Stead, Partridge Win Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
RSSBy SLJ Staff
Rebecca Stead’s Newbery winner, When You Reach Me (Random), National Book Award finalist Elizabeth Partridge’s Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary (Viking), and a first time author-illustrator team are winners of the 2010 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards www.hbook.com/bghb for excellence in children’s and young adult literature.
Presented annually since 1967, the awards are given in three categories: fiction and poetry, nonfiction, and picture book.
Stead’s second novel for young adults weaves a tale of friendship and time travel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1970s. Partridge, who won the 2002 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for nonfiction for This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Viking), wins again for her dramatic account—told with photos and compelling prose—of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery in support of voting rights for African Americans. And the picture book I Know Here (Groundwood) by Canadian author Laurel Croza and illustrator Matt James explore 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 Honor Books are:
Fiction and Poetry:
The Dreamer (Scholastic)by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís
A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow) by Megan Whalen Turner
Nonfiction
Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures (Roaring Brook) by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol
Smile (Scholastic) by Raina Telgemeier
Picture Book
It’s a Secret! (Candlewick) by John Burningham
The Lion & the Mouse (Little, Brown) by Jerry Pinkney
Burningham is winner of a 1972 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Mr. Gumpy’s Outing, and Pinkney, who won in 1995 for John Henry, is winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal for The Lion & the Mouse. Muñoz Rya’s novel about the childhood of Pablo Neruda is illustrated by two-time Boston Globe–Horn Book recipient Sís. Meanwhile, Whalen Turner’s book uses text and pictures to provide new ways of looking at familiar stories. Anne Frank takes readers beyond the famous diary with images of her childhood and years in hiding, and Smile, a graphic memoir, looks at the trials of a middle school girl’s coming-of-age.
All children’s and young adult books published in the United States between June 2009 and May 2010 were eligible for the award. Winners, who may be citizens of any country, receive a cash prize and an engraved silver bowl. Honor book recipients receive an engraved silver plate.
The 2010 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards judges are: Chair Martha V. Parravano, executive editor, of The Horn Book Magazine, and co-author of the forthcoming A Family of Readers: The Book Lover’s Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Literature Chair; Julie Just, children's books editor of The New York Times Book Review; and Gregory Maguire, author of books for children and adults, and co-founder and co-director of Children's Literature New England.
The 2010 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, October 1, 2010, at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. The honored authors and illustrators are expected to be on hand to accept their awards and deliver their acceptance speeches.
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