1962 - The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare

1961 - The Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

1960 - Onion John - Joseph Krumgold

1959 - The Witch of Black Bird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare

1958 - Rifles for Watie - Harold Keith

1957 - Miracles on Maple Hill - Virginia Sorensen

1956 - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lee Latham

1955 - The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong
1954 - ...And Now Miguel - Joseph Krumgold
1953 - Secret of the Andes - Ann Nolan Clark
1952 -  Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes
1951 - Amos Fortune, Free Man - Elizabeth Yates
1950 - The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli
1949 - King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry
1948 - The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene Dubois
1947 - Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946 - Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski
1945 - Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson
1944 - Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
1943 - Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Gray
1942:  The Matchlock Gun - Walter D. Edmonds

1941:  Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry

1940:  Daniel Boone - James Daugherty

1939:  Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright

1938:  The White Stag - Kate Seredy

1937:  Roller Skates - Ruth Sawyer

1936:  Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink

1935:  Dobry - Monica Shannon

1934:  Invincible Louisa - Comelia Meigs

1933:  Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - Elizabeth Lewis 

1932:  Waterless Mountain - Laura A. Armer

1931:  The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth

1930:  Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field

1929:  The Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric P. Kelly

1928:  Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon - Dhan Gopal Mukerji

1927:  Smoky, the Cowhorse - Will James

1926:  Shen of the Sea - Arthur Bowie Chrisman

1925:  Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Finger

1924:  The Dark Frigate - Charles B. Hawes

1923:  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting

1922:  The Story of Mankind - Hendrik Van Loon