Past Winners - click on cover for more . . .
Our Past Winners
(hyperlinks lead to nominees for that year)
2024 - New Dragon City, Mancusi, Mari
2023 - Alone, Freeman, Megan E.
2022 - Go With the Flow, Williams, Lily & Schneemann, Karen
2021 - Bloom, Oppel, Kenneth
2020 - Cardboard Kingdom, Sell, Chad
2019 - Mighty Jack, Hatke, Ben
2018 - The Wild Robot, Brown, Peter
2017 - Speechless, Mook-Sang, Jennifer
2016 - Game Over, Pete Watson Schreiber, Joe
2015 - Cartboy and the Time Capsule Campbell, L.A.
2014 - The One and Only Ivan Applegate, Katherine
2013 - Sidekicks Santat, Dan
2012 The Red Pyramid Riordan, Rick
2011 How to Steal a Dog O'Connor, Barbara
2010 Rapunzel's Revenge Hale, Shannon
2009 Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper Kibuishi, Kazu
2008 Stormbreaker Horowitz, Anthony
2007 Eragon Paolini, Christopher
2006 Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Byng, Georgia
2005 The Field Guide Black, Holly
2004 Artemis Fowl Colfer, Eoin
2003 Little Wolf's Book of Badness Whybrow, Ian
2002 The Breadwinner Ellis, Deborah
2001 Holes Sachar, Louis
2000 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rowling, J. K.
1999 Awake and Dreaming Pearson, Kit
1998 Poppy Avi
1997 Walk Two Moons Creech, Sharon
1996 The Giver Lowry, Lois
1995 The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade Wallace, Bill
1994 How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage? Bailey, Linda
1993 The Sky Is Falling Pearson, Kit
1992 Secret of the Cards Craddock, Sonia
1991 There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom Sachar, Louis
1990 Hatchet Paulsen, Gary
1989 Pop Bottles Roberts, Ken
1988 Sixth-Grade Sleepover Bunting, Eve
1987 Ralph S. Mouse Cleary, Beverly
1986 Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! Manes, Stephen
1985 The Secret of Spirit Mountain Olson, Helen Kronberg
1984 The Toothpaste Genie Duncan, Frances
1983 Ramona and Her Mother Cleary, Beverly
1982 Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood Conford, Ellen
1981 The Pinballs Byars, Betsy Cromer
1980 The Goof That Won the Pennant Kalb, Jonah
1979 Danny, the Champion of the World Dahl, Roald
1978 Freaky Friday Rodgers, Mary
1977 Me and My Little Brain Fitzgerald, John D.
1976 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Dahl, Roald
1975 The Mouse and the Motorcycle Cleary, Beverly
1974 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Roald
1973 Charlotte's Web White, E. B.
(hyperlinks lead to nominees for that year)
2024 - New Dragon City, Mancusi, Mari
2023 - Alone, Freeman, Megan E.
2022 - Go With the Flow, Williams, Lily & Schneemann, Karen
2021 - Bloom, Oppel, Kenneth
2020 - Cardboard Kingdom, Sell, Chad
2019 - Mighty Jack, Hatke, Ben
2018 - The Wild Robot, Brown, Peter
2017 - Speechless, Mook-Sang, Jennifer
2016 - Game Over, Pete Watson Schreiber, Joe
2015 - Cartboy and the Time Capsule Campbell, L.A.
2014 - The One and Only Ivan Applegate, Katherine
2013 - Sidekicks Santat, Dan
2012 The Red Pyramid Riordan, Rick
2011 How to Steal a Dog O'Connor, Barbara
2010 Rapunzel's Revenge Hale, Shannon
2009 Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper Kibuishi, Kazu
2008 Stormbreaker Horowitz, Anthony
2007 Eragon Paolini, Christopher
2006 Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Byng, Georgia
2005 The Field Guide Black, Holly
2004 Artemis Fowl Colfer, Eoin
2003 Little Wolf's Book of Badness Whybrow, Ian
2002 The Breadwinner Ellis, Deborah
2001 Holes Sachar, Louis
2000 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rowling, J. K.
1999 Awake and Dreaming Pearson, Kit
1998 Poppy Avi
1997 Walk Two Moons Creech, Sharon
1996 The Giver Lowry, Lois
1995 The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade Wallace, Bill
1994 How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage? Bailey, Linda
1993 The Sky Is Falling Pearson, Kit
1992 Secret of the Cards Craddock, Sonia
1991 There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom Sachar, Louis
1990 Hatchet Paulsen, Gary
1989 Pop Bottles Roberts, Ken
1988 Sixth-Grade Sleepover Bunting, Eve
1987 Ralph S. Mouse Cleary, Beverly
1986 Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! Manes, Stephen
1985 The Secret of Spirit Mountain Olson, Helen Kronberg
1984 The Toothpaste Genie Duncan, Frances
1983 Ramona and Her Mother Cleary, Beverly
1982 Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood Conford, Ellen
1981 The Pinballs Byars, Betsy Cromer
1980 The Goof That Won the Pennant Kalb, Jonah
1979 Danny, the Champion of the World Dahl, Roald
1978 Freaky Friday Rodgers, Mary
1977 Me and My Little Brain Fitzgerald, John D.
1976 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Dahl, Roald
1975 The Mouse and the Motorcycle Cleary, Beverly
1974 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Roald
1973 Charlotte's Web White, E. B.