The 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced today. Honoring excellence in children’s and young adult literature, winners are selected annually in three categories: picture book, fiction, and nonfiction.

This year’s Picture Book winner is I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely, illus. by Matt James (Holiday House/Neal Porter). Two Picture Book honor titles were named: Nose to Nose by Thyra Heder (Abrams) and My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales, illus. by C. G. Esperanza (Abrams).

The Fiction Award winner is Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Penguin/Kokila). The two honor titles are Oasis by Guojing (Macmillan/Godwin) and Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen).

The Nonfiction Award winner is Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming (Random/Anne Schwartz). Two Nonfiction honor books were selected: Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan (Roaring Brook) and Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda, illus. by Yuko Shimizu (HarperCollins/Clarion).

To be eligible for the award, books must have been published in the United States between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025. This year’s judges were Susannah Richards (chair), associate professor of education, literacy and literature for youth at Eastern Connecticut State University; Julie Hakim Azzam, a communications project manager at Carnegie Mellon University and a “Calling Caldecott” blog coauthor; and Hill Saxton, senior librarian of youth services at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library.