| Year |
Author |
Title |
| 2010 |
Jerry Pinkney
| The Lion & the Mouse |
| 2009 |
Beth Krommes |
The House in the Night |
| 2008 |
Brian Selznick |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| 2007 |
David Wiesner |
Flotsam |
| 2006 |
Chris Raschka |
The Hello, Goodbye Window |
| 2005 |
Kevin Henkes |
Kitten's First Full Moon |
| 2004 |
Mordicai Gerstein |
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
| 2003 |
Eric Rohmann |
My Friend Rabbit |
| 2002 |
David Wiesner |
The Three Pigs |
| 2001 |
David Small |
So You Want to be President? |
| 2000 |
Simms Taback |
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat |
| 1999 |
Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
Snowflake Bentley |
| 1998 |
Paul O. Zelinsky |
Rapunzel |
| 1997 |
David Wisniewski |
Golem |
| 1996 |
Peggy Rathman |
Officer Buckle and Gloria |
| 1995 |
David Diaz |
Smokey night |
| 1994 |
Allen Say |
Grandfather's journey |
| 1993 |
Emily A. McCully |
Mirette on the high wire |
| 1992 |
David Wiesner |
Tuesday |
| 1991 |
David Macaulay |
Black and white |
| 1990 |
Ed Young |
Lon Po Po |
| 1989 |
Karen Ackerman |
Song and dance man |
| 1988 |
Jane Yolen |
Owl moon |
| 1987 |
Arthur Yorinks |
Hey Al |
| 1986 |
Chris Van Allsburg |
Polar Express |
| 1985 |
Margaret Hodges |
Saint George and the Dragon |
| 1984 |
Alice & Martin Provensen |
The glorious flight |
| 1983 |
Marcia Brown |
Shadow |
| 1982 |
Chris Van Allsburg |
Jumanji |
| 1981 |
Arnold Lobel |
Fables |
| 1980 |
Barbara Cooney |
Ox-cart man |
| 1979 |
Paul Gobel |
The girl who loved wild horses |
| 1978 |
Peter Spier |
Noah's ark |
| 1977 |
Leo & Diane Dillon |
Ashanti to Zulu |
| 1976 |
Leo & Diane Dillon |
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears |
| 1975 |
Gerald McDermott |
Arrow to the sun |
| 1974 |
Margot Zemach |
Duffy and the devil |
| 1973 |
Blair Lent |
The funny little woman |
| 1972 |
Nonny Hogrogian |
One fine day |
| 1971 |
Gail E. Haley |
A story -- a story |
| 1970 |
William Steig |
Sylvester and the magic pebble |
| 1969 |
Uri Shulevitz |
The fool of the world and the flying ship |
| 1968 |
Ed Emberely |
Drummer Hoff |
| 1967 |
Evaline Ness |
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine |
| 1966 |
Nonny Hogrogian |
Always room for one more |
| 1965 |
Beni Montresor |
May I bring a friend |
| 1964 |
Maurice Sendak |
Where the wild things are |
| 1963 |
Ezra Jack Keats |
The snowy day |
| 1962 |
Marcia Brown |
Once a mouse |
| 1961 |
Nicolas Sidjakov |
Baboushka and the three kings |
| 1960 |
Marie Hall Ets |
Nine days to Christmas |
| 1959 |
Barbara Cooney |
Chanticleer and the fox |
| 1958 |
Robert McCloskey |
Time of wonder |
| 1957 |
Marc Simont |
A tree is nice |
| 1956 |
Feodor Rojankovsky |
Frog went a courtin' |
| 1955 |
Marcia Brown |
Cinderella or the Little glass slipper |
| 1954 |
Ludwig Bemelmans |
Madeline's rescue |
| 1953 |
Lynd K. Ward |
The biggest bear |
| 1952 |
Nicolas Mordvinoff |
Finders keepers |
| 1951 |
Katherine Milhous |
The egg tree |
| 1950 |
Leo Politi |
Song of the swallows |
| 1949 |
Berta & Elmer Hader |
The big snow |
| 1948 |
Roger Duvoisin |
White snow, bright snow |
| 1947 |
Leonard Weisgard |
The little island |
| 1946 |
Maud & Miska Petersham |
The rooster crows |
| 1945 |
Elizabeth Orton Jones |
Prayer for a child |
| 1944 |
Louis Slobodkin |
Many moons |
| 1943 |
Virginia Lee Burton |
The little house |
| 1942 |
Robert McCloskey |
Make way for ducklings |
| 1941 |
Robert Lawson |
They were strong and good |
| 1940 |
Ingri Parin d'Aulaire |
Abraham Lincoln |
| 1939 |
Thomas Handforth |
Mei Li |
| 1938 |
Dorothy P. Lathrop |
Animals of the Bible |
