The 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards annually recognize excellence in children’s books and young adult books. All children’s and young adult books published in the United States between June 2009 and May 2010 were eligible for the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards.
Note: All of the quotations below are from the official 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards announcement.
The 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: Picture Book
I Know Here by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood Books, 2010.ISBN: 9780888999238) .
"...in I Know Here, Canadian author Laurel Croza and illustrator Matt James sensitively explore and gloriously picture the feelings of a little girl contemplating her family’s move in the early 1960s from the wilds of northern Saskatchewan to the big city of Toronto."
The 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: Fiction and Poetry
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780385737425) ."A seamlessly constructed tale of friendship and time travel set on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1970s, When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead’s second novel for young people, has already found acclaim among children and critics alike..." Read librarian Jean Hatfield's review of When You Reach Me, for which Rebecca Stead also received the 2010 Newbery Medal.
The 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: Nonfiction
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary (Viking, 2009. ISBN: 9780670011896) ."Elizabeth Partridge, who won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction in 2002 for This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Viking), wins again for Marching for Freedom, a dramatic account—told in searingly immediate photos and compelling prose—of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery in support of voting rights for African Americans."
The 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Books
Picture Book- It’s a Secret! by John Burningham (Candlewick Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780763642754) .
- The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown, 2009. ISBN: 9780316013567) Read my review of The Lion & the Mouse. .
- The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís (Scholastic, ISBN: 9780439269704) .?
- A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow, 2010. ISBN: 9780061870934) .
