2011
Picture Book
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor (Houghton)
Honor Books: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton); Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Putnam)
Fiction
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick)
Honor Books: Chime by Franny Billingsley (Dial); Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke (Kane Miller)
Nonfiction
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)
Honor Books: Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross, illustrated by Stephen Biesty (Candlewick); Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins, illustrated by Vicky White (Candlewick)
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2010
Picture Book
I Know Here by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood)
Honor Books: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown); It’s a Secret! by John Burningham (Candlewick)
Fiction
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Lamb/Random)
Honor Books: The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís (Scholastic); A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
Nonfiction
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)
Honor Books: Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol (Flash Point/Roaring Brook); Smile by Raina Telgemeier (Graphix/Scholastic)
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2009
Picture Book
Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Clarion)
Honor Books: Old Bear by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow/HarperCollins); Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli (Candlewick)
Fiction
Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
Honor Books: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick); The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
Honor Books: The Way We Work by David Macaulay with Richard Walker, illustrated by David Macaulay (Lorraine/Houghton); Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick)
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2008
Picture Book
At Night by Jonathan Bean (Farrar)
Honor Books: Fred Stays with Me! by Nancy Coffelt, illustrated by Tricia Tusa (Little); A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee (Harcourt)
Fiction and Poetry
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney (Little)
Honor Books: Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell (Atheneum); Savvy by Ingrid Law (Walden/Dial)
Nonfiction
The Wall by Peter Sis (Foster/Farrar)
Honor Books: Frogs by Nic Bishop (Scholastic); What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham (Scholastic)
Special Citation
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Levine/Scholastic)
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2007
Picture Book
Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Porter/Roaring Brook)
Honor Books: 365 Penguins written by Jean-Luc Fromental, illustrated by Joelle Jolivet (Abrams); Wolves (Simon) written and illustrated by Emily Gravett
Fiction and Poetry
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson(Candlewick)
Honor Books: Clementine written by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee (Hyperion); Rex Zero and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones (Kroupa/Farrar)
Nonfiction
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr written and illustrated by Nicolas Debon (Groundwood)
Honor Books: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns (Houghton); Escape! by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
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2006
Picture Book
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt)
Honor Books: Mama: A True Story in Which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama during a Tsunami, but Finds a New Home, and a New Mama by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt); Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by James E. Ransome (Schwartz & Wade/Random)
Fiction and Poetry
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline(Candlewick)
Honor Books: Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary by Julie Larios, illustrated by Julie Paschkis (Harcourt); Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy(Marshall Cavendish)
Nonfiction
If You Decide to Go to the Moon (Scholastic) by Faith McNulty, illustrated by Steven Kellogg
Honor Books: A Mother’s Journey (Charlesbridge) by Sandra Markle, illustrated by Alan Marks; Wildfire (Lorraine/Houghton) by Taylor Morrison
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2005
Fiction and Poetry
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Schusterman (Dutton)
Honor Books Kalpana’s Dream by Judith Clarke (Front Street); A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (Houghton)
Nonfiction
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose (Kroupa/Farrar)
Honor Books: Good Brother, Bad Brother by James Cross Giblin (Clarion); Michael Rosen’s Sad Book written by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Quentin Blake (Candlewick)
Picture Book
Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey (Knopf)
Honor Books: That New Animal written by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Pierre Pratt (Foster/Farrar); The Hello, Goodbye Window written by Norton Juster, illustrated by Chris Raschka (di Capua/Hyperion)
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2004
Fiction and Poetry
The Fire-Eaters by David Almond (Delacorte)
Honor Books: God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant (HarperTempest); The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One by Jonathan Stroud (Hyperion)
Nonfiction
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion)
Honor Books: Surprising Sharks written by Nicola Davies, illustrated by James Croft (Candlewick); The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins by Bea Uusma Schyffert (Chronicle)
Picture Book
The Man Who Walked between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook) listen to speech
Honor Books: The Shape Game by Anthony Browne (Farrar); Snow Music by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)
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2003
Fiction and Poetry
The Jamie and Angus Stories written by Anne Fine, illustrated by Penny Dale (Candlewick)
Honor Books: Feed by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick); Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)
Nonfiction
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman (Putnam)
Honor Books: To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers written by Wendie C. Old, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker (Clarion); and Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (Putnam)
Picture Book
Big Momma Makes the World written by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Candlewick)
Honor Books: Dahlia by Barbara McClintock (Foster/Farrar); and blues journey written by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers (Holiday)
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2002
Fiction and Poetry
Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury (Delacorte)
Honor Books: Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay (McElderry); and Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)
Nonfiction
This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)
Honor Books: Handel, Who Knew What He Liked written by M.T. Anderson, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (Candlewick); and Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People by Bonnie Christensen (Knopf)
Picture Book
“Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate by Bob Graham (Candlewick)
Honor Books: I Stink! written by Kate McMullan, illustrated by Jim McMullan (Cotler/Harper); and Little Rat Sets Sail written by Monika Bang-Campbell, illustrated by Molly Bang (Harcourt)
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2001
Fiction and Poetry
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
Honor Books: Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar); and Troy by Adèle Geras (Harcourt)
Nonfiction
The Longitude Prize written by Joan Dash, illustrated by Dusan Petricic (Foster/Farrar)
Honor Books: Rocks in His Head written by Carol Otis Hurst, illustrated by James Stevenson (Greenwillow); and Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown (Houghton)
Picture Book
Cold Feet written by Cynthia DeFelice, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker (DK Ink)
Honor Books: Five Creatures written by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Tomek Bogacki (Foster/Farrar); and The Stray Dog by Marc Simont (HarperCollins)
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2000
Fiction
The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley (Atheneum)
Honor Books: King of Shadows by Susan Cooper(McElderry); and 145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers (Delacorte)
Nonfiction
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson (Clarion)
Honor Books: Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter collected and edited by Alan Govenar; illustrated by Shane W. Evans (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion); and Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin (Dutton)
Picture Book
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson (Houghton)
Honor Books: Buttons by Brock Cole (Farrar); and a day, a dog by Gabrielle Vincent (Front Street)
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1999
Fiction
Holes by Louis Sachar (Foster/Farrar)
Honor Books: The Trolls by Polly Horvath (Farrar); and Monster written by Walter Dean Myers, illustrations by Christopher Myers (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins (Houghton)
Honor Books: Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong (Crown); and William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki (HarperCollins)
Picture Book
Red-Eyed Tree Frog written by Joy Cowley, illustrated with photographs by Nic Bishop (Scholastic)
Honor Books: Dance written by Bill T. Jones and Susan Kukli, illustrated with photographs by Susan Kuklin (Hyperion); and The Owl and the Pussycat written by Edward Lear, illustrated by James Marshall (di Capua/HarperCollins)
Special Citation
Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter Sis (Foster/Farrar)
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1998
Fiction
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez (University of New Mexico Press)
Honor Books: While No One Was Watching by Jane Leslie Conly (Holt); and My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt (Holt)
Nonfiction
Leon’s Story written by Leon Walter Tillage, illustrated with collage art by Susan L. Roth (Farrar)
Honor Books: Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life by Russell Freedman (Clarion); and Chuck Close Up Close by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (DK Ink)
Picture Book
And If the Moon Could Talk written by Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben (Foster/Farrar)
Honor Books: Seven Brave Women written by Betsy Hearne, illustrated by Bethanne Andersen (Greenwillow); and Popcorn: Poems by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)
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1997
Fiction
The Friends written by Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano (Farrar)
Honor Books: Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte); and Harlem written by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers (Scholastic)
Nonfiction
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder written and illustrated with photographs by Walter Wick (Scholastic)
Honor Books: Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man written by David A. Adler, illustrated by Terry Widener (Gulliver/Harcourt); and Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley (Morrow)
Picture Book
The Adventures of Sparrowboy by Brian Pinkney (Simon)
Honor Books: Home on the Bayou: A Coyboy’s Story by G. Brian Karas (Simon); and Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression written by Kate Lied, illustrated by Lisa Campbell Ernst (National Geographic)
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1996
Fiction
Poppy written by Avi, illustrated by Brian Floca (Jackson/Orchard)
Honor Books: The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (McElderry); and Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White (Farrar)
Nonfiction
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story by Andrea Warren (Houghton)
Honor Books: The Boy Who Lived with the Bears: And Other Iroquois Stories written by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Murv Jacob (Harper); and Haystack written by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert, illustrated by Arthur Geisert (Houghton)
Picture Book
In the Rain with Baby Duck written by Amy Hest, illustrated by Jill Barton (Candlewick)
Honor Books: Fanny’s Dream written by Caralyn Buehner, illustrated by Mark Buehner (Dial); and Home Lovely by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)
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1995
Fiction
Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones (Kroupa/Orchard)
Honor Books: Jericho by Janet Hickman (Greenwillow); and Earthshine by Theresa Nelson (Jackson/Orchard)
Nonfiction
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober (Atheneum)
Honor Books: It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health written by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley (Candlewick); and The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)
Picture Book
John Henry retold by Julius Lester, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Dial)
Honor Book: Swamp Angel written by Anne Isaacs, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
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1994
Fiction
Scooter by Vera Williams (Greenwillow)
Honor Books: Flour Babies by Anne Fine (Little); and Western Wind by Paula Fox (Orchard)
Nonfiction
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
Honor Books: Unconditional Surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin (Atheneum); and A Tree Place and Other Poems written by Constance Levy, illustrated by Robert Sabuda (McElderry)
Picture Book
Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say (Houghton)
Honor Books: Owen by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow); and A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North by Peter Sis (Knopf)
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1993
Fiction
Ajeemah and His Son by James Berry (Harper)
Honor Book: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
Nonfiction
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic)
Honor Book: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (And What the Neighbors Thought) written by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt)
Picture Book
The Fortune Tellers written by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Dutton)
Honor Books: Komodo! by Peter Sis (Greenwillow); and Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott (Harcourt)
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1992
Fiction
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
Honor Books: Nothing but the Truth by Avi (Jackson/Orchard); and Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Nonfiction
Talking with Artists compiled and edited by Pat Cummings (Bradbury)
Honor Books: Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt); and The Handmade Alphabet by Laura Rankin (Dial)
Picture Book
Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young (Philomel)
Honor Book: In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming (Holt)
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1991
Fiction
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Orchard)
Honor Books: Paradise Cafe and Other Stories by Martha Brooks (Joy Street); and Judy Scuppernong by Brenda Seabrooke (Cobblehill)
Nonfiction
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds written by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Barry Moser (Harcourt)
Honor Books: The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House); and Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England written by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema, illustrated by Diane Stanley (Four Winds)
Picture Book
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks written by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Lodestar)
Honor Books: Aardvarks, Disembark! by Ann Jonas (Greenwillow); and Sophie and Lou by Petra Mathers (Harper)
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1990
Fiction
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
Honor Books: Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman (Harper); and Stonewords by Pam Conrad (Harper)
Nonfiction
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
Honor Book: Insect Metamorphosis: From Egg to Adult written by Ron and Nancy Goor, illustrated with photographs by Ron Goor (Atheneum)
Picture Book
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China translated and illustrated by Ed Young (Philomel)
Honor Book: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom written by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert (Simon)
Special Citation
Valentine and Orson by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Farrar)
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1989
Fiction
The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox (Orchard)
Honor Books: Eva by Peter Dickinson (Delacorte); and Gideon Ahoy! by William Mayne (Delacorte)
Nonfiction
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Houghton)
Honor Books: The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep (Harper); and Round Buildings Square Buildings, & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish written and illustrated with photographs by Philip M. Isaacson (Knopf)
Picture Book
Shy Charles by Rosemary Wells (Dial)
Honor Books: Island Boy by Barbara Cooney (Viking); The Nativity illustrated by Julie Vivas (Gulliver/Harcourt)
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1988
Fiction
The Friendship written by Mildred D. Taylor, illustrated by Max Ginsburg (Dial)
Honor Books: Granny Was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty (Orchard); Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices written by Paul Fleischman, illustrated by Eric Beddows (Harper/Zolotow); and Memory by Margaret Mahy (McElderry)
Nonfiction
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)
Honor Books: African Journey written and illustrated with photographs by John Chiasson (Bradbury); and Little by Little: A Writer’s Education by Jean Little (Viking)
Picture Book
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap written by Dianne Snyder, illustrated by Allen Say (Houghton)
Honor Books: Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker (Greenwillow); and Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea written by Vera B. Williams, illustrated by Jennifer Williams and Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)
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1987
Fiction
Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
Honor Books: Georgia Music written by Helen V. Griffith, illustrated by James Stevenson (Greenwillow); and Isaac Campion by Janni Howker (Greenwillow)
Nonfiction
The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall (Atheneum)
Honor Books: Being Born written by Sheila Kitzinger, illustrated with photographs by Lennart Nilsson (Grosset and Dunlap); The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks written by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce Degen (Scholastic); and Steamboat in a Cornfield by John Hartford (Crown)
Picture Book
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe (Lothrop)
Honor Books: In Coal Country written by Judith Hendershot, illustrated by Thomas B. Allen (Knopf); Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow); and Old Henry written by Joan W. Blos, illustrated by Stephen Gammell (Morrow)
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1986
Fiction
In Summer Light by Zibby Oneal (Viking)
Honor Books: Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad (Harper); and Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow)
Nonfiction
Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History by Peggy Thomson (Crowell)
Honor Books: Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America written by Brent Ashabranner, illustrated with photographs by Paul Conklin (Dodd); and The Truth about Santa Claus by James C. Giblin (Crowell)
Picture Book
The Paper Crane by Molly Bang (Greenwillow)
Honor Books: Gorilla by Anthony Browne (Knopf); The Trek by Ann Jonas (Greenwillow); and The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
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1985
Fiction
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
Honor Books: Babe: The Gallant Pig written by Dick King-Smith, illustrated by Mary Rayner (Crown); and The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance by Margaret Mahy (Atheneum/McElderry)
Nonfiction
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
Honor Books: Boy by Roald Dahl (Farrar); and 1812: The War Nobody Won by Albert Marrin (Atheneum)
Picture Book
Mama Don’t Allow by Thacher Hurd (Harper)
Honor Books: Like Jake and Me written by Mavis Jukes, illustrated by Lloyd Bloom (Knopf); How Much Is a Million? written by David M. Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Kellogg (Lothrop); and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
Special Citation
1,2,3, written and illustrated with photographs by Tana Hoban (Greenwillow)
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1984
Fiction
A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson (Atheneum/McElderry)
Honor Books: Archer’s Goon by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow); Unclaimed Treasures by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper); and A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
Nonfiction
The Double Life of Pocahontas written by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Ed Young (Putnam)
Honor Books: Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World: A Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Polly Schoyer Brooks (Lippincott); Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman (Clarion); and The Tipi: A Center of Native American Life by David and Charlotte Yue (Knopf)
Picture Book
Jonah and the Great Fish retold and illustrated by Warwick Hutton (Atheneum/McElderry)
Honor Books: Dawn by Molly Bang (Morrow); The Guinea Pig ABC by Kate Duke (Dutton); and The Rose in My Garden written by Arnold Lobel, illustrated by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow)
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1983
Fiction
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
Honor Books: Homesick: My Own Story written by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Margot Tomes (Putnam); The Road to Camlann by Rosemary Sutcliff (Dutton); Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
Nonfiction
Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis (Dutton)
Honor Books: Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki (Lothrop); and The Jewish Americans: A History in Their Own Words: 1650–1950 by Milton Meltzer (Crowell)
Picture Book
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)
Honor Books: Friends by Helme Heine (Atheneum/McElderry); Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China written by Ai-Ling Louie, illustrated by Ed Young (Philomel); and Doctor De Soto by William Steig (Farrar)
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1982
Fiction
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park (Atheneum)
Honor Books: The Voyage Begun by Nancy Bond (Atheneum); Ask Me No Questions by Ann Schlee (Holt); and The Scarecrows by Robert Westall (Greenwillow)
Nonfiction
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)
Honor Books: Lobo of the Tasaday written and illustrated with photographs by John Nance (Pantheon); and Dinosaurs of North America written by Helen Roney Sattler, illustrated by Anthony Rao (Lothrop)
Picture Book
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers written by Nancy Willard, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen (Harcourt)
Honor Book: The Friendly Beasts: An Old English Christmas Carol by Tomie de Paola (Putnam)
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1981
Fiction
The Leaving by Lynn Hall (Scribners)
Honor Books: Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch (Viking); Flight of the Sparrow by Julia Cunningham (Pantheon); and Footsteps by Leon Garfield (Delacorte)
Nonfiction
The Weaver’s Gift written by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated with photographs by Christopher G. Knight (Warne)
Honor Books: You Can’t Be Timid with a Trumpet: Notes from the Orchestra written and illustrated with photographs by Betty English (Lothrop); The Hospital Book written by James Howe, illustrated with photographs by Mal Warshaw (Crown); and Junk Food, Fast Food Health Food: What America Eats and Why by Lila Perl (Clarion)
Picture Book
Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Honor Books: Where the Buffaloes Begin written by Olaf Baker, illustrated by Stephen Gammell (Warne); On Market Street written by Arnold Lobel, illustrated by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow); and Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
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1980
Fiction
Conrad’s War by Andrew Davies (Crown)
Honor Books: The Night Swimmers by Betsy Byars (Delacorte); Me and My Million by Clive King (Crowell); and The Alfred Summer by Jan Slepian (Macmillan)
Nonfiction
Building: The Fight Against Gravity written by Mario Salvadori, illustrated by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus (Atheneum/McElderry)
Honor Books: Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir written by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney and with photographs (Crowell); Stonewall written by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell (Putnam); and How the Forest Grew written by William Jaspersohn, illustrated by Chuck Eckart (Greenwillow)
Picture Book
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
Honor Books: The Gray Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang (Greenwillow); and Why the Tides Ebb and Flow written by John Chase Bowden, illustrated by Marc Brown (Houghton)
Special Citation
Graham Oakley’s Magical Changes by Graham Oakley (Atheneum)
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1979
Fiction
Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman (Atlantic)
Honor Books: All Together Now by Sue Ellen Bridgers (Knopf); and Silas and Ben-Godik by Cecil Bodker (Delacorte)
Nonfiction
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)
Honor Books: The Iron Road: A Portrait of American Railroading written by Richard Snow, illustrated with photographs by David Plowden (Four Winds); Self-Portrait: Margot Zemach by Margot Zemach (Addison); and The Story of American Photography: An Illustrated History for Young People by Martin Sandler (Little)
Picture Book
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (Random)
Honor Books: Cross-Country Cat written by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Erik Ingraham (Morrow); and Ben’s Trumpet by Rachel Isadora (Greenwillow)
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1978
Fiction
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
Honor Books: Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (Morrow); Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott); and Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy (Harper)
Nonfiction
Mischling, Second Degree by Ilse Koehn (Greenwillow)
Honor Books: Settlers and Strangers: Native Americans of the Desert Southwest and History as They Saw It by Betty Baker (Macmillan); and Castle by David Macaulay (Houghton)
Picture Book
Anno’s Journey by Mitsumasa Anno (Collins-World)
Honor Books: The Story of Edward by Philippe Dumas (Parents); On to Widecombe Fair written by Patricia Lee Gauch, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Putnam); and What Do You Feed Your Donkey On? Rhymes from a Belfast Childhood collected by Collette O’Hare, illustrated by Jenny Rodwell (Collins-World)
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1977
Fiction
Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep (Harper)
Honor Books: Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff (Dutton); Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (Dial); and The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall (Greenwillow)
Nonfiction
Chance, Luck and Destiny by Peter Dickinson (Atlantic)
Honor Books: Watching the Wild Apes by Betty Ann Kevles (Dutton); The Colonial Cookbook by Lucille Recht Penner (Hastings); and From Slave to Abolitionist by Lucille Schulberg Warner (Dial)
Picture Book
Granfa’ Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose by Wallace Tripp (Little)
Honor Books: Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno (Crowell); Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions written by Margaret Musgrove, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Dial); and The Amazing Bone by William Steig (Farrar)
Special Citation
The Changing City and The Changing Countryside by Jorg Mueller (Atheneum/McElderry)
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1976
Fiction
Unleaving by Jill Paton Walsh (Farrar)
Honor Books: A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum/McElderry); A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter (Harper); and Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)
Nonfiction
Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade by Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok (Viking)
Honor Books: Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? written by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Coward); Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer (Harper); and Pyramid by David Macaulay (Houghton)
Picture Book
Thirteen by Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner (Parents)
Honor Books: The Desert Is Theirs written by Byrd Baylor, illustrated by Peter Parnall (Scribners); Six Little Ducks by Chris Conover (Crowell); and Song of the Boat written by Lorenz Graham, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Crowell)
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1975
Fiction
Transport 7-41-R by T. Degens (Viking)
Honor Book: The Hundred Penny Box written by Sharon Bell Mathis, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Viking)
Picture Book
Anno’s Alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno (Crowell)
Honor Books: She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl written by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by John Steptoe (Lippincott); Scram Kid! written by Ann McGovern illustrated by Nola Langner (Viking); and The Bear’s Bicycle written by Emilie Warren McLeod, illustrated by David McPhail (Atlantic)
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1974
Fiction
M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamiltion (Macmillan)
Honor Books: And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? written by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Margot Tomes (Coward); The Summer after the Funeral by Jane Gardam (Macmillan); and Tough Chauncey by Doris Buchanan Smith (Morrow)
Picture Book
Jambo Means Hello written by Muriel Feelings, illustrated by Tom Feelings (Dial)
Honor Books: All Butterflies by Marcia Brown (Scribners); Herman the Helper written by Robert Kraus, illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey (Windmill); and A Prairie Boy’s Winter by William Kurelek (Houghton)
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1973
Fiction
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (Atheneum)
Honor Books: The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man by Lloyd Alexander (Dutton); An Island in a Green Sea by Mabel Esther Allan (Atheneum); and No Way of Telling by Emma Smith (Atheneum/McElderry)
Picture Book
King Stork written by Howard Pyle, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Little)
Honor Books: The Magic Tree by Gerald McDermott (Holt); Who, Said Sue, Said Whoo? by Ellen Raskin (Atheneum); and The Silver Pony by Lynd Ward (Houghton)
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1972
Fiction
Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff (Dutton)
Picture Book
Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham (Holt)
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1971
Fiction
A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron (Atlantic)
Honor Books: Beyond the Weir Bridge by Hester Burton (Crowell); Come by Here by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton); Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien (Atheneum)
Picture Book
If I Built a Village . . . by Kazue Mizumura (Crowell)
Honor Books: If All the Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska (Macmillan); The Angry Moon retold by William Sleator, illustrated by Blair Lent (Atlantic); and A Firefly Named Torchy by Bernard Waber (Houghton)
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1970
Fiction
The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend (Lippincott)
Honor Book: Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver (Lippincott)
Picture Book
Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats (Macmillan)
Honor Book: A Story, A Story by Gail Haley (Atheneum)
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1969
Fiction
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Parnassus)
Honor Books: Flambards by K. M. Peyton (World); Turi’s Poppa by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar); and The Pigman by Paul Zindel (Harper)
Picture Book
The Adventures of Paddy Pork by John S. Goodall (Harcourt)
Honor Books: New Moon Cove written and illustrated with photographs by Ann Atwood (Scribners); Monkey in the Jungle written by Edna Mitchell Preston, illustrated by Clement Hurd (Viking); and Thy Friend Obadiah by Brinton Turkle (Viking)
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1968
Fiction
The Spring Rider by John Lawson (Crowell)
Honor Books: Young Mark by E.M. Almedingen (Farrar); Dark Venture by Audrey White Beyer (Knopf); Smith by Leon Garfield (Pantheon); and The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (Crowell)
Picture Book
Tikki Tikki Tembo written by Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent (Holt)
Honor Books: Gilgamesh: Man’s First Story retold and illustrated by Bernarda Bryson (Holt); Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins (Macmillan); Jorinda and Joringel written by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Adrienne Adams (Scribners); and All in Free but Janey written by Elizabeth Johnson, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Little)
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1967
Fiction
The Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard (Houghton)
Picture Book
London Bridge Is Falling Down by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
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