2020 – No Award
2021 – Dusti Bowling and Paul Mosier
2022 – No Award
| Past Winners in Children’s Literature 2019 No winner selected 2018 Chris Gall 2017 Adam Rex 2016 Charline Profiri 2015 Monica Brown 2014 Lynne Avril 2013 Guy Porfirio 2012 Brooke Bessesen 2011 Jennifer Ward 2010 Barbara Gowan 2009 Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford 2008 S.D. Nelson 2007 Marjorie Weinman Sharmat 2006 Barbara Park 2005 Alice McLerran 2004 Joan Sandin 2003 Jean Ekman Adams 2002 Sylvia Long 2001 Conrad Storad 2000 Ruth Covault 1999 Joyce Rossi 1998 Jan Romero Stevens 1997 Ron Himler 1996 Baje Whitethorne 1995 Joe Hayes & Kay Sather 1994 Susan Lowell 1993 Shonto Begay 1992 Ken Buchanan 1991 Michael Lacapa 1990 Gisela and E. Wesley Jernigan 1989 Elizabeth P. Qoyawayma 1988 Betty Baker 1987 Lynn Gessner 1986 Don Schellie 1985 Byrd Baylor 1984 Ann Nolan Clark 1983 Eulalia Bourne |
Past Winners in Young Adult Literature 2019 No winner selected 2018 Sonja Stone 2017 Amy Fellner Dominy 2016 Erin Jade Lange 2015 Lisa McMann 2014 Nancy Farmer 2013 Robin Brande 2012 Janette Rallison 2011 Jillian Cantor 2010 Janni Lee Simner 2009 Marge Pellegrino 2008 Stephenie Meyer 2007 Laura Resau 2006 Ann Jaramillo 2005 Gary Soto 2004 Fran Leeper Buss 2003 Valerie Hobbs 2002 Pete Hautman 2001 Pam Muñoz Ryan 2000 Brian Burks 1999 Will Hobbs 1998 Suzanne Pierson Ellison 1997 Helen Hughes Vick |