June 3- One of the New Zealand's best loved authors, Margaret Mahy, has won the major Picture Book Category Prize in one of America's most prestigious literary prizes , the Boston Globe Horn Book Awards. Tragic couldn't be more delighted. Southern Hemisphere talent has a good record with the Boston - last year Australian Shaun Tan's super graphic novel, The Arrival was also a winner .
Mahy, has written scores of novels, easy readers, and picture books, her winning work, Bubble Trouble, is a tongue-twisting tale about an airborne baby. It marks the New Zealander’s second collaboration with English illustrator Polly Dunbar, herself a multi-award winner.
Mahy, a winner of the world's richest children's literary award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, is also a previous two-time recipient of Boston Globe–Horn Book Award honour book citations. Now she has landed the big one.
The judging panel for the 2009 New Zealand Aeteaoroa Storyline Notable Awards Picture Book Category, were right on the money. They had made a special mention of Bubble Trouble . Margaret's poem has been in print for many years and was therefore not eligible for inclusion in their list. However the panel considered Bubble Trouble to be a treasure for New Zealand children.
All three of the winning authors are widely renowned of this years. Terry Pratchett, winner of the Fiction/Poetry Category, is perhaps best known for his raucous comic fantasies for children and adults. In his winning book, Nation, he displays a philosophical bent with a young adult novel about two nineteenth-century children who create a new society from the ground up.
Winner of Nonfiction category Candace Fleming’s dual biography of the President and Mrs. Lincoln, The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, employs the intricate scrapbook format that distinguished her earlier Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor.
2009 Picture Book Winner and Honour Books
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Winner: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Clarion)
Little Mabel blew a bubble and it caused a lot of trouble! Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way. For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table, Where it bobbled over Baby, and it wafted him away. Follow the hilarious efforts of the townsfolk as they chase the baby far across the town in an effort to get him down from the bubble safe and sound.
About the Author and Illustrator
Margaret Mahy is acknowledged all over the world as one of the outstanding children's writers of today, and has published over 200 titles. Twice winner of the Carnegie Medal, several of her titles have become modern classics. In 2006 she was presented with the Hans Christian Andersen medal, which is the highest international recognition granted to authors and illustrators of children's books. She lives in New Zealand. Polly Dunbar was born in Stratford upon Avon. Daughter of children's author Joyce Dunbar, Polly first started illustrating when she was 16 and has a degree in Illustration at the University of Brighton. She lives in Brighton, Sussex.
Honour Books
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
Beautiful illustrations infused with the color of the seasons, a deeply satisfying text, and a huggable old bear remembering the cub he once was make for an outstanding new picture book by the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of "Kitten's First Full Moon."
Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli (Candlewick)
2009 Fiction and Poetry Winner and Honour Books
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Winner: Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which can make fire. Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She's certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship's parrot. As it happens, they are not alone for long.Other survivors start to arrive to take refuge on the island they all call the Nation and then raiders accompanied by murderous mutineers from the Sweet Judy. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things - including how to milk a pig and why spitting in beer is a good thing - and start to forge a new Nation. As can be expected from Terry Pratchett, the master story-teller, this new children's novel is both witty and wise, encompassing themes of death and nationhood, while being extremely funny. Mau's ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone's lives!
About the Author
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal, while the second, THE WEE FREE MEN - the first about Tiffany and the Nac Mac Feegle - has been optioned by Sony Films to be made into a spectacular movie. Two of his Johnny Maxwell tales have been televised by the BBC as TV drama serials.
Honour Books
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick)
The stunning conclusion to the USA's National Book Award winner and "New York Times" bestseller recounts Octavian's experiences as the Revolutionary War explodes around him. Ultimately, this astonishing narrative escalates to a startling, deeply satisfying climax, while reexamining our national origins in a singularly provocative light.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
In his first full-length novel for middle-graders since the international bestseller "Coraline," Neil Gaiman introduces Bod, a boy who is the only living resident of a graveyard. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? A winner of America's leadingbook award the Caldecott Medal.
2009 Nonfiction Winner and Honour Books
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Winner: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
The award-winning author of "Ben Franklin's Almanac" and "Our Eleanor" has created an enthralling joint biography of one of the nation's greatest presidents and his complex wife unlike any other--a scrapbook history that uses photographs, letters, engravings, and even cartoons to form an enthralling museum on the page.
Honour Books
The Way We Work by David Macaulay with Richard Walker, illustrated by David Macaulay (Lorraine/Houghton)
n this comprehensive and entertaining resource, multi award-winner David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he can. This one-of-a-kind book takes readers on a visual journey through the human body. With his trademark humor, Macaulay builds a body and explains how it works.
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
(Candlewick)
When NASA was launched in 1958, 13 women proved they had as much of the right stuff as men to be astronauts, but their way to space was blocked by prejudice, insecurity, and a scrawled note written by one of Washington's most powerful men. This is the true story of the Mercury 13 women. Illustrations.
Boston Globe- Horn Book Awards
First presented in 1967 and customarily announced in June, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may be named in each category.
The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country.The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the Editor of the Horn Book Official site link
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