The 2009 Boston Globe – Horn Book Awards have been announced.  They “reward excellence in children’s and young adult literature” and have three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book.

The winners are:

Fiction and Poetry:

Nation by Terry Pratchett

Nonfiction:

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming

Picture Book:

Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar

Honor Books

Fiction and Poetry:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by MT Anderson

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Nonfiction:

The Way We Work by David Macaulay

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

Picture Book:

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes

Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli