2016
Nancy Bo Flood for Soldier Sisters, Fly Home (Charlesbridge)
Kathleen Burkinshaw for The Last Cherry Blossom (Sky Pony Press)
2015
Donna Janell Bowman for Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Taught the World About Kindness (Lee and Low, 2016)
2014
Stacey Lee for Under a Painted Sky (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015)
Don Tate for Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton of Chapel Hill (Peachtree Publishers, 2015)
2013
Joan Brandsfield Graham for The Poem that Will Not End: Fun with Poetic Forms and Voices (Two Lions, 2014)
2012
Anne Bryan Westrick for Brotherhood (Puffin, 2014)
Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson for The School the Aztec Eagles Built (Lee and Low, 2016)
2011
Hilary Graham for Reunited (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
Sherry Shahan for Ice Island (Yearling, 2013)