2017 - Winner(s)

The 2017 winner is Nikki Grimes, whose award-winning works include “Bronx Masquerade,” which won the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 2003, and “Words with...

2016 - Winner(s)

Author and Illustrator Jerry Pinkney is the winner of the 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honoring an author or illustrator, published in the United...

2015 - Winner(s)

Crews has elevated books for very young children to an art form. His bold illustrations raise the ordinary into stylized representations. The ingenious use of...

2013 - Winner(s)

Paterson was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents and grew up in the American South, moving eighteen times before she was 18. After...

2011 - Winner(s)

2009 - Winner(s)

His numerous works include “Dancing Granny,” “Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum,” and “Beautiful Blackbird.”

Born in 1923 in New York City, Bryan has been painting...

2007 - Winner(s)

"Marshall conveyed a world of emotion with the placement of a dot or the wrinkle of a line," said Wilder Award Committee Chair Roger Sutton. "In...

2005 - Winner(s)

"Across a variety of literary genres, Laurence Yep explores the dilemma of the cultural outsider," said Committee Chair Janice M. Del Negro. "The universality of this...

2003 - Winner(s)

"Eric Carle's visual observations of the natural world encourage the imagination and often mirror the larger changes in a young child's development and experience," said...

2001 - Winner(s)

"Milton Meltzer's substantial and lasting contribution to American literature for children spans five decades and continues to be a model for informational writing today," said Wilder...

1998 - Winner(s)

Freedman was cited for his body of work, which includes the 1988 John Newbery Medal Award winner Lincoln: A Photobiography, published by Clarion Books. Two...

1995 - Winner(s)

According to Letitia Wilson, chair of the Wilder Selection Committee, "Hamilton draws on the specifics of her own African-American and American Indian heritage to illuminate...

1992 - Winner(s)

Brown is cited for three books: Once a Mouse (1962), Cinderella (1955), and Shadow (1983), all published by Scribner's and edited by Clare Costello. She...

1989 - Winner(s)

"With vitality and energy, grace of writing, historical accuracy, and tremendous feeling for place and character, Elizabeth George Speare has brought historical fiction for children...

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