene Mosel	Blair Lent

1967	Fiction	The Little Fishes	Erik Christian Haugaard

1967	Picture Book	London Bridge Is Falling Down	Peter Spier	Peter Spier

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The Nonfiction award category was introduced in 1976 and the "Fiction and Poems" award was received by Marilyn Nelson for Carver: A Life in Poems in 2001.

final_sentence: The Nonfiction award category was introduced in 1976 and the "Fiction and Poems" award was received by Marilyn Nelson for Carver: A Life in Poems in 2001.