Annal:2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2006 Horn Book-picture winner
- Score: 10.56
Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one’s quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man’s got to go where the wind blows.
With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas, here is a playful, whimsical, and evocative book that celebrates the natural world and the rich imaginative life of children.
Mama: A true story, in which a baby hippo loses his mama during a tsunami, but finds a new home, and a new mama
- 2006 Horn Book-picture honor
- Score: 6.56
Set during the devastating tsunami of 2004, Mama is the touching true story of a baby hippo that was separated from his mother when the wave hit. After struggling alone for several days, the baby was rescued by Kenyan wildlife officers and brought to live in an animal refuge. There, all by himself, he adopted a new “mother”—that just happened to be a 130-year-old giant male tortoise. And they’ve been inseparable ever since.
Although Mama takes place against the backdrop of a terrible human tragedy, at the heart of this story is a moving and…
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building
Deborah Hopkinson, James E. Ransome
- 2006 Horn Book-picture honor
- Score: 6.56
The acclaimed team that brought readers the IRA Children’s Book Award-winning Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt is back with a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be.
