| Year | Title | Author | Illustrator |
|---|
| 2009 |
The House in the Night |
Susan Marie Swanson |
| Beth Krommes
| 2008 |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
|
| 2007 |
Flotsam |
David Wiesner |
|
| 2006 |
The Hello, Goodbye Window |
Norton Juster |
Chris Raschka |
| 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? |
Judith St. George |
David Small |
| 2000 |
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat |
Simms Taback |
|
| 1999 |
Snowflake Bentley |
Jacqueline Briggs |
Mary Azarian |
| 1998 |
Rapunzel |
Paul O. Zelinsky |
|
| 1997 |
Golem |
David Wisniewski |
|
| 1996 |
Officer Buckle and Gloria |
Peggy Rathmann |
|
| 1995 |
Smoky Night |
Eve Bunting |
David Diaz |
| 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 |
Karen Ackerman |
Stephen Gammell |
| 1988 |
Owl Moon |
Jane Yolen |
John Schoenherr |
| 1987 |
Hey, Al |
Arthur Yorinks |
Richard Egielski |
| 1986 |
The Polar Express |
Chris Van Allsburg |
|
| 1985 |
Saint George and the Dragon |
Margaret Hodges |
Trina Schart Hyman |
| 1984 |
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot |
Alice & Martin Provensen |
|
| 1983 |
Shadow |
Blaise Cendrars |
Marcia Brown (also translator) |
| 1982 |
Jumanji |
Chris Van Allsburg |
|
| 1981 |
Fables |
Arnold Lobel |
|
| 1980 |
Ox-Cart Man |
Donald Hall |
Barbara Cooney |
| 1979 |
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses |
Paul Goble |
|
| 1978 |
Noah's Ark |
Peter Spier |
|
| 1977 |
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions |
Margaret Musgrove |
Leo & Diane Dillon |
| 1976 |
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
Verna Aardema |
Leo & Diane Dillon |
| 1975 |
Arrow to the Sun |
Gerald McDermott |
|
| 1974 |
Duffy and the Devil |
Harve Zemach |
Margot Zemach |
| 1973 |
The Funny Little Woman |
Arlene Mosel |
Blair Lent |
| 1972 |
One Fine Day |
Nonny Hogrogian |
|
| 1971 |
A Story A Story |
Gail E. Haley |
|
| 1970 |
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
William Steig |
|
| 1969 |
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship |
Arthur Ransome |
Uri Shulevitz |
| 1968 |
Drummer Hoff |
Barbara Emberley |
Ed Emberley |
| 1967 |
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine |
Evaline Ness |
|
| 1966 |
Always Room for One More |
Sorche Nic Leodhas (Leclair Alger) |
Nonny Hogrogian |
| 1965 |
May I Bring a Friend? |
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers |
Beni Montresor |
| 1964 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
Maurice Sendak |
|
| 1963 |
The Snowy Day |
Ezra Jack Keats |
|
| 1962 |
Once a Mouse |
Marcia Brown |
|
| 1961 |
Baboushka and the Three Kings |
Ruth Robbins |
Nicolas Sidjakov |
| 1960 |
Nine Days to Christmas |
Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida |
Marie Hall Ets |
| 1959 |
Chanticleer and the Fox (adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) |
Barbara Cooney |
|
| 1958 |
Time of Wonder |
Robert McCloskey |
|
| 1957 |
A Tree Is Nice |
Janice Udry |
Marc Simont |
| 1956 |
Frog Went A-Courtin' |
John Langstaff |
Feodor Rojankovsky |
| 1955 |
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper |
Charles Perrault |
Marcia Brown (also translator) |
| 1954 |
Madeline's Rescue |
Ludwig Bemelmans |
|
| 1953 |
The Biggest Bear |
Lynd Ward |
|
| 1952 |
Finders Keepers |
Will (William Lipkind) |
Nicolas (Nicholas Mordvinoff) |
| 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 |
Alvin Tresselt |
Roger Duvoisin |
| 1947 |
The Little Island |
Golden MacDonald (Margaret Wise Brown) |
Leonard Weisgard |
| 1946 |
The Rooster Crows |
Maude & Miska Petersham |
|
| 1945 |
Prayer for a Child |
Rachel Field |
Elizabeth Orton Jones |
| 1944 |
Many Moons |
James Thurber |
Louis Slobodkin |
| 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 |
Helen Dean Fish |
Dorothy P. Lathrop |
