The Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards
The Boston Globe and The Horn Book have sponsered The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. This award is given to books that are considered excellent. It is an award for books for children abd young adults.

The books are judged by a committe made up of three professionals that work in the area of children's literature. There are three categories: Picture books, Fiction, and Non-Fiction. In order for a book to be considered it has to be published in the United States. To learn more about The Boston Globe/Horn Book Award visit their web site.


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Here is a list of award winning books. They are broken up into the categories of Picture Books, Fiction Books, and Non-Fiction Books.


Fiction Books:
  • 2000: The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
  • 1999: Holes by Louis Sacher
  • 1998: The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Childby Francisco Jimenez
  • 1997: The Friends written by Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano
  • 1996: Poppy by Avi
  • 1995: Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones
  • 1994: Scooter by Vera Williams
  • 1993: Ajeemah and His Sons by James Berry
  • 1992: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
  • 1991 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
  • 1990: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
  • 1989: The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox
  • 1988: The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
  • 1987: Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry
  • 1986: In Summer Light by Zibby Oneal
  • 1985: The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
  • 1984: A Little Fear by Patricia Wrighton
  • 1983: Why the Tides Ebb and Flow by John Chase Bowden
  • 1982: Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
  • 1981: The Leaving by Lynn Hall
  • 1980: Conrad's War by Andrew Davies
  • 1979: Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman1978: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
  • 1977: Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
  • 1976: Unleaving by Jill Paton Walsh
  • 1975: Transport 7-41-R by T. Degens
  • 1974: M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamiliton
  • 1973: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
  • 1972: Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff
  • 1971: A Room of Windows by Eleanor Cameron
  • 1970: The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend
  • 1969: A Wizard or Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 1968: The Spring Rider by John Lawson
  • 1967: The Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard

    • Non-Fiction
  • 2000: Sir Walter Ralegh and Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson
  • 1999: The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins
  • 1998: Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage
  • 1997: A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick
  • 1996: Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story by Andrea Warren
  • 1995: Abigal Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S Bober
  • 1994: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
  • 1993: Sojourner Truth Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack
  • 1992: Talking with Artists by Pat Cummings
  • 1991: Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant
  • 1990: The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
  • 1989: The Way Things Work by David Macaulay
  • 1988: Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamiliton
  • 1987: The Pilgrims of Plimouth by Marcia Sewall
  • 1986: Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories From the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History by Peggy Thomson
  • 1985: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhonda Blumberg
  • 1984: The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz
  • 1983: Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis
  • 1982: Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungry 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
  • 1981: The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky
  • 1980: Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario Salvadori
  • 1979: The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
  • 1978: Mischling, Second Degree by Ilse Koehn
  • 1977: Chance, Luck and Destiny by Peter Dickerson
  • 1976: Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade by Alfred Tamarin
    Picture Books
  • 2000: Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D.B.Johnson
  • 1999: Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley
  • 1998: And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks
  • 1997:The Adventures of Sparrowboy by Brian Pinkney
  • 1996: In the Rain with Baby Duck by Amy Hest
  • 1995: John Henry by Julius Lester
  • 1994: Grandfathers Journey by Allen Say
  • 1993: The Fortune Tellers by Lloyd Alexander
  • 1992: Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
  • 1991: The Tale of the Mandarin Duck by Katherine Paterson
  • 1990: Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
  • 1989: Shy Charles by Rosemary Wells
  • 1988 The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder
  • 1987: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
  • 1986: The Paper Crane by Molly Bang
  • 1985: Mama Don't Allow by Thacher Hurd
  • 1984:Jonah and the Great Fish retold by Warwick Hutton
  • 1983: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
  • 1982: Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
  • 1980: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg
  • 1979: The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
  • 1978: Anno's Journey by Mitumasa Anno
  • 1977:Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose by Wallace Tripp
  • 1976: Thirteen by Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner
  • 1975: Anno's Alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno
  • 1974: Jambo Means Hello by Muriel Feelings
  • 1973: King Stork by Howard Pyle
  • 1972: Mr. Grumpy's Outinig by John Burningham
  • 1971 If I Built a Village... by Kazue Mizumura
  • 1970: Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats
  • 1969: The Adventures of Paddy Pork by John S. Goodall
  • 1968: Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
  • 1967: London Bridge is Falling Down by Peter Spier