On June 4, 2007, the winners of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced. The overall winners, plus two honors in each of the three categories of Fiction and Poetry, Picture Book, and Nonfiction will be lauded at a ceremony to be held on October 12 in Boston, MA. Since its inception in 1967, the Awards remain one of the most prestigious honors in the field of children's and young adult literature.

This years winners are:

Fiction and Poetry
THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, TRAITOR TO THE NATION, VOLUME 1: THE POX PARTY by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick)

Honors
CLEMENTINE by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee (Hyperion)
REX ZERO AND THE END OF THE WORLD by Tim Wynne-Jones (Kroupa / Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Picture Book
DOG AND BEAR: TWO FRIENDS, THREE STORIES by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Porter / Roaring Brook)

Honors
365 PENGUINS by Jean-Luc Fromental, illustrated by Joelle Jolive (Abrams)
WOLVES by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster)

Nonfiction
THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD: LOUIS CYR by Nicholas Debon (Groundwood)

Honors
TRACKING TRASH: FLOTSAM, JETSAM, AND THE SCIENCE OF OCEAN MOTION by Loree Griffin Burns (Houghton Mifflin)
ESCAPE! by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow!)

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