Festivals Past and Present
1980
Jean Fritz
Harold Keith
William Scott
Nancy Renfro
1981
Bessie Holland Heck
Jean Craighead George
Steven Kellogg
1982
Robert Burch
Marcia Brown
Hellen Sattler
1983
Betsy Byars
Jack Bickam
Alice Provenson
1984
Mary Francis Shura
Glen Rounds
Karla Kuskin
1985
Alvin Schwartz
Avi
Gerald McDermott
1986
Leonard Everett Fisher
Byrd Baylor
Bill Brittain
1987
Trina Schart Hyman
Patricia MacLachlan
Sid Fleischman
1988
Susan Jeffers
Paul Fleischman
Katherine Paterson
1989
Alfred Slote
Russell Freedman
Ed Young
1990
Pam Conrad
Jane Yolen
Paul Zelinsky
1991
Kathryn Lasky
Lois Lowry
Thomas Locker
1992
Patricia Lauber
Elaine L. Konigsburg
Jerry Pinkney
1993
Phyllis Naylor
Diane Stanley
David Weisner
1994
Emily Arnold McCully
Ashley F. Bryan
Marion Dane Bauer
1995
Lois Ehlert
Floyd Cooper
Walter Dean Myers
1996
Joseph Bruchac
Sharon Creech
Barry Moser
1997
Paul Zindel
Janet Stevens
Ann Turner
1998
(With Celebration of Books)
Joyce Carol Thomas
Steven Kellogg
Janet Stevens
1999
Joanne Ryder
Laurence Yep
Rosemary Wells
2000
Kevin Henkes
Will Hobbs
Douglas Florian
2001
Avi
Gail Gibbons
Nikki Grimes
2002
Cynthia DeFelice
Paul Janeczko
Steven Kellogg
2003
Jim Arnosky
Denise Fleming
Geraldine McCaughrean
2004
Susan Cooper
Kimberly Willis Holt
Walter Wick