September Nonfiction Notes comes out today, and in this issue we're highlighting our 2014 BGHB Nonfiction Award winner and honor books. You can read it online or sign up if you're not already subscribed. Read reviews of all of the 2014 nonfiction winners here; see below for a lot more web extras to celebrate them. And, if you’re in the Boston area, join us on October 10–11, 2014, for the Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium: Mind the Gaps, featuring several 2014 Boston Globe–Horn Book award recipients.

And, if you’re in the Boston area, join us on October 10–11, 2014, for the Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium: Mind the Gaps, featuring several 2014 Boston Globe–Horn Book award recipients!

The 2014 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award winner is Steve Sheinkin's The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Book).

• 2011 acceptance speech for BGHB Nonfiction Award, The Notorious Benedict Arnold


• Five questions for Steve Sheinkin


• Lolly's Classroom: "How I learned to stop worrying and write curriculum about Bomb"


• More recommended books about disasters

Author/illustrator Steve Jenkins received a BGHB Nonfiction Honor for The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest — and Most Surprising — Animals on Earth (Houghton).

• 1999 acceptance speech for BGHB Nonfiction Award, Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest


• "What Would Steve Read?"


• "The Importance of Being Wrong"


• Steve Jenkins Talks with Roger


• The Animal Book e-book review


• Spring 2003 Horn Book Guide cover


• More recommended animal fact books

Author Patricia Hruby Powell and illustrator Christian Robinson received a BGHB Nonfiction Honor for their biography Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Chronicle).

• Calling Caldecott: "Taking stock"


• Calling Caldecott: "#we need diverse (picture) books"


• More recommended biographies of performing artists

For more on children’s nonfiction, check out these articles from The Horn Book:

• "The Amorphous Genre" by Jonathan Hunt (May/June 2013 issue of The Horn Book Magazine)


• "Danger! Dialogue Ahead" by Marc Tyler Nobleman (May/June 2013 issue of The Horn Book Magazine)


• "Persons of Interest: The Untold Rewards of Picture Book Biographies" by Barbara Bader (September/October 2013 issue of The Horn Book Magazine)


• "Today's Picture Book Biographies: Back Matter Matters" by Tracy Nelson Maurer and Ann Henkens Matzke (September 20th, 2013 web extra)


• "Changing Times" lecture by NF great Russell Freedman (June 10th, 2014 web extra)

Stay tuned for web extras on our fiction and picture book winners!