The Horn Book Award
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
For the most outstanding juvenile books in the U.S.: one award for outstanding fiction, one for outstanding nonfiction, one for outstanding illustration (since 1976); given by the Boston Globe.
| 2016 | Fiction: The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge |
| Nonfiction: Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War, by Steve Sheinkin | |
| Picture Book: Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph, written by Roxanne Orgill, illustrated by Francis Vallejo | |
| 2015 | Fiction: Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, by Katherine Rundell |
| Nonfiction: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, by Candace Fleming | |
| Picture Book: The Farmer and the Clown, by Marla Frazee | |
| 2014 | Fiction: Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith |
| Nonfiction: The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, by Steve Sheinkin | |
| Picture Book: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, written and illustrated by Peter Brown | |
| 2013 | Fiction: Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell |
| Nonfiction: Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin , by Robert Byrd | |
| Picture Book: Building Our House, by Jonathan Bean | |
| 2012 | Fiction: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie |
| Nonfiction: Chuck Close: Face Book, by Chuck Close | |
| Picture Book: Extra Yarn, written by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen | |
| 2011 | Fiction: Blink & Caution, written by Tim Wynne-Jones |
| Nonfiction: The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery, by Steve Sheinkin | |
| Picture Book: Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes , by Salley Mavor | |
| 2010 | Fiction: When You Reach Me, written by Rebecca Stead |
| Nonfiction: Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary, by Elizabeth Partridge | |
| Picture Book: I Know Here, written by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James | |
| 2009 | Fiction: Nation, written by Terry Pratchett |
| Nonfiction: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, by Candace Fleming | |
| Picture Book: Bubble Trouble, by Margaret Mahy | |
| 2008 | Fiction: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie |
| Nonfiction: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, by Peter Sis | |
| Picture Book: At Night, by Jonathan Bean | |
| 2007 | Fiction: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, written by M.T. Anderson |
| Nonfiction: The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr, by Faith McNulty | |
| Picture Book: Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger | |
| 2006 | Fiction: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane , written by Kate DiCamillo |
| Nonfiction: If You Decide to Go to the Moon, by Faith McNulty | |
| Picture Book: Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert | |
| 2005 | Fiction: The Schwa Was Here, written by Neal Shusterman |
| Nonfiction: The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, by Phillip Hoose | |
| Picture Book: Traction Man Is Here!, Mini Grey | |
| 2004 | Fiction: The Fire-Eaters, written by David Almond |
| Nonfiction: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, by Jim Murphy | |
| Picture Book: The Man Who Walked between the Towers, Mordicai Gerstein | |
| 2003 | Fiction: The Jamie and Angus Stories, written by Anne Fine, illustrated by Penny Dale |
| Nonfiction: Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey , by Maira Kalman | |
| Picture Book: Big Momma Makes the World, written by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury | |
| 2002 | Fiction: Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury |
| Nonfiction: This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie , by Elizabeth Partridge | |
| Picture Book: “Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate, written and illus. by Bob Graham | |
| 2001 | Fiction: Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson |
| Nonfiction: The Longitude Prize, by Joan Dash | |
| Picture Book: Cold Feet, by Cynthia DeFelice, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker | |
| 2000 | Fiction: The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley |
| Nonfiction: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, by Marc Aronson | |
| Picture Book: Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, written and illustrated by D. B. Johnson | |
| 1999 | Fiction: Holes by Louis Sachar |
| Nonfiction: The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest , written and illustrated by Steve Jenkins | |
| Picture Book: Red-Eyed Tree Frog, written by Joy Cowley, illustrated with photographs by Nic Bishop | |
| 1998 | Fiction and Poetry: The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, by Francisco Jiménez |
| Nonfiction: Leon's Story, by Leon Walter Tillage, illustrated with collage art by Susan L. Roth | |
| Picture Book: And If the Moon Could Talk, by Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben | |
| 1997 | Fiction: The Friends, by Kazumi Yumoto |
| Nonfiction: A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder, by Walter Wick | |
| Picture Book: The Adventures of Sparrowboy, by Brian Pinkney | |
| 1996 | Fiction: Poppy, by Avi, illustrated by Brian Floca |
| Nonfiction: Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, by Andrea Warren | |
| Picture Book: In the Rain with Baby Duck, by Amy Hest, illustrated by Jill Barton | |
| 1995 | Fiction: Some of the Kinder Planets, by Tim Wynne-Jones |
| Nonfiction: Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution, by Natalie S. Bober | |
| Picture Book: John Henry, retold by Julius Lester, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney | |
| 1994 | Fiction: Scooter, by Vera Williams |
| Nonfiction: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, by Russell Freedman | |
| Picture Book: Grandfather's Journey, by Allen Say | |
| 1993 | Fiction: Ajeemah and His Son, by James Berry |
| Nonfiction: Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?, by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack | |
| Picture Book: The Fortune Tellers, Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman | |
| 1992 | Fiction: Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant |
| Nonfiction: Talking with Artists, compiled and edited by Pat Cummings | |
| Picture Book: Seven Blind Mice, by Ed Young | |
| 1991 | Fiction: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi |
| Nonfiction: Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds, by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Barry Moser | |
| Picture Book: The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon | |
| 1990 | Fiction: Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli |
| Nonfiction: The Great Little Madison, by Jean Fritz | |
| Picture Book: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China, translated and illustrated by Ed Young | |
| Special Citation: Valentine and Orson, by Nancy Ekholm Burkert | |
| 1989 | Fiction: The Village by the Sea, by Paula Fox |
| Nonfiction: The Way Things Work, by David Macaulay | |
| Picture Book: Shy Charles, by Rosemary Wells | |
| 1988 | Fiction: The Friendship, by Mildred D. Taylor, illustrated by Max Ginsgburg |
| Nonfiction: Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, by Virginia Hamilton | |
| Picture Book: The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, by Dianne Snyder, illustrated by Allen Say | |
| 1987 | Fiction: Rabble Starkey, by Lois Lowry |
| Nonfiction: The Pilgrims of Plimoth, by Marcia Sewall | |
| Picture Book: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, by John Steptoe | |
| 1986 | Fiction: In Summer Light, by Zibby Oneal |
| Nonfiction: Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, by Peggy Thomson | |
| Picture Book: The Paper Crane, by Molly Bang | |
| 1985 | Fiction: The Moves Make the Man, by Bruce Brooks |
| Nonfiction: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, by Rhoda Blumberg | |
| Picture Book: Mama Don't Allow, by Thatcher Hurd | |
| Special Citation: 1,2,3 by Tanya Hoban | |
| 1984 | Fiction: A Little Fear, by Patricia Wrightson |
| Nonfiction: The Double Life of Pocahontas, by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Ed Young | |
| Picture Book: Jonah and the Great Fish, retold and illustrated by Warwick Hutton | |
| 1983 | Fiction: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, by Virginia Hamilton |
| Nonfiction: Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II, by Daniel S. Davis | |
| Picture Book: A Chair for My Mother, by Vera B. Williams | |
| 1982 | Fiction: Playing Beatie Bow, by Ruth Park |
| Nonfiction: Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944, by Aranka Siegal | |
| Picture Book: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Helen Roney Sattler, illustrated by Anthony Rao | |
| 1981 | Fiction: The Leaving, by Lynn Hall |
| Nonfiction: The Weaver's Gift, by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated with photographs by Christopher G. Knight | |
| Picture Book: Outside Over There, by Maurice Sendak | |
| 1980 | Fiction: Conrad's War, by Andrew Davies |
| Nonfiction: Building: The Fight Against Gravity, Mario Salvadori, illustrated by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus | |
| Picture Book: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, by Chris Van Allsburg | |
| 1979 | Fiction: Humbug Mountain, by Sid Fleischman |
| Nonfiction: The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, by David Kherdian | |
| Picture Book: The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs | |
| 1978 | Fiction: The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin |
| Nonfiction: Mischling, Second Degree, by Ilse Koehn | |
| Picture Book: Anno's Journey, by Mitsumasa Anno | |
| 1977 | Fiction: Child of the Owl, by Laurence Yep |
| Nonfiction: Chance, Luck and Destiny, by Peter Dickinson | |
| Picture Book: Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose, by Wallace Tripp | |
| Special Citation: The Changing City and The Changing Countryside, by Jorg Mueller | |
| 1976 | Fiction: Unleaving, by Jill Paton Walsh |
| Nonfiction: Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade, by Alfred Tarmarin and Shirley Glubok | |
| Picture Book: Thirteen, by Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner | |
| 1975 | Fiction: Transport 7–41–R, by T. Degens |
| Picture Book: Anno's Alphabet, by Mitsumasa Anno | |
| 1974 | Fiction: M. C. Higgins, The Great, by Virginia Hamilton |
| Picture Book: Jambo Means Hello, by Muriel Feelings, illustrated by Tom Feelings | |
| 1973 | Fiction: The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper |
| Picture Book: King Stork, by Howard Pyle, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman | |
| 1972 | Fiction: Tristan and Iseult, by Rosemary Sutcliff |
| Picture Book: Mr. Grumpy's Outing, by John Burningham | |
| 1971 | Fiction: A Room Made of Windows, by Eleanor Cameron |
| Picture Book: If I Built a Village…, by Kazue Mizumura | |
| 1970 | Fiction: The Intruder, by John Rowe Townsend |
| Picture Book: Hi, Cat!, by Ezra Jack Keats | |
| 1969 | Fiction: A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. LeGuin |
| Picture Book: The Adventures of Paddy Pork, by John S. Goodall | |
| 1968 | Fiction: The Spring Rider, John Lawson |
| Picture Book: Tikki Tikki Tembo, Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent | |
| 1967 | Fiction: The Little Fishes, by Erik Christian Haugaard |
| Picture Book: London Bridge is Falling Down, by Peter Spier |
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