
These are the 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners and honorees
'Our ongoing tradition of hosting the prestigious Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards together gives us the opportunity to celebrate and shine a light on the incredible authors and illustrators who are transforming and enriching the world of children's and young adult literature," said Boston Globe Media CEO Linda Henry in a statement.
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'I Know How to Draw an Owl,' written by Hilary Horder Hippely and illustrated by Matt James, won the Picture Book Award category. The story follows Belle, a young girl dealing with homelessness who finds solace in art and meets a classmate who may live in similar circumstances. This is the first BGHB award for Hippley and the second for James, who won
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The award for Fiction goes to author Randy Ribay's 'Everything We Never Had,' a multi-generation story of four young Filipino American men living in America during different decades, from 1930 to 2020. Each character's coming-of-age story is intertwined with another's as they grapple with the mistakes of the men who came before them, while passing down their own.
The winner for Nonfiction is
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown' by Candace Fleming. The book is a deep dive into the demise of Jim Jones' infamous, religious cult, the Peoples Temple, in 1978. Fleming aims to recount what led hundreds of people, all devoted to Jones' dogma, to 'drink the kool-aid' that led to the tragic mass murder-suicide. This marks Fleming's third nonfiction win; she received BGHB awards for 2015 and 2009 for 'The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia' and 'The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary,' respectively.
This year's Horn Book honorees include 'Oasis' by GuoJing and 'Compound Fracture'
by Andrew Joseph White for Fiction; 'Nose to Nose'
written and illustrated by Thyra Heder and 'My Daddy Is a Cowboy' written
by Stephanie Seales and illustrated by C. G. Esperanza for Picture Books; and 'Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back' by Ruth Chan and 'Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains' written
by Anita Yasuda and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu in the Nonfiction Book category.
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