Annal:2005 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book

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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

Traction Man Is Here!

Mini Grey

Traction Man — wearing combat boots, battle pants, and his warfare shirt — comes in a box, but very quickly finds the way into the imagination of his lucky boy owner.

 

That New Animal

Emily Jenkins, Pierre Pratt

FudgeFudge does not like that new animal. Marshmallow does not like it either. Not even a little bit.

So begins this forthright, hilarious, and boldly illustrated story about two dogs that see the arrival of a new baby as a huge problem. They don’t like the way that new animal smells or the way the people just sit and stare at it, forgetting all about FudgeFudge and Marshmallow. They have to do something about it, but what? Then one morning a stranger named Grandpa arrives, and he wants to hold that new animal. Instantly FudgeFudge and Marshmallow know they…

 

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Norton Juster, Chris Raschka

This is a love song devoted to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild. The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy’s house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway. Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. Told in her voice, her story is both a voyage of discovery and a celebration of the commonplace wonders that define childhood, expressed as a joyful fusion of text with evocative and exuberant illustrations.The world for this little girl will soon grow larger and more complex, but never more enchanting or deeply felt.

 
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