1968 - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg
1963 - A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
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