1980
Jean Fritz
Harold Keith
William Scott
Nancy Renfro

1981
Bessie Holland Heck
Jean Craighead George
Steven Kellogg

1982
Robert Burch
Marcia Brown
Hellen Sattler

1983
Betsy Byars
Jack Bickam
Alice Provenson

1984
Mary Francis Shura
Glen Rounds
Karla Kuskin

1985
Alvin Schwartz
Avi
Gerald McDermott

1986
Leonard Everett Fisher
Byrd Baylor
Bill Brittain

1987
Trina Schart Hyman
Patricia MacLachlan
Sid Fleischman

1988
Susan Jeffers
Paul Fleischman
Katherine Paterson

1989
Alfred Slote
Russell Freeman
Ed Young

 1990
Pam Conrad
Jane Yolen
Paul O. Zelinsky

1991
Kathryn Lasky
Lois Lowry
Thomas Locker

1992
Patricia Lauber
Elaine L. Konigsburg
Jerry Pinkney

1993

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Diane Stanley
David Weisner

1994
Emily Arnold McCully
Ashley F. Bryan
Marion Dane Bauer

1995
Lois Ehlert
Floyd Cooper
Walter Dean Myers

1996

Joseph Bruchac
Sharon Creech
Barry Moser

1997
Paul Zindel
Janet Stevens
Ann Turner

1998
(with Celebration of Books)
Joyce Carol Thomas
Steven Kellogg
Janet Stevens

1999
Joanne Ryder
Laurence Yep
Rosemary Wells

Kevin Henkes
Will Hobbs
Douglas Florian

2001
Avi
Gail Gibbons
Nikki Grimes

2002
Cynthia DeFelice
Paul Janeczko
Steven Kellogg

2003
Jim Arnosky
Denise Fleming
Geraldine McCaughrean

2004
Susan Cooper
Kimberly Willis Holt
Walter Wick

2005
Demi
Russell Freedman
Pam Muñoz Ryan

2008