Eckert’s Incident at Hawk’s Hill-but The Circuit’s distinction lies in the fact that it is both a children’s and an adult book it’s not and adult book that young people can enjoy nor a children’s book that can speak equally to adults. ![]() This isn’t the first time and adult book garnered children’s-literature honors-think of Alan W. But The Circuit was not submitted to the Horn Book for review-which makes sense, given that the book was published as an adult tittle, a trade paperback from the University of New Mexico Press. The book had already won the John and Patricia Beatty Award as well as the Americas Award the tittle story had also been reprinted in a couple of YA short-story anthologies. ![]() The Winner? The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez. Honor book, When No One Was Watching, honor book, My Louisiana Sky. Ditto for the nonfiction, and then she started in with the fiction. She named the picture book winners, honor books first, then the tip prize. ![]() "When Nancy Vasilakis, chair of the 1998 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards committee, called to tell me about the winners, there was something in her voice that told me that some drama was at hand (for a complete list of the winners, see p. ![]() Editorial On The Circuit (from the Horn Book Magazine – Sept/Oct.
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