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Previous Winners
Year
Award Winner
Honors
Guest Speakers
1977
David Macaulay
Olivia Coolidge
Laurence Pringle
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1981
Milton Meltzer
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Katherine Paterson
Nancy Larrick
1978
Millicent Selsam
Jean Fritz
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1979
Jean Fritz
Milton Meltzer
Laurence Pringle
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1980
Shirley Glubok
-
Leonard E. Fisher
Walter Dean Myers
1982
Tana Hoban
-
Joan Aiken
Karla Kuskin
1983
Patricia Lauber
-
Ashley Bryan
Cynthia Voigt
1984
Jill Krementz
-
M.E.Kerr
Vera Williams
1985
Isaac Asimov
-
Jack Prelutsky
Trina Schart Hyman
1986
Kathryn Lasky
-
Betsy Byars
Charles Mikolaycak
1987
Gail Gibbons
-
Norma Fox Mazer
Paul Zelinsky
1988
Jim Arnosky
-
Alice Provensen
Gary Paulsen
1989
Leonard Everett Fisher
-
Lois Lowry
Jerry Pinkney
1990
Brent Ashabranner
-
Eve Bunting
Bruce Degan
1991
Joanna Cole
-
X.J.Kennedy
Anita Lobel
1992
Russell Freedman
-
John Scieszka
Pat Cummings
1993
Seymour Simon
-
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Patricia Polacco
1994
Jim Haskins
-
Johanna Hurwitz
William Joyce
1995
Albert Marrin
-
Steven Kellogg
Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng
1996
James Cross Giblin
-
Helen Griffith
Ted Lewin
1997
Rhoda Blumberg
-
Richard Peck
David Wiesner
1998
Jean Craighead George
-
Avi
Ed Emberley
1999
Laurence Pringle
-
Jerry Pinkney
Julius Lester
2000
Diane Stanley
-
Katherine Paterson
David Wisniewski
2001
Jim Murphy
-
M.E.Kerr
Emily Arnold McCully
2002
George Ancona
-
Sharon Creech
E.B.Lewis
2003
Steve Jenkins
-
Andrew Clements
James Ransome
2004
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
-
Jerry and Eileen Spinelli
Mark Teague
2005
Caroline Arnold
-
Donna Jo Napoli
Brian Selznick
2006
Sneed B. Collard III
-
Chris Raschka
Norton Juster
2007
Doreen Rappaport
-
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2008
No award
(change from Fall to
Spring Award Celebration)
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2009
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
-
-
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2010
Sy Montgomery
-
-
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2011
Kathleen Krull
-
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2012
Peter Sís
-
-
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2013
Janet Greenberg and
Sandra Jordan
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2014
Candace Fleming
-
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2015
Steve Sheinkin
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2016
Tonya Bolden
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2017
Ann Bausum
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2018
Phillip Hoose
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2019
Carole Boston Weatherford
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-
2020-2021
Catherine Reef
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Catherine Reef
2020-2021 Winner
Carole Boston Weatherford
2019 Winner
Millicent Selsam
1978 Winner
Catherine Reef
2020-2021 Winner
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