From: Norma Jean <nsawicki>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:10:51 -0400

FYI.....Norma Jean
   

2007 Boston Globe?Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children?s Literature

A Boston slave at the dawn of the Revolutionary War, a nineteenth-century French-Canadian strongman, and a timeless pair of buddies are the subjects of the three books that captured the top honors when the Boston Globe?Horn Book Awards were announced on June 4, 2007.

The Boston Globe?Horn Book Awards, which have been annually presented since 1967, are given in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Picture Book, and Nonfiction. The 2007 winners are:

Fiction and Poetry:
    The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (Candlewick) by M. T. Anderson

Picture Book: Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories (Porter/Roaring Brook) written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Nonfiction: The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr (Groundwood) written and illustrated by Nicolas Debon

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing also won the 2006 National Book Award for Young People?s Literature and was named a 2007 Printz Honor Book. Two previous books by Mr. Anderson were Boston Globe?Horn Book Award Honor Books: Handel, Who Knew What He Liked in 2002 and Feed in 2003. Laura Vaccaro Seeger, an Emmy Award?winner for her television animation, began her picture book career in 2001 when she collaborated with her husband?s uncle, folksinger Pete Seeger, on I Had a Rooster. Nonfiction winner Nicolas Debon started to write and illustrate when he lived in Toronto, where he spent a decade before returning to his native France.

The judges also selected two honor books in each category: Fiction and Poetry:
   Clementine (Hyperion) written by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee Rex Zero and the End of the World (Kroupa/Farrar) by Tim Wynne-Jones


Picture Book:
    365 Penguins (Abrams) written by Jean-Luc Fromental, illustrated by Joelle Jolivet Wolves (Simon) written and illustrated by Emily Gravett

Nonfiction: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Houghton) by Loree Griffin Burns Escape! (Greenwillow) by Sid Fleischman


Two of the honor book winners are making return trips to the ceremony. Sid Fleischman, this time singled out for nonfiction, won the 1979 fiction award for Humbug Mountain. Tim Wynne-Jones won the fiction prize in 1995 for Some of the Kinder Planets.

The 2007 Boston Globe?Horn Book Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, October 12, 2007, at the Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts. The honored authors and illustrators are expected to be on hand to accept their awards and deliver their acceptance speeches.

All children?s and young adult books published in the United States between June 2006 and May 2007 were eligible for the award. The winning authors and illustrators may be citizens of any country. Winners in each category receive a cash prize and an engraved silver bowl. Honor book recipients receive an engraved silver plate. The acceptance speeches of the award winners will be published in the January/February 2008 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

The 2007 Boston Globe?Horn Book Awards judges: Betty Carter, Chair Professor Emerita, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman?s University and reviewer, The Horn Book Magazine Julie Roach
   Head of Main Library Children's Room, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Massachusetts Anita Silvey Former Editor in Chief of The Horn Book Magazine and author of 100 Best Books for Children
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