Horn Book Awards Announced

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Prestigious honors go to Mordicai Gerstein, David Almond, Jim Murphy

By Staff -- School Library Journal, 06/01/2004

Other winners are:

Fiction and poetry: The Fire-Eaters (Delacorte) by David Almond.
Nonfiction: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Clarion) by Jim Murphy.

The honor books are:

Picture book: The Shape Game (Farrar) by Anthony Browne and Snow Music (Greenwillow) by Lynne Rae Perkins.
Fiction and poetry: God Went to Beauty School (HarperTempest) by Cynthia Rylant and The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One (Hyperion) by Jonathan Stroud.
Nonfiction: Surprising Sharks (Candlewick) written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by James Croft and The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins (Chronicle) by Bea Uusma Schyffert.