By way of SF Scope (who mentioned our June issue) is news that the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners have been announced. According to the Horn Book website:

...the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction.

The 2009 winners are:

• Fiction and Poetry: Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
• Nonfiction: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
• Picture Book: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Clarion)

The honor books are:

• Fiction and Poetry

1. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick)
2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

• Nonfiction

1. The Way We Work by David Macaulay with Richard Walker, illustrated by David Macaulay (Lorraine/Houghton)
2. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick)

• Picture Book

1. Old Bear by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
2. Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli (Candlewick)