Award Title |
Award Year |
Award Distinction |
Book Title (Year Published) |
Author |
Illustrator |
Publisher |
Children's Book Award |
1943 |
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Keystone Kids (1943) |
John R. Tunis |
|
Harcourt Brace |
1944 |
|
The House (1944) |
Marjorie Hill Allee |
Helen Blair |
Houghton Mifflin |
1945 |
|
The Moved-Outers (1945) |
Florence Cranell Means |
|
Houghton Mifflin |
1946 |
|
Heart of Danger (1946) |
Howard Pease |
|
Doubleday |
1947 |
|
Judy's Journey (1947) |
Lois Lenski |
|
J. B. Lippincott & Co. |
1948 |
|
The Big Wave (1948) |
Pearl S. Buck |
Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai |
John Day Company |
1949 |
|
Paul Tiber: Forester (1949) |
Maria Gleit |
Ralph Ray |
Charles Scribner's Sons |
1950 |
|
Partners: The United Nations and Youth (1950) |
Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris |
|
Junior Literary Guild/Doubleday |
1951 |
No Award |
1952 |
|
Jareb (1952) |
Miriam Powell |
Marc Simont |
Thomas Y. Crowell |
|
Twenty and Ten (1952); later republished with minor edits as The Secret Cave (1969, 1973 Scholastic)[4] |
Claire Huchet Bishop |
William Pène du Bois |
Puffin |
1953 |
|
In a Mirror (1953) |
Mary Stolz |
|
Harper |
1954 |
|
High Road Home (1954) |
William Corbin |
|
Coward-McCann/Junior Literary Guild |
|
The Ordeal of the Young Hunter (1954) |
Jonreed Lauritzen |
Hoke Denetsosie |
Little, Brown and Company |
1955 |
|
Crow Boy |
Taro Yashima |
|
|
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Plain Girl |
Virginia Sorenson |
|
|
1956 |
|
The House of Sixty Fathers |
Meindert DeJong |
Maurice Sendak |
Harper & Row |
1957 |
|
Shadow Across the Campus |
Helen Roney Sattley |
|
Dodd Mead |
1958 |
|
South Town |
Lorenz Graham |
|
|
1959 |
|
Jennifer |
Zoa Sherburne |
|
|
1960 |
|
Janine |
Robin McKown |
|
Messner |
1961 |
Winner |
The Road to Agra (translated from Norwegian by Evelyn Ramsden) |
Aimee Sommerfelt |
Ulf Aas |
Criterion |
Special Citation |
The Girl From Puerto Rico |
Hila Colman |
|
|
1962 |
|
The Trouble With Terry |
John Lexau |
|
|
1963 |
Winner |
The Peaceable Revolution |
Betty Schechter |
|
|
Special Citation |
The Rock and the Willow |
Mildred Lee |
|
|
1964 |
|
The High Pasture |
Ruth Peabody Harnden |
Vee Guthrie |
|
1965 |
|
The Empty Schoolhouse |
Natalie Savage Carlson |
John Kauffman |
|
1966 |
Winner |
Queenie Peavy |
Robert Burch |
|
|
Special Citation |
Curious George Goes to the Hospital |
Margret Rey and H.A. Rey |
Margret Rey and H.A. Rey |
Houghton Mifflin |
1967 |
|
The Contender |
Robert Lipsyte |
|
|
1968 |
Winner |
What It's All About (translated from Russian by Joseph Barnes) |
Vadim Frolic |
|
Macmillan |
Special Citation |
Where's Daddy? A Story about Divorce |
Beth Goff |
Susan Perl |
Beacon Press |
1969 |
|
The Empty Moat |
Margaretha Shemin |
|
Coward-McCann |
1970 |
|
Migrant Girl |
Carli Laklan |
|
|
|
Rock Star |
James Lincoln Collier |
|
|
1971 |
Winner |
John Henry McCoy |
Lillie D. Chaffin |
Emanuel Schongut |
|
Special Citation |
The Pair of Shoes |
Aline Glasgow |
Symeon Shimin |
Dial BFYR |
1972 |
|
A Sound of Chariots |
Mollie Hunter |
|
|
1973 |
|
A Taste of Blackberries |
Doris Buchanan Smith |
|
|
1974 |
|
Luke Was There |
Eleanor Clymer |
Diane DeGroat |
|
1975 |
|
The Garden is Doing Fine |
Carol Farley |
Lynn Sweat |
|
1976 |
|
Somebody Else's Child |
Roberta Silman |
Chris Conover |
|
1977 |
|
The Pinballs |
Betsy Byars |
|
|
1978 |
|
The Devil in Vienna |
Doris Orgel |
|
|
1979 |
|
The Whipman is Watching |
T.A. Dyer |
|
|
1980 |
|
A Boat to Nowhere |
Maureen Wartski |
|
|
1981 |
|
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind |
Athena Lord |
|
|
1982 |
|
Homesick: My Own Story |
Jean Fritz |
Margot Tomes |
Putnam |
1983 |
Winner |
The Sign of the Beaver |
Elizabeth George Speare |
|
|
Special Citation |
The Solomon System |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
|
|
1984 |
|
One-Eyed Cat |
Paula Fox |
|
|
1985 |
Winner |
With Westie and the Tin Man |
C.S. Adler |
|
Macmillan |
Special Citation |
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers |
Milton Meltzer |
|
Harper and Row |
1986 |
|
Journey to Jo'burg |
Beverley Naidoo |
|
|
1987 |
|
Rabble Starkey |
Lois Lowry |
|
|
1988 |
Winner |
The Most Beautiful Place in the World |
Ann Cameron |
Thomas Allen |
Knopf |
Special Citation |
December Stillness |
Mary Downing Hahn |
|
|
1989 |
|
Shades of Gray |
Carolyn Reeder |
|
|
1990 |
|
Secret City, USA |
Felice Holman |
|
|
1991 |
|
Shadow Boy |
Susan E. Kirby |
|
|
1992 |
|
Blue Skin of the Sea |
Graham Salisbury |
|
|
1993 |
|
Make Lemonade |
Virginia Euwer Wolff |
|
|
1994 |
|
Earthshine |
Theresa Nelson |
|
|
1995 |
Winner |
Music from a Place Called Half Moon |
Jerrie Oughton |
|
|
Special Citation |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
|
Delacorte Press |
1996 |
|
The Cuckoo's Child |
Suzanne Freeman |
|
|
Josette Frank Award |
1997 |
|
No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa |
Beverley Naidoo |
|
|
1998 |
|
My Louisiana Sky |
Kimberly Willis Holt |
|
|
1999 |
|
|
|
|
|
2000 |
|
Figuring Out Frances |
Gina Willner-Pardo |
|
|
2001 |
|
Because of Winn-Dixie |
Kate DiCamillo |
|
|
2002 |
|
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart |
Vera B. Williams |
|
|
2003 |
Winner |
Goddess of Yesterday |
Caroline B. Cooney |
|
|
Special Citation |
Jericho Walls |
Kristi Collier |
|
|
2004 |
|
The Goose Girl |
Shannon Hale |
|
|
2005 |
|
Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World |
Katherine Hannigan |
|
|
2006 |
|
Each Little Bird That Sings |
Deborah Wiles |
|
|
2007 |
Winner |
Clementine |
Sara Pennypacker |
Marla Frazee |
|
Special Citation |
The Manny Files |
Christian Burch |
|
|
2008 |
|
Home of the Brave |
Katherine Applegate |
|
|
2009 |
|
After Tupac and D Foster |
Jacqueline Woodson |
|
|
2010 |
Winner |
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
Jacqueline Kelly |
|
|
Special Citation |
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon |
Grace Lin |
|
|
2011 |
|
Out of My Mind |
Sharon Draper |
|
|
2012 |
|
Bluefish |
Pat Schmatz |
|
|
2013 |
|
Wonder |
R. J. Palacio |
|
|
2014 |
|
Rose Under Fire |
Elizabeth Wein |
|
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
2015 |
for younger readers |
Rain Reign |
Ann M. Martin |
|
Feiwel & Friends |
for older readers |
I'll Give You the Sun |
Jandy Nelson |
|
Dial BFYR |
2016 |
|
The War That Saved My Life (2015) |
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
|
Dial BFYR |
2017 |
|
The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones (2016) |
Wendelin van Draanen |
|
Knopf Books for Young Readers |
2018 |
|
Piecing Me Together (2017) |
Renée Watson |
|
Bloomsbury USA Children's |
2019 |
|
A Heart in a Body in the World (2018) |
Deb Caletti |
|
Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
2020 |
|
When the Ground is Hard (2019) |
Malla Nunn |
|
GP Putnams and Sons |
2021 |
|
When Stars Are Scattered (2020) |
Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed |
Victoria Jamieson (illustrator) and Imam Geddy (color) |
Dial BFYR |
2022 |
for younger readers |
Milo Imagines the World (2021) |
Matt de la Peña |
Christian Robinson |
GP Putnams and Sons |
for older readers |
Firekeeper's Daughter (2021) |
Angeline Boulley |
|
Macmillan |
2023 |
|
I Must Betray You (2022) |
Ruta Sepetys |
|
Philomel |