Children's Book Awards

Three highly praised children's books received the 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature. Lord of the Deep (Delacorte) by Graham Salisbury won for fiction and poetry; This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Viking) by Elizabeth Partridge won for nonfiction; and Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate (Candlewick) by Bob Graham won for best picture book.

Two honor books were also named in each category:

Fiction and poetry Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart (Greenwillow) by Vera B. Williams

Saffy's Angel (S & S/Margaret K. McElderry Bks.) by Hilary McKay

Nonfiction Handel, Who Knew What He Liked (Candlewick) by M. T. Anderson, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People (Knopf) by Bonnie Christensen

Picture book I Stink! (HarperCollins/Joanna Cotler Bks.) by Kate McMullan, illustrated by Jim McMullan

Little Rat Sets Sail (Harcourt) by Monika Bang-Campbell, illustrated by Molly Bang

The International Board on Books for Young People has awarded Aidan Chambers, author of Postcards from No Man's Land (Dutton), the 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Quentin Blake, the illustrator of Matilda, The BFG, and many other Roald Dahl classics, won the 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration.

The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2002 Edgar Awards. The winner in the young adult category is The Boy in the Burning House (Farrar/Melanie Kroupa Bks., 2001) by Tim Wynne-Jones. The winner in the juvenile category is Dangling (S & S/Atheneum, 2001) by Lillian Eige.

Lori Aurelia Williams of Austin, TX, has won the 2002 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. Williams is the author of the forthcoming Broken China, Falling Cherubs, and Aliens, and the companion novels, When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune (2000) and Shayla's Double Brown Baby Blues (2001), all published by Simon & Schuster. The $5,000 fellowship, established last year by PEN member Phyllis Naylor, provides a writer with financial support to enable completion of a book.

The winner of the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C., 2002 Award for Nonfiction is photographer/author George Ancona, who has published 40 children's books, including The Fiesta of the Day of the Dead (Lothrop, 1993), Barrio: Jose's Neighborhood (Harcourt, 1998), and Harvest (Marshall Cavendish, 2001). This annual award is granted to "an author or illustrator whose total body of work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children."