Off the Shelf
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced on June 2, 2009. The awards are given in three categories - Fiction and Poetry, Picture Book, Nonfiction. This year's winners are:
Fiction and Poetry: Nation by Terry Pratchett
Honor Books:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nonfiction: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming
Honor Books:
The Way We Work by David Macaulay with Richard Walker
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
Picture Book: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar
Honor Books:
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli
