The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide are the most distinguished journals in the field of children’s and young adult literature and the core of our company. Founded in 1924 by Bertha Mahony to herald the best in children’s literature, more than eighty-five years later, we are still following her lead.
The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to authors Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam and illustrator Omar T. Pasha for Punching the Air published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins.