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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
-
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
2008

No award
(change from Fall to
Spring Award Celebration)
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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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