Annal:1985 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1985. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
- 1985 Golden Kite-nonfiction winner
- 1985 Horn Book-nonfiction winner
- 1986 Newbery honor
- Score: 26.35
For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country’s people still lived under a feudal system like that of Europe in the Middle Ages. But everything began to change when American Commodore Perry and his troops sailed to the Land of the Rising Sun, bringing with them new science and technology, and a new way of life.
