| 2008 | Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley, Carol Heyer, Scott Goto
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| 2007 | Sweet Tooth by Margie Palatini |
| 2006 | Arrowhawk by Lola Schaefer |
| 2005 | Skippyjonjones by Judy Schachner |
| 2004 | Togo by Robert J. Blake
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| 2003 | Widget, by Lyn Rossiter McFarland |
| 2002 | Cosmo Zooms, by Arthur Howard |
| 2001 | Hooway for Wodney Wat, by Helen Lester, illus. by Lynn Munsinger |
| 2000 | Akiak; a tale of the Iditarod, by Robert Blake |
| 1999 | Secret Shortcut, by Mark Teague |
| 1998 | Heart of a Tiger, by Marcia Diane Arnold, illus. Jamichael Henterly |
| 1997 | Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm, by Jerdin Nolen |
| 1996 | Soap, Soap! Don't Forget the soap, by Tom Birdseye |
| 1995 | Tiger, by Judy Allen |
| 1994 | The Dog Who Had Kittens, by Polly M. Robertus |
| 1993 | The Great White Man-Eating Shark, by M. Mahy |
| 1992 | Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, by Eric Kimmel |
| 1991 | Two Bad Ants, by Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1990 | Amos the Story of an Old Dog and His Couch, by Susan Seligson |
| 1989 | Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, by Joanna Cole |
| 1988 | King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, by Audry Wood |
| 1987 | In a Dark Dark Room, by Alvin Schwartz |
| 1986 | Unicorn and the Lake, by Marianna Mayer |
| 1985 | Nimby, by Jasper Tomkins |
| 1984 | Jumanji, by Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1983 | Space Case, by Edward Marshall |
| 1982 | Cross Country Cat, by Mary Calhoun |