Horn Book Awards (1967-2006)

Given by the Boston Globe, the Horn Book Awards are presented to the most outstanding juvenile books in the U.S. One award is given for outstanding fiction, one for outstanding nonfiction (beginning in 1976), and one for outstanding illustration.

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The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Horn Book Award.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (2006)

If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty (2006)

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert (2006)

Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey (2005)

The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman (2005)

The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose (2005)

The Man Who Walked between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (2004)

The Fire-Eaters by David Almond (2004)

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (2004)

Big Momma Makes the World by Phyllis Root (2003)

The Jamie and Angus Stories by Anne Fine (2003)

Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman (2003)

“Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate by Bob Graham (2002)

This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge (2002)

Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury (2002)

Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (2001)

The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash (2001)

Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelice (2001)

The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley (2000)

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson (2000)

Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson (2000)

Holes by Louis Sachar (1999)

The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins (1999)

Red-eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley (1999)

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez (1998)

Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)

And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks (1998)

The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto (1997)

A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick (1997)

The Adventures of Sparrowboy by Brian Pinkney (1997)

Poppy by Avi (1996)

Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story by Andrea Warren (1996)

In the Rain with Baby Duck by Amy Hest (1996)

Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones (1995)

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober (1995)

John Henry retold by Julius Lester (1995)

Scooter by Vera Williams (1994)

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (1994)

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say (1994)

Ajeemah and His Son by James Berry (1993)

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. and Frederick McKissack (1993)

The Fortune-Tellers by Lloyd Alexander (1993)

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (1992)

Talking with Artists compiled and edited by Pat Cummings (1992)

Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young (1992)

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (1991)

Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant (1991)

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson (1991)

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1990)

The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz (1990)

Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China translated by Ed Young (1990)

The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox (1989)

The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (1989)

Shy Charles by Rosemary Wells (1989)

The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor (1988)

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton (1988)

The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder (1988)

Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry (1987)

The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall (1987)

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe (1987)

In Summer's Light by Zibby Oneal (1986)

Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History by Peggy Thomson (1986)

The Paper Crane by Molly Bang (1986)

The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (1985)

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (1985)

Mama Don't Allow by Thacher Hurd (1985)

A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson (1984)

The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz (1984)

Jonah and the Great Fish retold by Warwick Hutton (1984)

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (1983)

Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis (1983)

A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams (1983)

Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park (1982)

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (1982)

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (1982)

The Leaving by Lynn Hall (1981)

The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky (1981)

Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak (1981)

Conrad's War by Andrew Davies (1980)

Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario Salvadori (1980)

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg (1980)

Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman (1979)

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (1979)

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (1979)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)

Mischling, Second Degree by Ilse Koehn (1978)

Anno's Journey by Mitsumasa Anno (1978)

Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep (1977)

Chance, Luck and Destiny by Peter Dickinson (1977)

Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose by Wallace Tripp (1977)

Unleaving by Jill Paton Walsh (1976)

Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade by Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok (1976)

Thirteen by Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner (1976)

Transport 7-41-R by T. Degens

Anno's Alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno (1975)

M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (1974)

Jambo Means Hello by Muriel Feelings (1974)

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (1973)

King Stork by Howard Pyle (1973)

Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff (1972)

Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham (1972)

A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron (1971)

If I Built a Village... by Kazue Mizumura (1971)

The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend (1970)

Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats (1970)

A Wizard of Earthsea by Urusla K. LeGuin (1969)

The Adventures of Paddy Pork by John S. Goodall (1969)

The Spring Rider by John Lawson (1968)

Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel (1968)

The Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard (1967)

London Bridge is Falling Down by Peter Spier (1967)