From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 11:47:48 -0500

The 2000 Boston Globe / Horn Book Awards have recently been announced as follows:

*Fiction:
"The Folk Keeper" by Franny Billingsley (Atheneum)

*Honor Books for Fiction:

1) "King of Shadows" by Susan Cooper (McElderry) 2) "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers (Delacorte)

*Nonfiction
"Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado" by Marc Aronson
(Clarion)

*Honor Books for Nonfiction: 1) "Osciola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter" collected and edited by Alan Govenar; illustrated by Shane W. Evans (Jump at the Sun/Hypersion) 2) "Sitting Bull and His World" by Albert Marrin (Dutton)

*Picture Book
"Henry Hikes to Fitchburg" written and illustrated by D. B. Johnson
(Houghton)

*Honor Books for Picture Books:

1) "Buttons" written and illustrated by Brock Cole (Farrar) 2) "a day, a dog" illustrated by Gabrielle Vincent (Front Street)

More information about the award and about past winners can be found at: http://www.hbook.com/bghbabout.shtml

Kathleen Horning Cooperative Children's Book Center
Received on Sun 02 Jul 2000 11:47:48 AM CDT