2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards

The 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, announced by The Horn Book on June 23, 2025, went to I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely, illustrated by Matt James, for picture book; Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay for fiction; and Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming for nonfiction. The honor books were Nose to Nose by Thyra Heder and My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales, illustrated by C. G. Esperanza, for picture book; Oasis by Guojing and Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White for fiction; and Uprooted by Ruth Chan and Up, Up, Ever Up! by Anita Yasuda, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, for nonfiction. Eligible books were first U.S. editions published between June 2024 and May 2025.