Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are a set of American literary awards conferred by
The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine annually from 1967. One book is recognized in each of three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book. The official website calls the awards "among the most prestigious honors in children's and young adult literature".
The Awards follow a school-year calendar. Taking the 2011–2012 cycle for illustration: books published June 2011 to May 2012 were eligible; submissions from publishers were accepted until May 15; the awards and honors were announced during June, only one to twelve months after the eligible books were released.
From 1967 to 1975 there were only two award categories, fiction and picture book. The Nonfiction award was introduced in 1976 and the fiction category was revised to "Fiction and Poems" in 2001, when that award recognized Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson. There have been five "Special Citations": fourth awards conferred in five different years from 1977 to 1999.
Generally the books under consideration have been submitted by their publishers but the panel of judges may honor any eligible book. Before 2011–2012 the publishers were permitted to submit only a limited number of candidates.
Winners
| Year | Category | Book | Writer | Illustrator |
| 2019 | Picture Book | The Patchwork Bike | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Van T. Rudd |
| 2019 | Fiction and Poetry | The Season of Styx Malone | Kekla Magoon | |
| 2019 | Nonfiction | This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality | Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ' | Peter Sís | Peter Sís |
| 2007 | Picture Book | Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
| 2007 | Fiction and Poetry | ' | 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 | ' | 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 | ' | Peter Sís | |
| 1998 | Fiction | ' | 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 | ' | 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 | 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 |
Repeat winners
Author Virginia Hamilton and illustrator Ed Young have both won three Awards, both in two categories.Mitsumasa Anno, Avi, Jean Fritz, Cynthia Rylant, Allen Say and Vera B. Williams have all won two Awards.