Winners and honor books have been named in three categories for the 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, which celebrate excellence in children's and YA literature.
Horn Book editor in chief Elissa Gershowitz said, "This year's winners and honorees represent such a wide range of what books for young people can be and say. Especially at a time when creative voices are being threatened and silenced, we are proud to recognize children's book creators whose work is so uniquely their own. As always, we are thrilled to partner with the Boston Globe in celebration of excellence in literature for young people."
Picture Book Winner:
I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely; illustrated by Matt James (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House)
Picture Book Honor Books:
Nose to Nose by Thyra Heder (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illustrated by C. G. Esperanza (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Fiction Award Winner:
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
Fiction Honor Books:
Oasis by Guojing (Godwin Books)
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)
Nonfiction Award Winner:
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming (Anne Schwartz Books)
Nonfiction Honor Books:
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan (Roaring Brook Press)
Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda; illustrated by Yuko Shimizu (Clarion Books)