Boston Globe – 2014 Horn Book Award Winners

The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most respected and significant honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature, and are awarded annually.

Each year winners are chosen in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Each year there is also a possibility for two Honor Books to be named within each category, and occasionally, a book may receive a special citation for its high quality and overall innovative distinction. Although the author and illustrator may be citizens of any country, the winning books must have been published in the United States.

Picture Book

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild written and illustrated by Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Hachette Book Group)

Honor Books:

Rules of Summer, written and illustrated by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic);
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me , written by Daniel Beaty and illustrated by Bryan Collier (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Hachette Book Group)

Fiction

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (Dutton Children’s Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA)

Honor Books:
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group);
Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang (First Second Books, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press)

Nonfiction

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Book Press)

Honor Books:

The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest—and Most Surprising—Animals on Earth (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) by Steve Jenkins (HoughtonMifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Bake r written by Patricia Hruby Powell and illustrated by Christian Robinson (Chronicle Books)

The Boston Globe – Horn Book Award winner are usually presented in June, and have been presented annually since 1967. These titles are available on Amazon, or at your local library. The editorial mission of the Horn Book awards it to promote good books for children and young adults.