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Established in 1950, The National Book Awards were originally established by a consortium of Publishers to highlight exceptional books written by American Authors. Over the years there have been a number of categories in which books could be submitted for consideration.
From 1996 up to today, Young People's Literature has been the category that encompassed Children's Books
From 1970 - 1983, there was a dedicated Children's Books Category, further broken down into sub-categories during the 1980's.
We are highlighting only the Children/Young Adult winners and runners up. Award Winners are in bold lettering.
2007
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (WINNER)
Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow
Brian
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
2006
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
M.T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The
Pox Party (WINNER)
Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
Patricia McCormick, Sold
Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
2005
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Jeanne Birdsall - The Penderwicks (WINNER)
Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be
Chris Lynch, Inexcusable
Walter Dean Myers, Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings
2004
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Pete Hautman – Godless (WINNER)
Deb Caletti – Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Laban Carrick Hill – Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Sheila P. Moses – The Legend of Buddy Bush
Julie Anne Peters – Luna: A Novel
2003
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Polly
Horvath– The Canning Season (WINNER)
Paul
Fleischman – Breakout
Jim Murphy – An American Plague: The Time and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of
1793
Richard Peck – The River Between Us
Jacqueline
Woodson – Locomotion
2002
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Nancy Farmer – The House of the Scorpion (Winner)
M.T. Anderson – Feed
Naomi Shihab Nye – 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Elizabeth Partridge – This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Jacqueline
Woodson – Hush
2001
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Virginia Euwer Wolff – True Believer: A Novel in the Make Lemonade Trilogy (Winner)
Kate
DiCamillo – The Tiger Rising
Phillip Hoose – We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History
An Na – A Step from Heaven
Marilyn Nelson – Carver: A Life in Poems
2000
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Gloria Whelan – Homeless Bird (WINNER)
Adam Bagdasarian – Forgotten Fire
Michael Cadnum – The Book of the Lion
Carolyn Coman – Many Stones
Jerry Stanley – Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California
1999
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Kimberly Willis Holt – When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (WINNER)
Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak
Louise Erdrich – The Birchbark House
Polly
Horvath – The Trolls
Walter Dean Myers – Monster
1998
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Louis Sachar – Holes (WINNER)
Ann Cameron – The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
Jack Gantos – Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Anita Lobel – No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
Richard Peck – A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
1997
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Han Nolan – Dancing on the Edge (WINNER)
Brock Cole – The Facts Speak for Themselves
Adele Griffin – Sons of Liberty
Mary Ann McGuigan – Where You Belong
Tor Seidler– Mean Margaret
1996
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Victor Martinez – Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida (WINNER)
Carolyn Coman – What Jamie Saw
Nancy
Farmer – A Girl Named Disaster
Helen Kim – The Long Season of Rain
Han Nolan – Send Me Down a Miracle
1983
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, FICTION (hardcover)
Jean
Fritz – Homesick:
My Own Story (WINNER)
Lloyd Alexander – The Kestrel
Edward Fenton – The Refugee Summer
Virginia
Hamilton – Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Zibby Oneal – A Formal Feeling
1983
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, FICTION (paperback)
Paula Fox – A Place Apart
Joyce Carol Thomas – Marked by Fire
Judy Blume – Tiger Eyes
Sue Ellen Bridgers – Notes for another Life
Lois Lowry – Anastasia Again!
1983
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, NONFICTION
James Cross Giblin – Chimney Sweeps
Linda Grant De Pauw – Seafaring Women
Patricia Lauber – Journey to the Planets
John Nance – Lobo of the Tasaday
Judith St. George – The Brooklyn Bridge
1983
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS (hardcover)
Barbara Cooney – Miss Rumphius
William
Steig – Doctor De Soto
Marcia Brown – Shadow
Karla Kuskin; Marc
Simont, ill. – The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Cynthia Rylant; Diane Goode, ill. – When I Was Young in the Mountains
1983
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS (paperback)
Mary Ann Hoberman; Betty Fraser, ill. – A House Is a House for Me
Steven Kellogg – Pinkerton, Behave!
Peter Koeppen – Robert Frost's A Swinger of Birches
Edward Marshall – Space Case
Ellen Shire – The Bungling Ballerinas
1982
CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (hardcover)
Lloyd Alexander - Westmark
Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Deborah Hautzig - Second Star to the Right
Mildred
D. Taylor - Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Cynthia
Voigt – Homecoming
1982
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, FICTION (paperback)
Ouida Sebestyen - Words By Heart
Lloyd Alexander - The Wizard in the Tree
Katherine Paterson - Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson - The Master Puppeteer
1982
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, NONFICTION
Susan Bonners - A Penguin Year
Jean Fritz – Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold
James Howe; Mal Warshaw, photos – The Hospital Book
Patricia Lauber; James Wexler, photos – Seeds: Pop, Stick and Glide
Melvin B. Zisfein; Robert Andrew Parker, Ill. – Flight: A Panorama of Aviation
1982
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (hardcover)
Maurice Sendak - Outside Over There
Olaf Baker; Stephen Gammell, ill. - Where the Buffaloes Begin
Arnold Lobel; Anita Lobel, ill. - On Market Street
Chris Van Allsburg - Jumanji
Nancy Willard; Alice and Martin Provensen, ill. - A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and
Experienced Travelers
1982
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (paperback)
Peter Spier - Noah's Ark
Muriel Feelings; Tom Feelings, ill. - Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Jane Langton - The Fledgling
Alice and Martin Provensen, ill. - A Peaceable Kingdom: The Shaker Abcedarius
William Sleator; Blair Lent, ill. - The Angry Moon
Rosemary Wells - Stanley and Rhoda
1981
CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (hardcover)
Betsy Byars - The Night Swimmers
Paula Fox - A Place Apart
Katherine Paterson - Jacob Have I Loved
Ouida Sebestyen - Far From Home
Jan Slepian - The Alfred Summer
1981
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, FICTION (paperback)
Beverly Cleary - Ramona and Her Mother
Lloyd Alexander - The High King
Sue Ellen Bridgers - All Together Now
S.E. Hinton - Tex
Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game
1981
CHILDREN’S BOOKS, NONFICTION (hardcover)
Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali - Oh, Boy! Babies
Jean Fritz - Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
William Jaspersohn - The Ballpark
Milton Meltzer - All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
Peter Spier - People
1980
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (hardcover)
Joan W. Blos - A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal
David Kherdian - The Road from Home
E. L. Konisgburg - Throwing Shadows
Ouida Sebestyen - Words by Heart
1980
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (paperback)
Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Myron Levoy - Alan and Naomi
Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad Are Friends
Katherine Paterson - The Great Gilly Hopkins
Maurice Sendak - Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life
1979
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Katherine Paterson - The Great Gilly Hopkins
Lloyd Alexander - The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
Bill and Vera Cleaver - Queen of Hearts
Sid Fleischman - Humbug Mountain
Paula Fox - The Little Swineherd and Other Tales
1978
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Judith and Herbert Kohl - The View from the Oak
Betty Sue Cummings - Hew Against the Grain
Ilse Koehn - Mischling, Second Degree
David McCord - One at a Time
William Steig - Caleb & Kate
1977
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Katherine Paterson - The Master Puppeteer
Milton Meltzer - Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
John Ney - Ox Under Pressure
Mildred D. Taylor - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Barbara Wersba - Tunes for a Small Harmonica
1976
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Walter D. Edmonds - Bert Breen's Barn
Eleanor Cameron - To the Green Mountains
Norma Faber - As I Was Crossing Boston Common
Isabelle Holland - Of Love and Death and Other Journeys
David McCord - The Star in the Pail
Nicolasa Mohr - El Bronx Remembered
Brenda Wilkinson - Ludell
1975
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Virginia Hamilton - M.C. Higgins the Great
Natalie Babbitt - The Devil's Storybook
Bruce Buchenholz - Doctor in the Zoo
Bruce Clements - I Tell a Lie Every So Often
James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier - My Brother Sam is Dead
Jason and Ettagale Laure - Joi Bangla! The Children of Bangladesh
Milton Meltzer - Remember the Days
Milton Meltzer - World of Our Fathers
Adrienne Richard - Wings
Mary Stolz - The Edge of Next Year
1974
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Eleanor Cameron - The Court of the Stone Children
Alice Childress - A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Bill and Vera Cleaver - The Whys and Wherefores of Littabelle Lee
Julia Cunningham - The Treasure is the Rose
Bette Greene - Summer of My German Soldier
Kristin Hunter - Guests in the Promised Land
E. L. Konisgburg - A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
Norma Fox Mazer - A Figure of Speech
F.N. Monjo - Poor Richard in France
Harve Zemach - Duffy and the Devil
1973
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Farthest Shore
Betsy Byars - The House of Wings
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire - Trolls
Jean Craighead George - Julie of the Wolves
Betty Jean Lifton and Thomas C. Fox - Children of Vietnam
Georgess McHargue - The Impossible People
Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Witches of Worm
William Steig - Dominic
1972
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Donald Barthelme - The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Thithering Djinn
Jan Adkins - The Art and Industry of Sandcastles
John Donovan - Wild in the World
Virginia Hamilton - The Planet of Junior Brown
June Jordan - His Own Where
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Tombs of Atuan
Robert C. O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Chela Duran Ryan - Hildilid's Night
Marilyn Sachs - The Bear's House
William Steig - Amos & Boris
Clyde Watson - Father Fox's Pennyrhymes
1971
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Lloyd Alexander - Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
Bill and Vera Cleaver - Grover
Paula Fox - Blowfish Live in the Sea
Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad Are Friends
E.B. White - The Trumpet of the Swan
1970
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Isaac Bashevis Singer - A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
Bill and Vera Cleaver - Where the Lilies Bloom
Edna Mitchell Preston - Popcorn and Ma Goodness
William Steig - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Edwin Tunis - The Young United States, 1783-1830
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