Literary Award Winners
*2020: Floyd Cooper
( *awarded posthumously in 2023 due to COVID-19)
2018: Marilyn Nelson
2017: Pat Mora
2016: Nikki Grimes
2015: David Macaulay
2014: Christopher Paul Curtis
2013: Angela Johnson
2012: Alma Flor Ada
2011: Nikki Giovanni
2010: Pam Muñoz Ryan
2009: Jacqueline Woodson & Barry Moser
2008: Russell Freedman
2007: Eloise Greenfield
2006: Allen Say
2005: Joseph Bruchac
2004: Arnold Adoff
2003: Ashley Bryan
2002: Leo and Diane Dillon
2001: Patricia C. McKissack
2000: Jerry Pinkney
1999: Walter Dean Myers
