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- 2022 David Bowles
- 2021 Eliot Schrefer
- 2019 Donna Jo Napoli
- 2018 Nnedi Okorafor
- 2017 Thanhha Lai
- 2016 Candace Fleming
- 2015 Pam Muñoz-Ryan
- 2014 Nancy Farmer
- 2013 Gene Luen Yang
- 2012 Mem Fox
- 2011 Joseph Bruchac
- 2010 Christopher Paul Curtis
- 2009 Susan Marie Swanson
- 2008 Joyce Sidman
- 2007 Catherine Thimmesh
- 2006 John Coy
- 2005 Mary Casanova
- 2004 Lise Lunge Larsen
- 2003 Kate Di Camillo
- 2002 Debra Fraser
- 2001 Patricia Polacco
- 2000 Jane Kurtz
- 1999 Wendell Minor
- 1998 Betty Ren Wright
- 1997 Karen Ritz
- 1996 Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
- 1995 Barbara Esbensen
- 1994 Eve Bunting
- 1993 Marion Dane Bauer
- 1992 Lawrence Yep
- 1991 Jane Resh Thomas
- 1990 Judy Delton
- 1989 Constance Greene
- 1988 Tomie de Paola
- 1987 Byrd Baylor
- 1986 Barbara Robinson
- 1985 Paula Fox
- 1984 Charlotte Zolotow
- 1983 Mary Rodgers
- 1982 Esther Hautzig
- 1981 Nat Hentoff
- 1980 Ashley Bryan
- 1979 Bette Greene
- 1978 Ellen Raskin
- 1977 Lillian Hoban
- 1976 James Houston
- 1975 Natalie Babbitt
- 1974 Jean Craighead George
- 1973 Gerald McDermott
- 1972 Beverly Cleary
- 1971 Lorenz Graham
- 1970 Ruth Christopher & Robert Carlsen
- 1969 Mary Stolz
- 1968 May McNeer and Lynd Ward
- 1967 Elizabeth Yates
- 1966 Ezra Jack Keats
- 1965 Carol Ryrie Brink
- 1964 Madeleine L’Engle
- 1963 Marguerite Henry
- 1962 Velma Varner, editor
- 1961 John Ciardi
- 1960 Natalie Savage Carlson
- 1959 Robert McCloskey
- 1958 Virginia Sorenson
- 1957 Phyllis Fenner
- 1956 May Hill Arbuthnot
- 1955 Walter S. Havighurst
- 1954 Martha Kiser
- 1953 Rebecca Caudill
- 1952 Marguerite Henry
- 1951 Clara Ingram Judson
- 1950 Howard Pease
- 1949 Marguerite Bro
- 1948 Maud Hart Lovelace
- 1947 Margaret C. Scoggin
- 1946 Florence Means
- 1945 Mary Gould Davis
- 1944 Vera Kelsey
- 1943 Bernice Leary
- 1942 Genevieve Foster
- 1941 Ruth Sawyer