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Feb 20, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jack Wong |Nick Brooks |Angela Joy
Thank you to the Horn Book, the Boston Globe, and the awards selection committee for this tremendous honor. I didn’t set out to write a book about swimming. Its seeds were planted over a particular period of time — namely, the spring and summer of 2020 — when everything around me seemed newly foreign and not to be taken for granted. I took particular solace in nature, collecting observations and imagery whenever I could be out in it.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Nick Brooks |Angela Joy
Cover photo by Kristen Joy Emack. Second issue of our centennial year!HB100: Poetry & Folklore: Continuing our centennial coverage with discussion of this issue’s mini-theme. A photo essay by Kristen Joy Emack centering diverse teens in fairy tales. In Memoriam: Patricia Lee Gauch remembers Ed Young. “Tall Tales”: an interview in comic form by Noah Van Sciver and Marlena Myles.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Angeline Boulley |Nick Brooks |Angela Joy |April Harrison
Aaniin! Hello! I am honored to receive the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction for Warrior Girl Unearthed. Chii miigwech to readers everywhere and especially to judges Martha V. Parravano, Roger Sutton, and Chairperson Erica Marks. Every sophomore novel is a triumph, and mine would not have been possible without my editor, Jess Harold, and the entire team at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Nick Brooks |Angela Joy |April Harrison
Hey, everyone. Nick Brooks here, sitting before you today with profound gratitude and immense joy as the recipient of this Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award. This moment is truly inspiring for me, and I am deeply honored to be recognized in this way. And I want to express my heartfelt thanks to the Boston Globe, the Horn Book, and the esteemed judges, Erica Marks, Martha V. Parravano, and Roger Sutton, who made this moment possible.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Thanhha Lai |Nick Brooks |Angela Joy |April Harrison
Greetings, everyone. I’m delighted to be holding in my hands this shiny plate for writing When Clouds Touch Us, a novel-in-verse sequel to Inside Out & Back Again. I was an intern in 1987 at the Boston Globe. Way back then, I was already dreaming of writing fiction, and I never thought one day a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award would arrive in my mail. Greetings, everyone.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Janelle Washington |Angela Joy |April Harrison
I express my deepest appreciation to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards judges Erica Marks, Martha V. Parravano, and Roger Sutton for choosing Choosing Brave for a 2023 Nonfiction Honor Book award. It’s a tremendous honor to have Choosing Brave acknowledged among such a talented and passionate community of authors and illustrators.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Dinah Johnson |Angela Joy |April Harrison
Greetings! I am so thrilled to accept this honor award from the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee. It is an honor because there are so many beautiful books they could have recognized, so it’s thrilling that they’ve recognized this one. Harlem is a special place with special people and a special history, beginning with the Indigenous people who settled that land and lived on that land.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
hbook.com | April Harrison |Angela Joy
This book taught me things that I didn’t know about Harlem. Dinah’s words took me on a journey of discovery. I not only discovered the history behind some of Harlem’s legendary buildings; it made me dive deeper into the actual people who made these buildings so special. When I started illustrating, I decided to divide the book up.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Angela Joy |April Harrison
I am thrilled today to accept a 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Award for Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement. I am truly appreciative of this lovely award. A few weeks ago, I was asked to record a simple anecdote of hope for a virtual fundraising event. For days, I struggled with what to say.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Angela Joy |Chris Paul |Courtney Elizabeth Lovett |Lesa Cline-Ransome
Children will come away with a hazy sense of Prince but a firmer grasp on the healing power of music in hard times. Lavender-washed pages background this picture-book tribute to Prince. Author Joy grew up in Prince’s childhood neighborhood in Minneapolis’ Northside and even performed with him once; her lyrical tribute to the groundbreaking Black musician is allusive and evocative, eliciting feelings rather than unreeling facts.
