2017
Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel
Chris Grabenstein
2016
Teddy Mars: Almost a World Record Breaker
Molly B. Burnham
2015
Evil Librarian
Michelle Knudsen
2014
Openly Straight
Bill Konigsberg
2013
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
by Mo Willems
2012
The Fouth Stall
By Chris Rylander
2011
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
By Alan Silberberg
2010
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have
Allen Zadoff
2009
As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running For President
Donna Gephart
2007
Clementine
Sara Pennypacker
2006
Absolutely Positively Not
David LaRochelle
2005
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
2004
Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Lisa Yee
2003
Sid Fleischman