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The Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC
Previous Winners
Year
Award Winner
2023
Don Brown
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2022
Gail Jarrow
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2020-2021
Catherine Reef
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2019
Carole Boston Weatherford
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2018
Phillip Hoose
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2017
Ann Bausum
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2016
Tonya Bolden
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2015
Steve Sheinkin
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2014
Candace Fleming
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2013
Janet Greenberg and
Sandra Jordan
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2012
Peter Sís
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2011
Kathleen Krull
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2010
Sy Montgomery
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2009
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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2008
No award
(Change from Fall to Spring Award Celebration)
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2007
Doreen Rappaport
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2006
Sneed B. Collard III
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Chris Raschka
Norton Juster
(Guest Speakers)
2005
Caroline Arnold
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Donna Jo Napoli
Brian Selznick
(Guest Speakers)
2004
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
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Jerry and Eileen Spinelli
Mark Teague
(Guest Speakers)
2003
Steve Jenkins
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Andrew Clements
James Ransome
(Guest Speakers)
2002
George Ancona
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Sharon Creech
E.B.Lewis
(Guest Speakers)
2001
Jim Murphy
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M.E.Kerr
Emily Arnold McCully
(Guest Speakers)
2000
Diane Stanley
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Katherine Paterson
David Wisniewski
(Guest Speakers)
1999
Laurence Pringle
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Jerry Pinkney
Julius Lester
(Guest Speakers)
1998
Jean Craighead George
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Avi
Ed Emberley
(Guest Speakers)
1997
Rhoda Blumberg
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Richard Peck
David Wiesner
(Guest Speakers)
1996
James Cross Giblin
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Helen Griffith
Ted Lewin
(Guest Speakers)
1995
Albert Marrin
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Steven Kellogg
Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng
(Guest Speakers)
1994
Jim Haskins
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Johanna Hurwitz
William Joyce
(Guest Speakers)
1993
Seymour Simon
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Patricia Polacco
(Guest Speakers)
1992
Russell Freedman
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John Scieszka
Pat Cummings
(Guest Speakers)
1991
Joanna Cole
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X.J.Kennedy
Anita Lobel
(Guest Speakers)
1990
Brent Ashabranner
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Eve Bunting
Bruce Degan
(Guest Speakers)
1989
Leonard Everett Fisher
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Lois Lowry
Jerry Pinkney
(Guest Speakers)
1988
Jim Arnosky
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Alice Provensen
Gary Paulsen
(Guest Speakers)
1987
Gail Gibbons
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Norma Fox Mazer
Paul Zelinsky
(Guest Speakers)
1986
Kathryn Lasky
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Betsy Byars
Charles Mikolaycak
(Guest Speakers)
1985
Isaac Asimov
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Jack Prelutsky
Trina Schart Hyman
(Guest Speakers)
1984
Jill Krementz
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M.E.Kerr
Vera Williams
(Guest Speakers)
1983
Patricia Lauber
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Ashley Bryan
Cynthia Voigt
(Guest Speakers)
1982
Tana Hoban
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Joan Aiken
Karla Kuskin
(Guest Speakers)
1981
Milton Meltzer
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Katherine Paterson
Nancy Larrick
(Guest Speakers)
1980
Shirley Glubok
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Leonard E. Fisher
Walter Dean Myers
(Guest Speakers)
1979
Jean Fritz
Milton Meltzer
Laurence Pringle
(Honors)
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1978
Millicent Selsam
Jean Fritz
(Honors)
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1977
David Macaulay
Olivia Coolidge
Laurence Pringle
(Honors)
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Don Brown
2023 Winner
Gail_Jarrow
2022 Winner
Millicent Selsam
1978 Winner
Don Brown
2023 Winner
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