For the best fiction book, the best nonfiction book, the best picture book (since 1982), and the best picture book text (since 1996); given by the Society for Children's Book Writers.
| 2005 | Fiction: A Room on Lorelei Street, by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Nonfiction: Children of The Great Depression, by Michael L. Cooper |
| Picture Book Text: Doña Flor, by Pat Mora (illus. Raul Colón) |
| Picture Book Illustration: Baby Bear's Chairs, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (author Jane Yolen) |
| 2004 | Fiction: Bucking The Sarge, by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Nonfiction: Dust To Eat: Drought And Depression In The 1930s, by Michael L. Cooper |
| Picture Book Text: Apples to Oregon, by Deborah Hopkinson (illus. Nancy Carpenter) |
| Picture Book Illustration: The Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson, by Jean Cassels |
| 2003 | Fiction: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli |
| Nonfiction: After The Last Dog Died: The True-Life, Hair-Raising Adventure Of Douglas Mawson And His 1911-1914 Antarctic Expedition, by Carmen Bredeson |
| Picture Book Text: The Dirty Cowboy, by Amy Timberlake (illus. Adam Rex) |
| Picture Book Illustration: I Dream Of Trains, by Loren Long (author Angela Johnson) |
| 2002 | Fiction: Fresh Girl, by Jaïra Placide |
| Nonfiction: This Land Was Made For You And Me: The Life And Songs Of Woody Guthrie, by Elizabeth Partridge |
| Picture Book Text: George Hogglesberry, Grade School Alien, by Sarah Wilson |
| Picture Book Illustration: Mrs. Biddlebox, by Marla Frazee |
| 2001 | Fiction: True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| Nonfiction: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| Picture Book Text: The Shoe Tree of Chagrin, by J. Patrick Lewis |
| Picture Book Illustration: The Lamp, The Ice, And The Boat Called Fish, by Beth Krommes |
| 2000 | Fiction: The Boxer, by Kathleen Karr |
| Nonfiction: Darkness over Denmark, by Ellen Levine |
| Picture Book Text: River Friendly, River Wild, by Jane Kurtz |
| Picture Book Illustration: The Rain Came Down, by David Shannon |
| 1999 | Fiction: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Nonfiction: Space station Science: Life in Free Fall, by Marianne J. Dyson |
| Picture Book Text: A Band of Angels, by Deborah Hopkinson |
| Picture Book Illustration: The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza), by Amy Wolrod |
| 1998 | Fiction: Rules of the Road, by Joan Bauer |
| Nonfiction: Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, by Russell Freedman |
| Picture Book Text: Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems, by Kristine O'Connell George |
| Picture Book Illustration: Snow, by Uri Shulevitz |
| 1997 | Fiction: Stones in Water, by Donna Jo Napoli |
| Nonfiction: Carmine's Story: A Book About a Boy Living With AIDS, by Arlene Schulman |
| Picture Book Text: The Paper Dragon, by Marguerite W. Davol |
| Picture Book Illustration: The Paper Dragon, by Robert Sabuda |
| 1996 | Fiction: The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw |
| Nonfiction: Small Steps, by Peg Kehret |
| Picture Book Text: Saving Sweetness, by Diane Stanley |
| Picture Book Illustration: Market Day, by Holly Berry |
| 1995 | Fiction: The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Nonfiction: Abigail Adams, by Natalie S. Bober |
| Picture Book Illustration: Fairy Wings, by Dennis Nolan and Lauren Mills |
| 1994 | Fiction: Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman |
| Nonfiction: Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, by Russell Freedman |
| Picture Book Illustration: Big Fat Hen, by Keith Baker |
| 1993 | Fiction: Make Lemonade, by Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| Nonfiction: Eleanor Roosevelt, by Russell Freedman |
| Picture Book Illustration: By the Light of the Halloween Moon, by Kevin Hawkes |
| 1992 | Fiction: Letters From a Slave Girl, by Mary E. Lyons |
| Nonfiction: The Long Road to Gettysburg, by Jim Murphy |
| Picture Book Illustration: Chicken Sunday, by Patricia Polacco |
| 1991 | Fiction: The Raincatchers, by Jean Thesman |
| Nonfiction: The Wright Brothers, by Russell Freedman |
| Picture Book Illustration: Mama, Do You Love Me, by Barbara Lavallee |
| 1990 | Fiction: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi |
| Nonfiction: The Boy's War, by Jim Murphy |
| Picture Book Illustration: Home Place, by Jerry Pinkney |
| 1989 | Fiction: Jenny of the Tetons, by Kristiana Gregory |
| Nonfiction: Panama Canal: Gateway to the World, by Judith St. George |
| Picture Book Illustration: Tom Thumb, by Richard Jesse Watson |
| 1988 | Fiction: Borrowed Children, by George Ella Lyon |
| Nonfiction: Let There Be Light, by James Cross Giblin |
| Picture Book Illustration: Forest of Dreams, by Susan Jeffers |
| 1987 | Fiction: Rabble Stareky, by Lois Lowry |
| Nonfiction: Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark, by Rhoda Blumberg |
| Picture Book Illustration: What the Mailman Brought, by Tomie DePaola |
| 1986 | Fiction: After the Dancing Days, by Margaret Rostowski |
| Nonfiction: Poverty in America, by Milton Meltzer |
| Picture Book Illustration: Juma and the Magin Jinn, by Charles Mikolaycak |
| 1985 | Fiction: Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan |
| Nonfiction: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, by Rhoda Blumberg |
| Picture Book Illustration: The Donkey's Dream, by Barbara Helen Berger |
| 1984 | Fiction: Tancy, by Belinda Hurmence |
| Nonfiction: Walls: Defenses Throughout History, by James Cross Giblin |
| Picture Book Illustration: Little Red Riding Hood, by Don Wood |
| 1983 | Fiction: The Tempering, by Gloria Skurzynski |
| Nonfiction: The Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary, by Helen Roney Sattler |
| Picture Book Illustration: Little Red Riding Hood, by Trina Schart Hyman |
| 1982 | Fiction: Ralph S. Mouse, by Beverly Cleary |
| Nonfiction: Chimney Sweeps, by James Cross Giblin |
| Picture Book Illustration: Giorgio's Village, by Tomie de Paola |
| 1981 | Fiction: Little, Little, by M. E. Kerr |
| Nonfiction: Blissymbolics, by Elizabeth Helfman |
| 1980 | Fiction: Arthur, For the Very First Time, by Patricia MacLachlan |
| Nonfiction: The Lives of Spiders, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
| 1979 | Fiction: The Magic of the Gluts, by Carole S. Adler |
| Nonfiction: Runaway Teens, by Arnold Madison |
| 1978 | Fiction: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, by Stella Pevsner |
| Nonfiction: How I Came to Be a Writer, by Phyllis Reynolds |
| 1977 | Fiction: The Girl Who Had No Name, by Bernice Rabe |
| Nonfiction: Peeper, First Voice of Spring, by Robert McClung |
| 1976 | One More Flight, by Eve Bunting |
| 1975 | The Garden Is Doing Fine, by Carol Farley |
| 1974 | Fiction: The Girl Who Cried Flowers, by Jane Yolen |
| Nonfiction: Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green |
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