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2005 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
Picture Book Winner
- Grey, Mini. Traction Man is Here! New York: Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 2005.
Traction Man, a boy's courageous action figure, has a variety of adventures with Scrubbing Brush and other objects in the house.
Fiction/Poetry Winner
- Shusterman, Neal. The Schwa Was Here. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2004.
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
Nonfiction Winner
- Hoose, Phillip. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.
Tells the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker's extinction in the United States, describing the encounters between this species and humans, and discussing what these encounters have taught us about preserving endangered creatures.
Picture Book Honors
- Jenkins, Emily. That New Animal. Illustrated by Pierre Pratt. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.
The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house.
- Juster, Norton. The Hello, Goodbye Window. Illustrated by Chris Raschka. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2005.
A little girl describes the magic kitchen window in her grandparents' home.
Fiction/Poetry Honors
- Clarke, Judith. Kalpana's Dream. Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2004.
While an English class of 7B students at Wentworth High in Australia struggle with a six-week essay assignment answering, "Who am I?," one child's great-grandmother arrives unexpectedly from India to follow her dream.
- Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till. Illustrated by Phillipe Lardy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Marilyn Nelson has memorialized the life of Emmett Till in a crown of sonnets that is heart wrenchingly beautiful. An innocent fourteen year old whose “stuttering whistle” at a white woman leads to his brutal beating and drowning death, Till’s story is one of several incidents that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
Nonfiction Honors
- Giblin, James Cross. Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth. New York: Clarion Books, 2005.
Most people know the name John Wilkes Booth, but few likely have heard of his elder brother Edwin. Find out about the brothers through first-hand accounts. Learn how alike and how different they were, and how each made a lasting impression on American history.
- Rosen, Michael. Michael Rosen's Sad Book. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.
A man tells about all the emotions that accompany his sadness over the death of his son, and how he tries to cope.
*Book descriptions come from OhioLINK summaries.
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This award honors outstanding titles in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book. Books must be published in the U.S. but can be written by non-Americans. (This is not the case in the Newbery and Caldecott awards.) Honor books are selected in addition to the winning books.