Year
|
Category
|
Title
|
Writer
|
Illustrator
|
Ref.
|
1967
|
Fiction
|
The Little Fishes
|
Erik Christian Haugaard
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
London Bridge Is Falling Down
|
Peter Spier
|
Peter Spier
|
|
1968
|
Fiction
|
The Spring Rider
|
John Lawson
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Tikki Tikki Tembo
|
Arlene Mosel
|
Blair Lent
|
|
1969
|
Fiction
|
A Wizard of Earthsea
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Adventures of Paddy Pork
|
John S. Goodall
|
John S. Goodall
|
|
1970
|
Fiction
|
The Intruder
|
John Rowe Townsend
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Hi, Cat!
|
Ezra Jack Keats
|
Ezra Jack Keats
|
|
1971
|
Fiction
|
A Room Made of Windows
|
Eleanor Cameron
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
If I Built a Village . . .
|
Kazue Mizumura
|
Kazue Mizumura
|
|
1972
|
Fiction
|
Tristan and Iseult
|
Rosemary Sutcliff
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Mr. Gumpy's Outing
|
John Burningham
|
John Burningham
|
|
1973
|
Fiction
|
The Dark Is Rising
|
Susan Cooper
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
King Stork
|
Howard Pyle
|
Trina Schart Hyman
|
|
1974
|
Fiction
|
M. C. Higgins, the Great
|
Virginia Hamilton
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Jambo Means Hello
|
Muriel Feelings
|
Tom Feelings
|
|
1975
|
Fiction
|
Transport 7-41-R
|
T. Degens
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Anno's Alphabet
|
Mitsumasa Anno
|
Mitsumasa Anno
|
|
1976
|
Fiction
|
Unleaving
|
Jill Paton Walsh
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Voyaging to Cathay
|
Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Thirteen
|
Remy Charlip
|
Jerry Joyner
|
|
1977
|
Fiction
|
Child of the Owl
|
Laurence Yep
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Chance, Luck and Destiny
|
Peter Dickinson
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Granfa' Grig Had a Pig
|
Wallace Tripp
|
Wallace Tripp
|
|
Special Citation
|
The Changing City and The Changing Countryside
|
Jorg Mueller
|
|
|
1978
|
Fiction
|
The Westing Game
|
Ellen Raskin
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Mischling, Second Degree
|
Ilse Koehn
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Anno's Journey
|
Mitsumasa Anno
|
Mitsumasa Anno
|
|
1979
|
Fiction
|
Humbug Mountain
|
Sid Fleischman
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Road from Home
|
David Kherdian
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Snowman
|
Raymond Briggs
|
Raymond Briggs
|
|
1980
|
Fiction
|
Conrad's War
|
Andrew Davies
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Building: The Fight Against Gravity
|
Mario Salvadori
|
Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
|
Chris Van Allsburg
|
Chris Van Allsburg
|
|
Special Citation
|
Graham Oakley's Magical Changes
|
Graham Oakley
|
|
|
1981
|
Fiction
|
The Leaving
|
Lynn Hall
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Weaver's Gift
|
Kathryn Lasky
|
Christopher G. Knight
|
|
Picture Book
|
Outside Over There
|
Maurice Sendak
|
Maurice Sendak
|
|
1982
|
Fiction
|
Playing Beatie Bow
|
Ruth Park
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Upon the Head of the Goat
|
Aranka Siegal
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
|
Nancy Willard
|
Alice and Martin Provensen
|
|
1983
|
Fiction
|
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
|
Virginia Hamilton
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Behind Barbed Wire
|
Daniel S. Davis
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
A Chair for My Mother
|
Vera B. Williams
|
Vera B. Williams
|
[7]
|
1984
|
Fiction
|
A Little Fear
|
Patricia Wrightson
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Double Life of Pocahontas
|
Jean Fritz
|
Ed Young
|
|
Picture Book
|
Jonah and the Great Fish
|
Warwick Hutton
|
Warwick Hutton
|
|
1985
|
Fiction
|
The Moves Make the Man
|
Bruce Brooks
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
|
Rhoda Blumberg
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Mama Don't Allow
|
Thacher Hurd
|
Thacher Hurd
|
|
Special Citation
|
1,2,3
|
Tana Hoban
|
Tana Hoban
|
|
1986
|
Fiction
|
In Summer Light
|
Zibby Oneal
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur
|
Peggy Thomson
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Paper Crane
|
Molly Bang
|
Molly Bang
|
|
1987
|
Fiction
|
Rabble Starkey
|
Lois Lowry
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Pilgrims of Plimoth
|
Marcia Sewall
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
|
John Steptoe
|
John Steptoe
|
|
1988
|
Fiction
|
The Friendship
|
Mildred D. Taylor
|
Max Ginsburg
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
|
Virginia Hamilton
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
|
Dianne Snyder
|
Allen Say
|
|
1989
|
Fiction
|
The Village by the Sea
|
Paula Fox
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Way Things Work
|
David Macaulay
|
David Macaulay
|
|
Picture Book
|
Shy Charles
|
Rosemary Wells
|
Rosemary Wells
|
|
1990
|
Fiction
|
Maniac Magee
|
Jerry Spinelli
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Great Little Madison
|
Jean Fritz
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
|
Ed Young
|
Ed Young
|
|
Special Citation
|
Valentine and Orson
|
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
|
|
|
1991
|
Fiction
|
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
|
Avi
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
|
Cynthia Rylant
|
Barry Moser
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
|
Katherine Paterson
|
Leo and Diane Dillon
|
|
1992
|
Fiction
|
Missing May
|
Cynthia Rylant
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Talking with Artists
|
Pat Cummings
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Seven Blind Mice
|
Ed Young
|
Ed Young
|
|
1993
|
Fiction
|
Ajeemah and His Son
|
James Berry
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
|
Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick McKissack
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Fortune Tellers
|
Lloyd Alexander
|
Trina Schart Hyman
|
|
1994
|
Fiction
|
Scooter
|
Vera B. Williams
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
|
Russell Freedman
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Grandfather's Journey
|
Allen Say
|
Allen Say
|
|
1995
|
Fiction
|
Some of the Kinder Planets
|
Tim Wynne-Jones
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
|
Natalie S. Bober
|
|
[8]
|
Picture Book
|
John Henry
|
Julius Lester
|
Jerry Pinkney
|
|
1996
|
Fiction
|
Poppy
|
Avi
|
Brian Floca
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story
|
Andrea Warren
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
In the Rain with Baby Duck
|
Amy Hest
|
Jill Barton
|
|
1997
|
Fiction
|
The Friends
|
Kazumi Yumoto with Cathy Hirano (trans.)
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
|
Walter Wick
|
Walter Wick
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Adventures of Sparrowboy
|
Brian Pinkney
|
|
|
1998
|
Fiction
|
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
|
Francisco Jiménez
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Leon’s Story
|
Leon Walter Tillage
|
Susan L. Roth
|
|
Picture Book
|
And If the Moon Could Talk
|
Kate Banks
|
Georg Hallensleben
|
|
1999
|
Fiction
|
Holes
|
Louis Sachar
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
|
Steve Jenkins
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
|
Joy Cowley
|
Nic Bishop
|
|
Special Citation
|
Tibet: Through the Red Box
|
Peter Sís
|
|
|
2000
|
Fiction
|
The Folk Keeper
|
Franny Billingsley
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
|
Marc Aronson
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
|
D. B. Johnson
|
D. B. Johnson
|
|
2001
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
Carver: A Life in Poems
|
Marilyn Nelson
|
|
[9]
|
Nonfiction
|
The Longitude Prize
|
Joan Dash
|
Dušan Petričić
|
|
Picture Book
|
Cold Feet
|
Cynthia DeFelice
|
Robert Andrew Parker
|
|
2002
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
Lord of the Deep
|
Graham Salisbury
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
|
Elizabeth Partridge
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
“Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate
|
Bob Graham
|
Bob Graham
|
|
2003
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Jamie and Angus Stories
|
Anne Fine
|
Penny Dale
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
|
Maira Kalman
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Big Momma Makes the World
|
Phyllis Root
|
Helen Oxenbury
|
|
2004
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Fire-Eaters
|
David Almond
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
|
Jim Murphy
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
|
Mordicai Gerstein
|
Mordicai Gerstein
|
|
2005
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Schwa Was Here
|
Neal Shusterman
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
|
Phillip Hoose
|
|
|
Picture Book
|
Traction Man Is Here!
|
Mini Grey
|
Mini Grey
|
|
2006
|
Picture Book
|
Leaf Man
|
Lois Ehlert
|
Lois Ehlert
|
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
|
Kate DiCamillo
|
Bagram Ibatoulline
|
|
Nonfiction
|
If You Decide to Go to the Moon
|
Faith McNulty
|
Steven Kellogg
|
|
2007
|
Picture Book
|
Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories
|
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
|
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
|
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
|
M. T. Anderson
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr
|
Nicolas Debon
|
Nicolas Debon
|
|
2008
|
Picture Book
|
At Night
|
Jonathan Bean
|
Jonathan Bean
|
[10]
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
|
Sherman Alexie
|
Ellen Forney
|
[10]
|
Nonfiction
|
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
|
Peter Sís
|
Peter Sís
|
[10]
|
2009
|
Picture Book
|
Bubble Trouble
|
Margaret Mahy
|
Polly Dunbar
|
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
Nation
|
Terry Pratchett
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
|
Candace Fleming
|
|
|
2010
|
Picture Book
|
I Know Here
|
Laurel Croza
|
Matt James
|
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
When You Reach Me
|
Rebecca Stead
|
|
[11]
|
Nonfiction
|
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
|
Elizabeth Partridge
|
|
|
2011
|
Picture Book
|
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
|
Salley Mavor
|
Salley Mavor
|
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
Blink & Caution
|
Tim Wynne-Jones
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery
|
Steve Sheinkin
|
|
|
2012
|
Picture Book
|
Extra Yarn
|
Mac Barnett
|
Jon Klassen
|
[12]
|
Fiction
|
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
|
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
|
R. Gregory Christie
|
[12]
|
Nonfiction
|
Chuck Close: Face Book
|
Chuck Close with others
|
Chuck Close
|
[12]
|
2013
|
Picture Book
|
Open This Little Book
|
Jesse Klausmeier
|
Suzy Lee
|
[13]
|
Picture Book
|
Building Our House
|
Jonathan Bean
|
Jonathan Bean
|
[13]
|
Fiction
|
Eleanor & Park
|
Rainbow Rowell
|
|
[13]
|
Nonfiction
|
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
|
Robert Byrd
|
Robert Byrd
|
[13]
|
2014
|
Picture Book
|
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
|
Peter Brown
|
Peter Brown
|
[14]
|
Fiction
|
Grasshopper Jungle
|
Andrew A. Smith
|
|
[14]
|
Nonfiction
|
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
|
Steve Sheinkin
|
|
[14]
|
2015
|
Picture Book
|
The Farmer and the Clown
|
Marla Frazee
|
|
|
Fiction
|
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
|
Katherine Rundell
|
|
|
Nonfiction
|
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
|
Candace Fleming
|
|
|
2016
|
Picture Book
|
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
|
Roxane Orgill
|
|
[15]
|
Fiction
|
The Lie Tree
|
Frances Hardinge
|
|
[15]
|
Nonfiction
|
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
|
Steve Sheinkin
|
|
[15]
|
2017
|
Picture Book
|
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
|
Ashley Bryan
|
Ashley Bryan
|
[16]
|
Fiction
|
The Hate U Give
|
Angie Thomas
|
|
[16]
|
Nonfiction
|
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
|
Deborah Heiligman
|
|
[16]
|
2018
|
Picture Book
|
They Say Blue
|
Jillian Tamaki
|
Jillian Tamaki
|
[17]
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Poet X
|
Elizabeth Acevedo
|
|
[17]
|
Nonfiction
|
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
|
Isabel Quintero
|
Zeke Peña
|
[17]
|
2019
|
Picture Book
|
The Patchwork Bike
|
Maxine Beneba Clarke
|
Van T. Rudd
|
[18][19][20]
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
The Season of Styx Malone
|
Kekla Magoon
|
|
[18][20]
|
Nonfiction
|
This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
|
Jo Ann Allen and Debbie Levy
|
|
[18][20]
|
2020
|
Picture Book
|
Saturday
|
Oge Mora
|
|
[21]
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
King and the Dragonflies
|
Kacen Callender
|
|
[21]
|
Nonfiction
|
Infinite Hope
|
Ashley Bryan
|
|
[21]
|
2021
|
Picture Book
|
I Talk Like a River
|
Jordan Scott
|
Sydney Smith
|
[22]
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
A Sitting in St. James
|
Rita Williams-Garcia
|
|
[22]
|
Nonfiction
|
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
|
Paula Yoo
|
|
[22]
|
2022
|
Picture Book
|
Ain't Burned All the Bright
|
Jason Reynolds
|
Jason Griffin
|
[23]
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
All My Rage
|
Sabaa Tahir
|
|
[23]
|
Nonfiction
|
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
|
Brandy Colbert
|
|
[23]
|
2023
|
Picture Book
|
When You Can Swim
|
Jack Wong
|
|
[24]
|
Fiction and Poetry
|
Warrior Girl Unearthed
|
Angeline Boulley
|
|
Nonfiction
|
Sunshine
|
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
|
|