Year Illustrator Book Citation

1938 Dorothy P. Lathrop Animals of the Bible Winner

1938 Robert Lawson Four and Twenty Blackbirds Honor

1938 Boris Artzybasheff Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale Honor

1939 Thomas Handforth Mei Li Winner

1939 James Daugherty Andy and the Lion Honor

1939 Clare Turlay Newberry Barkis Honor

1939 Laura Adams Armer The Forest Pool Honor

1939 Wanda Gág Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Honor

1939 Robert Lawson Wee Gillis Honor

1940 Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Abraham Lincoln Winner

1940 Berta and Elmer Hader Cock-a-Doodle Doo Honor

1940 Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline Honor

1940 Lauren Ford The Ageless Story Honor

1941 Robert Lawson They Were Strong and Good Winner

1941 Holling C. Holling Paddle-to-the-Sea Honor

1941 Clare Turlay Newberry April's Kittens Honor

1942 Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings Winner

1942 Maud and Miska Petersham

An American ABC Honor

1942 Velino Herrera In My Mother's House Honor

1942 Wanda Gág Nothing At All Honor

1943 Virginia Lee Burton The Little House Winner

1943 Mary and Conrad Buff Dash and Dart Honor

1943 Clare Turlay Newberry Marshmallow Honor

1944 Louis Slobodkin Many Moons Winner

1944 Elizabeth Orton Jones Small Rain: Verses From The Bible Honor

1944 Arnold E. Bare Pierre Pidgeon Honor

1944 Berta and Elmer Hader The Mighty Hunter Honor

1944 Jean Charlot A Child's Good Night Book Honor

1944 Plato Chan Good-Luck Horse Honor

1945 Elizabeth Orton Jones Prayer for a Child Winner

1945 Tasha Tudor Mother Goose Honor

1945 Marie Hall Ets In the Forest Honor

1945 Marguerite de Angeli Yonie Wondernose Honor

1945 Kate Seredy The Christmas Anna Angel Honor

1946 Maud and Miska Petersham

The Rooster Crows Winner

1946 Leonard Weisgard Little Lost Lamb Honor

1946 Marjorie Torrey Sing Mother Goose Honor

1946 Ruth Gannett My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Honor

1946 Kurt Wiese You Can Write Chinese Honor

1947 Leonard Weisgard The Little Island Winner

1947 Leonard Weisgard Rain Drop Splash Honor

1947 Jay Hyde Barnum Boats on the River Honor

1947 Tony Palazzo Timothy Turtle Honor

1947 Leo Politi Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street Honor

1947 Marjorie Torrey Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns

Honor

1948 Roger Duvoisin White Snow, Bright Snow Winner

1948 Marcia Brown Stone Soup Honor

1948 Dr. Seuss McElligot's Pool Honor

1948 Georges Schreiber Bambino the Clown Honor

1948 Hildegard Woodward Roger and the Fox Honor

1948 Virginia Lee Burton Song of Robin Hood Honor

1949 Berta and Elmer Hader The Big Snow Winner

1949 Robert McCloskey Blueberries for Sal Honor

1949 Helen Stone All Around the Town Honor

1949 Leo Politi Juanita Honor

1949 Kurt Wiese Fish in the Air Honor

1950 Leo Politi Song of the Swallows Winner

1950 Lynd Ward America's Ethan Allen Honor

1950 Hildegard Woodward The Wild Birthday Cake Honor

1950 Marc Simont The Happy Day Honor

1950 Dr. Seuss Bartholomew and the Oobleck Honor

1950 Marcia Brown Henry Fisherman Honor

1951 Katherine Milhous The Egg Tree Winner

1951 Marcia Brown Dick Whittington and His Cat Honor

1951 Nicholas Mordvinoff The Two Reds Honor

1951 Dr. Seuss If I Ran the Zoo Honor

1951 Helen Stone The Most Wonderful Doll in the World Honor

1951 Clare Turlay Newberry T-Bone, the Baby Sitter Honor

1952 Nicholas Mordvinoff Finders Keepers Winner

1952 Marie Hall Ets Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo Honor

1952 Marcia Brown Skipper John's Cook Honor

1952 Margaret Bloy Graham All Falling Down Honor

1952 William Pène du Bois Bear Party Honor

1952 Elizabeth Olds Feather Mountain Honor

1953 Lynd Ward The Biggest Bear Winner

1953 Marcia Brown Puss in Boots Honor

1953 Robert McCloskey One Morning in Maine Honor

1953 Fritz Eichenberg Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals Honor

1953 Margaret Bloy Graham The Storm Book Honor

1953 Juliet Kepes Five Little Monkeys Honor

1954 Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline's Rescue Winner

1954 Robert McCloskey Journey Cake, Ho! Honor

1954 Jean Charlot When Will the World Be Mine? Honor

1954 Marcia Brown The Steadfast Tin Soldier Honor

1954 Maurice Sendak A Very Special House Honor

1954 A. Birnbaum Green Eyes Honor

1955 Marcia Brown Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper Winner

1955 Marguerite de Angeli Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes Honor

1955 Tibor Gergely Wheel On The Chimney Honor

1955 Helen Sewell The Thanksgiving Story Honor

1956 Feodor Rojankovsky Frog Went A-Courtin' Winner

1956 Marie Hall Ets Play With Me Honor

1956 Taro Yashima Crow Boy Honor

1957 Marc Simont A Tree is Nice Winner

1957 Marie Hall Ets Mr. Penny's Race Horse Honor

1957 Tasha Tudor 1 is One Honor

1957 Paul Galdone Anatole Honor

1957 James Daugherty Gillespie and the Guards Honor

1957 William Pène du Bois Lion Honor

1958 Robert McCloskey Time of Wonder Winner

1958 Don Freeman Fly High, Fly Low Honor

1958 Paul Galdone Anatole and the Cat Honor

1959 Barbara Cooney Chanticleer and the Fox Winner

1959 Antonio Frasconi The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie

Honor

1959 Maurice Sendak What Do You Say, Dear? Honor

1959 Taro Yashima Umbrella Honor

1960 Marie Hall Ets Nine Days to Christmas Winner

1960 Adrienne Adams Houses from the Sea Honor

1960 Maurice Sendak The Moon Jumpers Honor

1961 Nicolas Sidjakov Baboushka and the Three Kings Winner

1961 Leo Lionni Inch by Inch Honor

1962 Marcia Brown Once a Mouse Winner

1962 Peter Spier Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song Honor

1962 Maurice Sendak Little Bear's Visit Honor

1962 Adrienne Adams The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up Honor

1963 Ezra Jack Keats The Snowy Day Winner

1963 Bernarda Bryson The Sun is a Golden Earring Honor

1963 Maurice Sendak Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present Honor

1964 Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are Winner

1964 Leo Lionni Swimmy Honor

1964 Evaline Ness All in the Morning Early Honor

1964 Philip Reed Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes Honor

1965 Beni Montresor May I Bring a Friend? Winner

1965 Marvin Bileck Rain Makes Applesauce Honor

1965 Blair Lent The Wave Honor

1965 Evaline Ness A Pocketful of Cricket Honor

1966 Nonny Hogrogian Always Room for One More Winner

1966 Roger Duvoisin Hide and Seek Fog Honor

1966 Marie Hall Ets Just Me Honor

1966 Evaline Ness Tom Tit Tot Honor

1967 Evaline Ness Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine Winner

1967 Ed Emberley One Wide River to Cross Honor

1968 Ed Emberley Drummer Hoff Winner

1968 Leo Lionni Frederick Honor

1968 Taro Yashima Seashore Story Honor

1968 Ed Young The Emperor and the Kite Honor

1969 Uri Shulevitz The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Winner

1969 Blair Lent Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky Honor

1970 William Steig Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Winner

1970 Ezra Jack Keats Goggles! Honor

1970 Leo Lionni Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse Honor

1970 Robert Andrew Parker Pop Corn & Ma Goodness Honor

1970 Brinton Turkle Thy Friend, Obadiah Honor

1970 Margot Zemach The Judge: An Untrue Tale Honor

1971 Gail E. Haley A Story a Story Winner

1971 Blair Lent The Angry Moon Honor

1971 Arnold Lobel Frog and Toad are Friends Honor

1971 Maurice Sendak In the Night Kitchen Honor

1972 Nonny Hogrogian One Fine Day Winner

1972 Arnold Lobel Hildilid's Night Honor

1972 Janina Domanska If All the Seas Were One Sea Honor

1972 Tom Feelings Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book Honor

1973 Blair Lent The Funny Little Woman Winner

1973 Gerald McDermott Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti Honor

1973 Leonard Baskin Hosie's Alphabet Honor

1973 Nancy Ekholm Burkert Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs Honor

1973 Tom Bahti When Clay Sings Honor

1974 Margot Zemach Duffy and the Devil Winner

1974 Susan Jeffers Three Jovial Huntsmen Honor

1974 David Macaulay Cathedral Honor

1975 Gerald McDermott Arrow to the Sun Winner

1975 Tom Feelings Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book

Honor

1976 Leo and Diane Dillon Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears Winner

1976 Peter Parnall The Desert is Theirs Honor

1976 Tomie de Paola Strega Nona Honor

1977 Leo and Diane Dillon Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions Winner

1977 William Steig The Amazing Bone Honor

1977 Nonny Hogrogian The Contest Honor

1977 M. B. Goffstein Fish for Supper Honor

1977 Beverly Brodsky McDermott

The Golem: A Jewish Legend Honor

1977 Peter Parnall Hawk, I'm Your Brother Honor

1978 Peter Spier Noah's Ark Winner

1978 David Macaulay Castle Honor

1978 Margot Zemach It Could Always Be Worse Honor

1979 Paul Goble The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Winner

1979 Donald Crews Freight Train Honor

1979 Peter Parnall The Way to Start a Day Honor

1980 Barbara Cooney Ox-Cart Man Winner

1980 Rachel Isadora Ben's Trumpet Honor

1980 Chris Van Allsburg The Garden of Abdul Gasazi Honor

1980 Uri Shulevitz The Treasure Honor

1981 Arnold Lobel Fables Winner

1981 Ilse Plume The Bremen-Town Musicians Honor

1981 Molly Bang The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher Honor

1981 Joseph Low Mice Twice Honor

1981 Donald Crews Truck Honor

1982 Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji Winner

1982 Stephen Gammell Where the Buffaloes Begin Honor

1982 Anita Lobel On Market Street Honor

1982 Maurice Sendak Outside Over There Honor

1982 Alice and Martin Provensen

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

Honor

1983 Marcia Brown Shadow Winner

1983 Vera B. Williams A Chair for My Mother Honor

1983 Diane Goode When I Was Young in the Mountains Honor

1984 Alice and Martin Provensen

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot

Winner

1984 Trina Schart Hyman Little Red Riding Hood Honor

1984 Molly Bang Ten, Nine, Eight Honor

1985 Trina Schart Hyman Saint George and the Dragon Winner

1985 Paul O. Zelinsky Hansel and Gretel Honor

1985 Nancy Tafuri Have You Seen My Duckling? Honor

1985 John Steptoe The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend

Honor

1986 Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express Winner

1986 Stephen Gammell The Relatives Came Honor

1986 Don Wood King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Honor

1987 Richard Egielski Hey, Al Winner

1987 Ann Grifalconi The Village of Round and Square Houses Honor

1987 Suse MacDonald Alphabatics Honor

1987 Paul O. Zelinsky Rumpelstiltskin Honor

1988 John Schoenherr Owl Moon Winner

1988 John Steptoe Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

Honor

1989 Stephen Gammell Song and Dance Man Winner

1989 Allen Say The Boy of the Three-Year Nap Honor

1989 David Wiesner Free Fall Honor

1989 James Marshall Goldilocks and the Three Bears Honor

1989 Jerry Pinkney Mirandy and Brother Wind Honor

1990 Ed Young Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

Winner

1990 Bill Peet Bill Peet: An Autobiography Honor

1990 Lois Ehlert Color Zoo Honor

1990 Jerry Pinkney The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South

Honor

1990 Trina Schart Hyman Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins Honor

1991 David Macaulay Black and White Winner

1991 Fred Marcellino Puss in Boots Honor

1991 Vera B. Williams "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories

Honor

1992 David Wiesner Tuesday Winner

1992 Faith Ringgold Tar Beach Honor

1993 Emily Arnold McCully Mirette on the High Wire Winner

1993 Lane Smith The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Honor

1993 Ed Young Seven Blind Mice Honor

1993 Carole Byard Working Cotton Honor

1994 Allen Say Grandfather's Journey Winner

1994 Ted Lewin Peppe the Lamplighter Honor

1994 Denise Fleming In the Small, Small Pond Honor

1994 Gerald McDermott Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

Honor

1994 Kevin Henkes Owen Honor

1994 Chris Raschka Yo! Yes? Honor

1995 David Diaz Smoky Night Winner

1995 Jerry Pinkney John Henry Honor

1995 Paul O. Zelinsky Swamp Angel Honor

1995 Eric Rohmann Time Flies Honor

1996 Peggy Rathmann Officer Buckle and Gloria Winner

1996 Stephen T. Johnson Alphabet City Honor

1996 Marjorie Priceman Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin Honor

1996 Brian Pinkney The Faithful Friend Honor

1996 Janet Stevens Tops & Bottoms Honor

1997 David Wisniewski Golem Winner

1997 Holly Meade Hush! A Thai Lullaby Honor

1997 David Pelletier The Graphic Alphabet Honor

1997 Dav Pilkey The Paperboy Honor

1997 Peter Sís Starry Messenger Honor

1998 Paul O. Zelinsky Rapunzel Winner

1998 David Small The Gardener Honor

1998 Christopher Myers Harlem Honor

1998 Simms Taback There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Honor

1999 Mary Azarian Snowflake Bentley Winner

1999 Brian Pinkney Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

Honor

1999 David Shannon No, David! Honor

1999 Uri Shulevitz Snow Honor

1999 Peter Sís Tibet Through the Red Box Honor

2000 Simms Taback Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Winner

2000 Trina Schart Hyman A Child's Calendar Honor

2000 David Wiesner Sector 7 Honor

2000 Molly Bang When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry

Honor

2000 Jerry Pinkney The Ugly Duckling Honor

2001 David Small So You Want to Be President? Winner

2001 Christopher Bing Casey at the Bat Honor

2001 Betsy Lewin Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Honor

2001 Ian Falconer Olivia Honor

2002 David Wiesner The Three Pigs Winner

2002 Brian Selznick The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Honor

2002 Bryan Collier Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Honor

2002 Marc Simont The Stray Dog Honor

2003 Eric Rohmann My Friend Rabbit Winner

2003 Tony DiTerlizzi The Spider and the Fly Honor

2003 Peter McCarty Hondo & Fabian Honor

2003 Jerry Pinkney Noah's Ark Honor

2004 Mordicai Gerstein The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Winner

2004 Margaret Chodos-Irvine Ella Sarah Gets Dressed Honor

2004 Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? Honor

2004 Mo Willems Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Honor

2005 Kevin Henkes Kitten's First Full Moon Winner

2005 Barbara Lehman The Red Book Honor

2005 E. B. Lewis Coming on Home Soon Honor

2005 Mo Willems Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale Honor

2006 Chris Raschka The Hello, Goodbye Window Winner

2006 Bryan Collier Rosa Honor

2006 Jon J. Muth Zen Shorts Honor

2006 Marjorie Priceman Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride

Honor

2006 Beckie Prange Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems

Honor

2007 David Wiesner Flotsam Winner

2007 David McLimans Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet Honor

2007 Kadir Nelson Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Honor

2008 Brian Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret Winner

2008 Kadir Nelson Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Honor

2008 Laura Vaccaro Seeger First the Egg Honor

2008 Peter Sís The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Honor

2008 Mo Willems Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity

Honor

2009 Beth Krommes The House in the Night Winner

2009 Marla Frazee A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever Honor

2009 Uri Shulevitz How I Learned Geography Honor

2009 Melissa Sweet A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams

Honor

2010 Jerry Pinkney The Lion & the Mouse Winner

2010 Marla Frazee All the World Honor

2010 Pamela Zagarenski Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors Honor

 

2011 Erin E. Stead A Sick Day for Amos McGee Winner

2011 Bryan Collier Dave the Potter Honor

2011 David Ezra Stein Interrupting Chicken Honor

2012 Chris Raschka A Ball for Daisy Winner

2012 John Rocco Blackout Honor

2012 Lane Smith Grandpa Green Honor

2012 Patrick McDonnell Me...Jane Honor