The 2025 Boston Globe – Horn Book Awards were announced on June 24, 2024. The award honors excellence in children’s and young adult literature, selecting books in three categories: picture book, fiction, and nonfiction. The winners are:
Picture Book Winner
Hippely, Hilary Horder. I Know How to Draw an Owl. Illus. by Matt James. Holiday House/Neal Porter, 2024.
Picture Book Honor Titles
Heder, Thyra. Nose to Nose. Abrams, 2024.
Seales, Stephanie. My Daddy Is a Cowboy. Illus. by C.G. Esperanza. Abrams, 2024.
Fiction Winner
Ribay, Randy. Everything We Never Had. Penguin/Kokila, 2024.
Fiction Honor Titles
Guojing. Oasis. Macmillan/Godwin, 2025.
White, Andrew Joseph. Compound Fracture. Peachtree Teen, 2024.
Nonfiction Winner
Fleming, Candace. Death In the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown. Random/Anne Schwartz, 2025.
Nonfiction Honor Titles
Chan, Ruth. Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back. Roaring Brook, 2024.
Yasuda, Anita. Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains. Illus. by Yuko Shimizu. HarperCollins/Clarion, 2024.
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