| 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 |
Mary Azarian |
Snowflake Bentley |
| 1998 |
Paul O. Zelinsky |
Rapunzel |
| 1997 |
David Wisniewski |
Golem |
| 1996 |
Peggy Rathmann |
Officer Buckle and Gloria |
| 1995 |
David Diaz |
Smoky Night |
| 1994 |
Allen Say |
Grandfather's Journey |
| 1993 |
Emily Arnold McCully |
Mirette on the High Wire |
| 1992 |
David Wiesner |
Tuesday |
| 1991 |
David Macaulay |
Black and White |
| 1990 |
Ed Young |
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China |
| 1989 |
Stephen Gammell |
Song and Dance Man |
| 1988 |
John Schoenherr |
Owl Moon |
| 1987 |
Richard Egielski |
Hey, Al |
| 1986 |
Chris Van Allsburg |
The Polar Express |
| 1985 |
Trina Schart Hyman |
Saint George and the Dragon |
| 1984 |
Alice e Martin Provensen |
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot |
| 1983 |
Marcia Brown |
Shadow |
| 1982 |
Chris Van Allsburg |
Jumanji |
| 1981 |
Arnold Lobel |
Fables |
| 1980 |
Barbara Cooney |
Ox-Cart Man |
| 1979 |
Paul Goble |
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses |
| 1978 |
Peter Spier |
Noah's Ark |
| 1977 |
Leo and Diane Dillon |
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions |
| 1976 |
Leo and 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 Emberley |
Drummer Hoff |
| 1967 |
Evaline Ness |
Sam, Bangs, and 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 Ward |
The Biggest Bear |
| 1952 |
Nicholas Mordvinoff |
Finders Keepers |
| 1951 |
Katherine Milhous |
The Egg Tree |
| 1950 |
Leo Politi |
Song of the Swallows |
| 1949 |
Berta and Elmer Hader |
The Big Snow |
| 1948 |
Roger Duvoisin |
White Snow, Bright Snow |
| 1947 |
Leonard Weisgard |
The Little Island |
| 1946 |
Maud e 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 e Edgar Parin d'Aulaire |
Abraham Lincoln |
| 1939 |
Thomas Handforth |
Mei Li |
| 1938 |
Dorothy P. Lathrop |
Animals of the Bible |
