NONFICTION AWARD

From 1977 - 2023, the Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award honored authors or author-illustrators whose total work contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children. Nonfiction is written or illustrated work which arranges and interprets documentable facts intended to illuminate, without imaginative invention, the following fields of knowledge: science, technology, social science, biography, and the arts.

Past Winners

2023 Don Brown

2022 Gail Jarrow

2020-2021Catherine Reef​

2019 Carole Boston Weatherford

2018 Phillip Hoose

2017 Ann Bausum

2016 Tonya Bolden

2015 Steve Sheinkin

2014 Candace Fleming

2013 Janet Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

2012 Peter Sís

2011 Kathleen Krull

2010 Sy Montgomery

2009 Susan Campbell Bartoletti

2008 No award(Change from Fall to Spring Award Celebration)

2007 Doreen Rappaport

2006 Sneed B. Collard III

2005 Caroline Arnold

2004 Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

2003 Steve Jenkins

2002 George Ancona

2001 Jim Murphy

2000 Diane Stanley

1999 Laurence Pringle

1998 Jean Craighead George

1997 Rhoda Blumberg

1996 James Cross Giblin

1995 Albert Marrin

1994 Jim Haskins

1993 Seymour Simon

1992 Russell Freedman

1991 Joanna Cole

1990 Brent Ashabranner

1989 Leonard Everett Fisher

1988 Jim Arnosky

1987 Gail Gibbons

1986 Kathryn Lasky

1985 Isaac Asimov

1984 Jill Krementz

1983 Patricia Lauber

1982 Tana Hoban

1981 Milton Meltzer

1980 Shirley Glubok

1979 Jean Fritz

1978 Millicent Selsam

1977 David Macaulay