Pratchett, Mahy, Fleming Nab Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards
By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 6/4/2009

An award-winning British novelist, an American biographer, and a New Zealand storyteller are winners of the 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for excellence in children’s and young adult literature.

The awards, announced in June 2, were given in three categories: Nation (HarperCollins) by Terry Pratchett won for best fiction and poetry; The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Random) by Candace Fleming won for best nonfiction; and Bubble Trouble (Clarion) by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Clarion) won for best picture book.

Pratchett, best known for his comic fantasies for kids and adults, “displays a philosophical bent” with Nation, a YA novel about two 19th-century children who create a new society from the ground up, says the awards committee.
Fleming’s dual biography of the President Abe Lincoln and his wife uses an“intricate scrapbook format” to tell her story.
And Mahy, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a two-time recipient of Boston Globe–Horn Book Award honor book citations, marks her second collaboration with English illustrator Polly Dunbar in Bubble Trouble, a tongue-twisting tale about an airborne baby.
The judges selected two honor books in each category:
Fiction and Poetry: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (Candlewick) by M. T. Anderson

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