Horn Book, Greenaway Award Winners

The following winners of the 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature will be presented with their awards at the Boston Athaeneum hotel October 3:

Picture Book : Big Momma Makes the World (Candlewick) by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

Picture Book Honor Books : Dahlia (Foster/Farrar) by Barbara McClintock, and Blues Journey (Holiday) by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers

Fiction and Poetry : The Jamie and Angus Stories (Candlewick) by Anne Fine, illustrated by Penny Dale

Fiction and Poetry Honor Books : Feed (Candlewick) by M. T. Anderson, and Locomotion (Putnam) by Jacqueline Woodson

Nonfiction: Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey (Putnam) by Maira Kalman

Nonfiction Honor Books : To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers (Clarion) by Wendie C. Old, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker, and Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex (Putnam) by Nathaniel Philbrick

Australian illustrator Bob Graham has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child (Candlewick, 2002). The medal is the most highly regarded award for a picture book for children in the U.K. First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane (Crown) by Peter Busby, illustrated by David Craig, won the first $10,000 James Madison Book Award for best book on American history for young people.

Wings by Julie Gonzalez is the winner of the 21st annual Delacorte Press Prize for the best book manuscript for young adult readers by an unpublished author. The novel tells the story of 16-year-old Ben, who believes that he can teach himself to fly.