| 2018 | Wolf in the Snow written and illustrated Matthew Cordell |
| 2017 | Radiant Child: The Story of the Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat written and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe |
| 2016 | Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear written by Lindsay Mattick; illustrated by Sophei Blackall |
| 2015 | The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat |
| 2014 | Locomotive by Brian Floca |
| 2013 | This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen |
| 2012 | A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka |
| 2011 | A Sick Day for Amos McGee written by Phillip C. Stead, Illustrated by Erin E. Stead |
| 2010 | The Lion & the Mouse written and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney |
| 2009 | House in the Night written by Susan Swanson, Illustrated by Beth Krommies |
| 2008 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick |
| 2007 | Flotsam by David Weisner |
| 2006 | The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster |
| 2005 | Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes |
| 2004 | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein |
| 2003 | My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann |
| 2002 | The Three Pigs by David Wiesner |
| 2001 | So You Want to be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George |
| 2000 |
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback |
| 1999 | Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline B. Martin, illustrated by Mary Azarian |
| 1998 | Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky |
| 1997 | Golem by David Wisniewski |
| 1996 | Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann |
| 1995 | Smoky Night illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting |
| 1994 | Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine |
| 1993 | Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully |
| 1992 | Tuesday by David Wiesner |
| 1991 | Black and White by David Macaulay |
| 1990 | Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young |
| 1989 | Son and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman |
| 1988 | Owl Moon by Jane Yolen |
| 1987 | Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks |
| 1986 | The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1985 | Saint George and the Dragon illustrated by Trina Shart Hyman; text retold by Margaret Hodges |
| 1984 | The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice and Martin Provensen |
| 1983 | Shadow by Blaise Cendrars |
| 1982 | Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1981 | Fables by Arnold Lobel |
| 1980 | Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall |
| 1979 | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble |
| 1978 | Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier |
| 1977 | Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove |
| 1976 | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Verna Aardema |
| 1975 | Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott |
| 1974 | Duffy and the Devil by Harve Zemach |
| 1973 | The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel |
| 1972 | One Fine Dav by Nonny Hogrogian |
| 1971 | A Story, A Story by Gail E. Haley |
| 1970 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig |
| 1969 | T he Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Arthur Ransome |
| 1968 | Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley |
| 1967 | Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness |
| 1966 | Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas |
| 1965 | May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers |
| 1964 | Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
| 1963 | The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats |
| 1962 | Once a Mouse… by Marcia Brown |
| 1961 | Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins |
| 1960 | Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida |
| 1959 | Chanticleer and the Fox adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Caterbury Tales by Barabara Cooney |
| 1958 | Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey |
| 1957 | A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry |
| 1956 | Frog Went A-Courtin’ by John Langstaff |
| 1955 | Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brownpp |
| 1954 | No Award |
| 1953 | The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward |
| 1952 | Finders Keepers by Will, pseud.[William Lipkind] |
| 1951 | The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous |
| 1950 | Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi |
| 1949 | The Big Snow by Berta Hader |
| 1948 | White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt |
| 1947 | The Little Island illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud [Margaret Wise Brown] |
| 1946 | The Rooster Crows by Maud and Miska Petersham |
| 1945 | Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field |
| 1944 | Many Moons by James Thurber |
| 1943 | The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton |
| 1942 | Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey |
| 1941 | They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson |
| 1940 | Abraham Lincoln by Ingria Edgar Parin d’AuLaire |
| 1939 | Mei Li by Thomas Handforth |
| 1938 | Animals of the Bible, a Picture Book |
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