Literary Award Winners Left Column

*2020: Floyd Cooper

( *awarded posthumously in 2023 due to COVID-19)

2018: Marilyn Nelson

2017: Pat Mora

2016: Nikki Grimes

2015: David Macaulay

2014: Christopher Paul Curtis

2013: Angela Johnson

2012: Alma Flor Ada

2011: Nikki Giovanni

2010: Pam Muñoz Ryan

2009: Jacqueline Woodson & Barry Moser

2008: Russell Freedman

2007: Eloise Greenfield

2006: Allen Say

2005: Joseph Bruchac

2004: Arnold Adoff

2003: Ashley Bryan

2002: Leo and Diane Dillon

2001: Patricia C. McKissack

2000: Jerry Pinkney

1999: Walter Dean Myers