The winners of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are Saturday by Oge Mora, King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, and Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan.
In a streamed video announcement as part of the virtual SLJ Day of Dialog, the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced by Horn Book editor-in-chief Roger Sutton. The awards recognize titles in three categories: picture books, fiction and poetry, and nonfiction.
The 2020 winners and honor books are:
Picture Book
Winner: Saturday by Oge Mora
Honors: Birdsong by Julie Flett
Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
Fiction and Poetry
Winner: King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
Honors: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Nonfiction
Winner: Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan
Honors: Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear & illus. by Julie Morstad
First awarded in 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards honor excellence in literature for children and young adults. Its annual awards recognize books published from June 1 to May 31.
The 2020 awards ceremony will be in October, and Sutton announced that it will take place done virtually, “which is sad, but means you all can attend," he said. "I hope to see you there."
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