2000s

Honor Books:
• Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt and Company)
• Zen Shorts written and illustrated by Jon J Muth (Scholastic Press)
• Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-air Balloon Ride written and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman (An Anne Schwartz Book from Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster)
• The Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems illustrated by Beckie Prange, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Company)

Honor Books:
• The Red Book by Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin Company)
• Coming on Home Soon illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Son's/Penguin Young Readers Group)
  
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems. (Hyperion Books for Children)

Honor Books:
• Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt, Inc.)
  
• What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? illustrated and written by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. (Houghton Mifflin Company)
  
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems. (Hyperion)

Honor Books:
• The Spider and the Fly illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, written by Mary Howitt (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
  
• Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty (Henry Holt & Co.)
  
• Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney (SeaStar Books, a division of North-South Books Inc.)

Honor Books:
• The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins illustrated by Brian Selznick, written by Barbara Kerley (Scholastic)
  
• Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Doreen Rappaport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
  
• The Stray Dog by Marc Simont (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:
• Casey at the Bat illustrated by Christopher Bing, written by Ernest Thayer (Handprint)
  
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type illustrated by Betsy Lewin, written by Doreen Cronin (Simon & Schuster)
  
• Olivia by Ian Falconer (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• A Child's Calendar illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, text by John Updike (Holiday House)
  
• Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
  
• When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang (Scholastic)
  
• The Ugly Duckling illustrated by Jerry Pinkney Text: Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Jerry Pinkney (Morrow)

1990s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and the Orchestra illustrated by Brian Pinkney, text by Andrea Davis Pinkney(Hyperion)
  
• No, David! by David Shannon (Scholastic)
  
• Snow by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar)
  
• Tibet Through the Red Box by Peter Sis (Frances Foster)

Honor Books:
• The Gardener illustrated by David Small, text: Sarah Stewart (Farrar)
  
• Harlem illustrated by Christopher Myers
  Text: Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
  
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Hush! A Thai Lullaby illustrated by Holly Meade; text: Minfong Ho (Melanie Kroupa/Orchard Books)
  
• The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier (Orchard Books)
  
• The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
  
• Starry Messenger by Peter Sís (Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux)

Honor Books:
• Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson (Viking)
  
• Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman; text: Lloyd Moss (Simon & Schuster)
  
• The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text: Robert D. San Souci (Simon & Schuster)
  
• Tops & Bottoms, adapted and illustrated by Janet Stevens (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
• John Henry, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Julius Lester (Dial)
  
• Swamp Angel, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; text: Anne Issacs (Dutton)
  
• Time Flies by Eric Rohmann (Crown)

Honor Books:
• Peppe the Lamplighter, illustrated by Ted Lewin; text: Elisa Bartone (Lothrop)
• In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming (Holt)
• Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott (Harcourt)
• Owen by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
• Yo! Yes? illustrated by Chris Raschka; text: edited by Richard Jackson (Orchard)

Honor Books:
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, illustrated by Lane Smith; text: Jon Scieszka (Viking)
• Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young (Philomel Books)
• Working Cotton, illustrated by Carole Byard; text: Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)

Honor Book:
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Crown Publishers, Inc., a Random House Co.)

Honor Books:
• Puss in Boots, illustrated by Fred Marcellino; text: Charles Perrault, trans. by Malcolm Arthur (Di Capua/Farrar)
• "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)

Honor Books:
• Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet (Houghton)
• Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert (Lippincott)
• The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Robert D. San Souci (Dial)
• Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: Eric Kimmel (Holiday House)

1980s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, illustrated by Allen Say; text: Diane Snyder (Houghton)
• Free Fall by David Wiesner (Lothrop)
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall (Dial)
• Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Patricia C. McKissack (Knopf)

Honor Book:
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe (Lothrop)

Honor Books:
• The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi (Little, Brown)
• Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald (Bradbury)
• Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)

Honor Books:
• The Relatives Came, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
• King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, illustrated by Don Wood; text: Audrey Wood (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
• Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; text: retold by Rika Lesser (Dodd)
  
• Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri (Greenwillow)
• The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend, retold and illustrated by John Steptoe (Lothrop)

Honor Books:
• Little Red Riding Hood, retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Holiday)
• Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang (Greenwillow)

Honor Books:
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)
  
• When I Was Young in the Mountains, illustrated by Diane Goode; text: Cynthia Rylant (Dutton)

Honor Books:
• Where the Buffaloes Begin, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Olaf Baker (Warne)
  
• On Market Street, illustrated by Anita Lobel; text: Arnold Lobel (Greenwillow)
• Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
• A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen; text: Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
• The Bremen-Town Musicians, retold and illustrated by Ilse Plume (Doubleday)
• The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang (Four Winds)
• Mice Twice by Joseph Low (McElderry/Atheneum)
• Truck by Donald Crews (Greenwillow)

Honor Books:
• Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora (Greenwillow)
• The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
• The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar)

1970s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Freight Train by Donald Crews (Greenwillow)
• The Way to Start a Day, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)

Honor Books:
• Castle by David Macaulay (Houghton)
• It Could Always Be Worse, retold and illustrated by Margot Zemach (Farrar)

Honor Books:
• The Amazing Bone by William Steig (Farrar)
• The Contest, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Greenwillow)
• Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein (Dial)
• The Golem: A Jewish Legend by Beverly Brodsky McDermott (Lippincott)
• Hawk, I'm Your Brother, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)

Honor Books:
• The Desert is Theirs, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)
• Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola (Prentice-Hall)

Honor Books:
• Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text: Muriel Feelings (Dial)

Honor Books:
• Three Jovial Huntsmen by Susan Jeffers (Bradbury)
• Cathedral by David Macaulay (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott (Holt)
• Hosie's Alphabet, illustrated by Leonard Baskin; text: Hosea, Tobias & Lisa Baskin (Viking)
• Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert; text: translated by Randall Jarrell, retold from the Brothers Grimm (Farrar)
• When Clay Sings, illustrated by Tom Bahti; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)

Honor Books:
• Hildilid's Night, illustrated by Arnold Lobel; text: Cheli Durán Ryan (Macmillan)
• If All the Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska (Macmillan)
• Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text: Muriel Feelings (Dial)

Honor Books:
• The Angry Moon, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by William Sleator (Atlantic)
• Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (Harper)

Honor Books:
• Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats (Macmillan)
  Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
• Pop Corn & Ma Goodness, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker; text: Edna Mitchell Preston (Viking)
• Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle (Viking)
  
• The Judge: An Untrue Tale, illustrated by Margot Zemach; text: Harve Zemach (Farrar)

1960s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: Elphinstone Dayrell (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Frederick by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
• Seashore Story by Taro Yashima (Viking)
• The Emperor and the Kite, illustrated by Ed Young; text: Jane Yolen (World)

Honor Book:
• One Wide River to Cross, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)

Honor Books:
• Hide and Seek Fog, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
• Just Me by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Tom Tit Tot, retold and illustrated by Evaline Ness (Scribner)

Honor Books:
• Rain Makes Applesauce, illustrated by Marvin Bileck; text: Julian Scheer (Holiday)
• The Wave, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: Margaret Hodges (Houghton)
• A Pocketful of Cricket, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Rebecca Caudill (Holt)

Honor Books:
• Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
• All in the Morning Early, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclaire Alger] (Holt)
• Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Philip Reed (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• The Sun is a Golden Earring, illustrated by Bernarda Bryson; text: Natalia M. Belting (Holt)
• Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Charlotte Zolotow (Harper)

Honor Books:
• Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
• Little Bear's Visit, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Else H. Minarik (Harper)
• The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey (Scribner)

• Inch by Inch, by Leo Lionni (Obolensky)

Honor Books:
• Houses from the Sea, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey (Scribner)
• The Moon Jumpers, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Janice May Udry (Harper)

1950s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie by Antonio Frasconi (Harcourt)
• What Do You Say, Dear? illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Sesyle Joslin (W. R. Scott)
• Umbrella by Taro Yashima (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman (Viking)
• Anatole and the Cat, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus (McGraw-Hill)

Honor Books:
• Mr. Penny's Race Horse by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• 1 is One by Tasha Tudor (Walck)
• Anatole, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus (McGraw-Hill)
• Gillespie and the Guards, illustrated by James Daugherty; text: Benjamin Elkin (Viking)
• Lion by William Pène du Bois (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Play With Me, by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Crow Boy by Taro Yashima (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes, illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
• Wheel On The Chimney, illustrated by Tibor Gergely; text: Margaret Wise Brown (Lippincott)
• The Thanksgiving Story, illustrated by Helen Sewell; text: Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)

Honor Books:
• Journey Cake, Ho! illustrated by Robert McCloskey; text: Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
• When Will the World Be Mine? illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Miriam Schlein (W. R. Scott)
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: Hans Christian Andersen, translated by M. R. James (Scribner)
• A Very Special House, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Ruth Krauss (Harper)
• Green Eyes by A. Birnbaum (Capitol)

Honor Books:
• Puss in Boots, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
• Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals by Fritz Eichenberg (Harcourt)
• The Storm Book, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Charlotte Zolotow (Harper)
• Five Little Monkeys by Juliet Kepes (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Skipper John's Cook by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• All Falling Down, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Gene Zion (Harper)
• Bear Party by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
• Feather Mountain by Elizabeth Olds (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Dick Whittington and his Cat by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• The Two Reds, ill. by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)
• If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
• The Most Wonderful Doll in the World, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley (Lippincott)
• T-Bone, the Baby Sitter by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)

Honor Books:
• America's Ethan Allen, illustrated by Lynd Ward; text: Stewart Holbrook (Houghton)
• The Wild Birthday Cake, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis (Doubleday)
• The Happy Day, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Ruth Krauss) (Harper)
• Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
• Henry Fisherman by Marcia Brown

1940s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
• All Around the Town, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley (Lippincott)
• Juanita by Leo Politi (Scribner)
• Fish in the Air by Kurt Wiese (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Stone Soup by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
• Bambino the Clown by Georges Schreiber (Viking)
• Roger and the Fox, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis (Doubleday)
• Song of Robin Hood, illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton; text: edited by Anne Malcolmson (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Rain Drop Splash, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
• Boats on the River, illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum; text: Marjorie Flack (Viking)
• Timothy Turtle, illustrated by Tony Palazzo; text: Al Graham (Welch)
• Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi (Scribner)
• Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; text: selected by Opal Wheeler (Dutton)

Honor Books:
• Little Lost Lamb, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday)
• Sing Mother Goose, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; music: Opal Wheeler (Dutton)
• My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, illustrated by Ruth Gannett; text: Becky Reyher (Lothrop)
• You Can Write Chinese by Kurt Wiese (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Mother Goose, illustrated by Tasha Tudor (Oxford University Press)
• In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
• The Christmas Anna Angel, illustrated by Kate Seredy; text: Ruth Sawyer (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Small Rain: Verses From The Bible, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: selected by Jessie Orton Jones (Viking)
• Pierre Pigeon, illustrated by Arnold E. Bare; text: Lee Kingman (Houghton)
• The Mighty Hunter by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
• A Child's Good Night Book, illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Margaret Wise Brown (W. R. Scott)
• Good-Luck Horse, illustrated by Plato Chan; text: Chih-Yi Chan (Whittlesey)

Honor Books:
• Dash and Dart by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
• Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)

Honor Books:
• An American ABC by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)
• In My Mother's House, illustrating by Velino Herrera; text: Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
• Paddle-To-The-Sea by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
• Nothing At All, by Wanda Gág (Coward)

Honor Book:
• April's Kittens by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)

Honor Books:
• Cock-a-Doodle Doo by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
• The Ageless Story by Lauren Ford (Dodd)

1930s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty (Viking)
• Barkis by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)
• The Forest Pool by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág (Coward)
• Wee Gillis, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: Munro Leaf (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Four and Twenty Blackbirds, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: compiled by Helen Dean Fish (Stokes)
• Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale, retold and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff (Viking)