Annal:1991 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1991. 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.
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
- 1991 Horn Book-nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.41
Lyrical prose and warm watercolor illustrations bring a “certain part of the country called Appalachia” alive for young readers. Two award-winning artists, forever touched by their experiences growing up in this unique landscape, have teamed to create a quietly powerful and beautifully crafted portrait of life in a timeless place.
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
- 1991 Golden Kite-nonfiction winner
- 1992 Newbery honor
- 1991 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
- Score: 22.41
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England
- 1991 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
- Score: 6.41
She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admiration of her enemies.
Elizabeth was born into an age of religious strife, in which plots and factions were everywhere and private beliefs could be punished by death. When she became queen, her counselors urged her to marry quickly and turn the responsibilities of governing over to her husband, But she outwitted them by stalling, changing her mind; and playing one side against another, as she steered her country to…
