Boston Globe-Horn Book Award - Picture Book

Awards List

2022

Ain't Burned All the Bright
(Winner)
Jason Reynolds

Moon Pops
(Honor Book)
Heena Baek

War
(Honor Book)
Jose Jorge Letria

2021

I Talk Like a River
(Winner)
Jordan Scott

I Am Every Good Thing
(Honor Book)
Derrick Barnes

Watercress
(Honor Book)
Andrea Wang

2020

Saturday
(Winner)
Oge Mora

Birdsong
(Honor Book)
Julie Flett

Pokko and the Drum
(Honor Book)
Matthew Forsythe

2019

The Patchwork Bike
(Winner)
Maxine Beneba Clarke

Dreamers
(Honor Book)
Yuyi Morales

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
(Honor Book)
Traci Sorell

2018

They Say Blue
(Winner)
Jillian Tamaki

A Different Pond
(Honor Book)
Bao Phi

When's My Birthday?
(Honor Book)
Julie Fogliano

2017

Freedom Over Me
(Winner)
Ashley Bryan

Wolf in the Snow
(Honor Book)
Matthew Cordell

Town Is by the Sea
(Honor Book)
Joanne Schwartz

2016

Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
(Winner)
Roxane Orgill
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

One Day, the End.: Short, Very Short, Shorter-Than-Ever Stories
(Honor Book)
Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Thunder Boy Jr.
(Honor Book)
Sherman Alexie

2015

The Farmer and the Clown
(Winner)
Marla Frazee

Once Upon an Alphabet
(Honor Book)
Oliver Jeffers

It's Only Stanley
(Honor Book)
Jon Agee

2014

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
(Winner)
Peter Brown

Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
(Honor Book)
Daniel Beaty

Rules of Summer
(Honor Book)
Shaun Tan

2013

Building Our House
(Winner)
Jonathan Bean

Black Dog
(Honor Book)
Levi Pinfold

Open This Little Book
(Honor Book)
Chronicle Books

2012

Extra Yarn
(Winner)
Mac Barnett

And the Soldiers Sang
(Honor Book)
J. Patrick Lewis

And Then It's Spring
(Honor Book)
Julie Fogliano

2010

It's a Secret!
(Honor Book)
John Burningham

The Lion & the Mouse
(Honor Book)
Jerry Pinkney

2009

Bubble Trouble
(Winner)
Margaret Mahy

Old Bear
(Honor Book)
Kevin Henkes

2008

At Night
(Winner)
Jonathan Bean

Fred Stays with Me!
(Honor Book)
Nancy Coffelt

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
(Honor Book)
Marla Frazee

2007

Two Friends, Three Stories
(Winner)
Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Wolves
(Honor Book)
Emily Gravett

365 Penguins
(Honor Book)
Jean-Luc Fromental

2006

Leaf Man
(Winner)
Lois Ehlert

2004

Snow Music
(Honor Book)
Lynne Rae Perkins

2003

Big Momma Makes the World
(Winner)
Phyllis Root

2002

Let's Get A Pup! Said Kate
(Winner)
Bob Graham

I Stink!
(Honor Book)
Kate McMullan; Jim McMullan

2000

Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
(Winner)
D.B. Johnson

Buttons
(Honor Book)
Brock Cole
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1998

Seven Brave Women
(Honor Book)
Betsy Hearne

1997

The Adventures of Sparrowboy
(Winner)
Brian Pinkney

1996

In the Rain with Baby Duck
(Winner)
Amy Hest

1995

John Henry
(Winner)
Julius Lester

1994

Grandfather's Journey
(Winner)
Allen Say

1992

Seven Blind Mice
(Winner)
Ed Young

1991

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
(Winner)
Katherine Paterson

1990

Lon Po Po
(Winner)
Ed Young

1989

Shy Charles
(Winner)
Rosemary Wells

1987

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
(Winner)
John Steptoe

1986

The Paper Crane
(Winner)
Molly Bang
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1985

Mama Don't Allow
(Winner)
Thacher Hurd

1984

Jonah and the Great Fish
(Winner)
Warwick Hutton

1983

A Chair for My Mother
(Winner)
Vera B. Williams

1981

Outside Over There
(Winner)
Maurice Sendak

1980

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
(Winner)
Chris Van Allsburg

1979

The Snowman: Walking in the Air
(Winner)
Raymond Briggs

1978

Anno's Journey
(Winner)
Mitsumasa Anno

1975

Anno's Alphabet
(Winner)
Mitsumasa Anno

1972

Mr. Gumpy's Outing
(Winner)
John Burningham

1970

Hi, Cat!
(Winner)
Ezra Jack Keats

1968

Tikki Tikki Tembo
(Winner)
Arlene Mosel

Award Categories

Fiction & Poetry

Nonfiction

Picture Book

Special Citation

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