| Year |
Title |
Author |
| 2008 |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures |
Brian Selznick |
| 2007 |
Flotsam |
David Wiesner |
| 2006 |
The Hello, Goodbye Window |
illus. by Chris Raschka; text: Norton Juster |
| 2005 |
Kitten's First Full Moon |
Kevin Henkes |
| 2004 |
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
Mordicai Gerstein |
| 2003 |
My Friend Rabbit |
Eric Rohmann |
| 2002 |
The Three Pigs |
David Wiesner |
| 2001 |
So You Want to Be President? |
illus. by David Small; text: Judith St. George |
| 2000 |
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat |
Simms Taback |
| 1999 |
Snowflake Bentley |
illus. by Mary Azarian; text: Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
| 1998 |
Rapunzel |
Paul O. Zelinsky |
| 1997 |
Golem |
David Wisniewski |
| 1996 |
Officer Buckle and Gloria |
Peggy Rathmann |
| 1995 |
Smoky Night |
illus. by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting |
| 1994 |
Grandfather's Journey |
Allen Say |
| 1993 |
Mirette on the High Wire |
Emily Arnold McCully |
| 1992 |
Tuesday |
David Wiesner |
| 1991 |
Black and White |
David Macaulay |
| 1990 |
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China |
Ed Young |
| 1989 |
Song and Dance Man |
illus. by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman |
| 1988 |
Owl Moon |
illus. by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen |
| 1987 |
Hey, Al |
illus. by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks |
| 1986 |
The Polar Express |
Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1985 |
Saint George and the Dragon |
illus. by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges |
| 1984 |
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot |
Alice & Martin Provensen |
| 1983 |
Shadow |
translated and illus. by Marcia Brown; original text in French: Blaise Cendrars |
| 1982 |
Jumanji |
Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1981 |
Fables |
Arnold Lobel |
| 1980 |
Ox-Cart Man |
illus. by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall |
| 1979 |
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses |
Paul Goble |
| 1978 |
Noah's Ark |
Peter Spier |
| 1977 |
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions |
illus. by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove |
| 1976 |
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
illus. by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema |
| 1975 |
Arrow to the Sun |
Gerald McDermott |
| 1974 |
Duffy and the Devil |
illus. by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach |
| 1973 |
The Funny Little Woman |
illus. by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel |
| 1972 |
One Fine Day |
retold and illus. by Nonny Hogrogian |
| 1971 |
A Story A Story |
retold and illus. by Gail E. Haley |
| 1970 |
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
William Steig |
| 1969 |
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship |
illus. by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome |
| 1968 |
Drummer Hoff |
illus. by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley |
| 1967 |
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine |
Evaline Ness |
| 1966 |
Always Room for One More |
illus. by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] |
| 1965 |
May I Bring a Friend? |
illus. by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers |
| 1964 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
Maurice Sendak |
| 1963 |
The Snowy Day |
Ezra Jack Keats |
| 1962 |
Once a Mouse |
retold and illus. by Marcia Brown |
| 1961 |
Baboushka and the Three Kings |
illus. by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins |
| 1960 |
Nine Days to Christmas |
illus. by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida |
| 1959 |
Chanticleer and the Fox |
illus. by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara
Cooney |
| 1958 |
Time of Wonder |
Robert McCloskey |
| 1957 |
Tree Is Nice |
illus. by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry |
| 1956 |
Frog Went A-Courtin' |
illus. by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff |
| 1955 |
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper |
illus. by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown |
| 1954 |
Madeline's Rescue |
Ludwig Bemelmans |
| 1953 |
The Biggest Bear |
Lynd Ward |
| 1952 |
Finders Keepers |
illus. by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] |
| 1951 |
The Egg Tree |
Katherine Milhous |
| 1950 |
Song of the Swallows |
Leo Politi |
| 1949 |
The Big Snow |
Berta & Elmer Hader |
| 1948 |
White Snow, Bright Snow |
illus. by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt |
| 1947 |
The Little Island |
illus. by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] |
| 1946 |
The Rooster Crows |
Maude & Miska Petersham |
| 1945 |
Prayer for a Child |
illus. by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field |
| 1944 |
Many Moons |
illus. by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber |
| 1943 |
The Little House |
Virginia Lee Burton |
| 1942 |
Make Way for Ducklings |
Robert McCloskey |
| 1941 |
They Were Strong and Good |
Robert Lawson |
| 1940 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire |
| 1939 |
Mei Li |
Thomas Handforth |
| 1938 |
Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book |
illus. by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish |
