Today the winners of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced. Here are the winners, all names that are very familiar:
Fiction and Poetry: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Picture Book: Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
Nonfiction: If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty
As an aside, I am very happy with Leaf Man and Moon winning, but I am still baffled by the appeal of Edward Tulane. Ah well, I must be missing something.
Two honor books were also selected in each category:
Fiction and Poetry:
Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary by Julie Larios.
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy.
Picture Book:
Mama: A True Story in Which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama… by Jeanette Winter
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson.
Nonfiction:
A Mother’s Journey by Sandra Markle.
Wildfire by Taylor Morrison.