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CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 1976-2002 |
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CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 1976-2002 |
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Since 1967, The Boston Globe and The Horn Book, Inc. have co-sponsored
the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for excellence in literature for children
and young adults. The awards are considered among the most prestigious
in the United States. A committee comprised of three professionals involved
in the field of children's literature evaluates thousands of submissions
from US publishers to select winners in three categories: Picture Book,
Fiction, and Nonfiction.
The following list shows the winners for Nonfiction.
| 2002 | Elizabeth Partridge | This Land Was Made for You and Me: Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie |
| 2001 | Joan Dash | The Longitude Prize |
| 2000 | Marc Aronson | Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado |
| 1999 | Steve Jenkins | The Top of the World |
| 1998 | Leon Walter Tillage | Leon's Story |
| 1997 | Walter Wick | A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder |
| 1996 | Andrea Warren | Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story |
| 1995 | Natalie C. Bober | Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution |
| 1994 | Russell Freedman | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery |
| 1993 | Patricia C. & Frederick McKissack | Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman |
| 1992 | Pat Cummings | Talking with Artists |
| 1991 | Cynthia Rylant | Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds |
| 1990 | Jean Fritz | The Great Little Madison |
| 1989 | David Macaulay | The Way Things Work |
| 1988 | Virginia Hamilton | Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave |
| 1987 | Marcia Sewall | Pilgrims of Plimoth |
| 1986 | Peggy Thomson | Auks, Rocks and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History |
| 1985 | Rhoda Blumberg | Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun |
| 1984 | Jean Fritz | The Double Life of Pocahontas |
| 1983 | Daniel S. Davis | Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II |
| 1982 | Aranka Siegal | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944 |
| 1981 | Karthryn Lasky | The Weaver's Gift |
| 1980 | Mario Salvadori | Building: The Fight Against Gravity |
| 1979 | David Kherdian | The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl |
| 1978 | Ilse Koehn | Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany |
| 1977 | Peter Dickinson | Chance, Luck and Destiny |
| 1976 | Alfred Tamarin & Shirley Glubok | Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade |
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