Créé par l'American Library Association dans le but de récompenser le meilleur roman américain pour enfants et pour la jeunesse, ce prix est le premier prix pour enfants au monde et porte le nom d'un libraire qui a ouvert en 1784, à Londres, une librairie exclusivement réservée aux enfants et qui est donc un des premierrs éditeurs de livres pour enfants au monde.
Romans et nouvelles
2023
Médaille Freewater Amina Luqman-Dawson Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2022
Médaille The Last Cuentista Donna Barba Higuera Levine Querido
2021
When you trap a tiger Tae Keller Random House Children's Books
2020
New Kid Jerry Craft Harper Collins
2018
Hello, Universe Erin Entrada Kelly Harper Collins
2017
The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2016
Last Stop on Market Stree ( Terminus) Matt de la Peña , ill. Christian Robinson G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers [traduit en français aux Éditions des Éléphants en 2016]
2015
The Crossover Kwame Alexander Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2014
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Flora & Ulysse : les lumineuses aventures) Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press [Trad. en français chez Les grandes personnes en 2014]
2013
The One and Only Ivan ( Le seul et unique Ivan) Katherine Applegate , ill. Patricia Castelao Harper collins Publishers [Traduit en français au Seuil en 2015]
2012
Dead End in Norvelt (Mon été mortel) Jack Gantos Farrar Straus Giroux [Traduit en français chez Les Grandes personnes en 2013]
2011
Moon over Manifest Clare Vanderpool Random House Publishing Group Delacorte Press
2010
When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books
2009
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman HarperCollins
2008
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick
2007
The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson
2006
Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
2005
Kira-Kira Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
2004
The Tale of Despereaux : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press
2003
Crispin : The Cross of Lead. Avi Hyperion
2002
A Single Shard Linda Sue Park Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin
2001
A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck Dial
2000
Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Delacorte
1999
Holes Louis Sachar Frances Foster
1998
Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Scholastic
1997
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg Jean Karl/Atheneum
1996
The Midwife's Apprentice Karen Cushman Clarion
1995
Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech HarperCollins
1994
The Giver Lois Lowry Houghton
1993
Missing May Cynthia Rylant Jackson/Orchard
1992
Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Atheneum
1991
Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli Little, Brown
1990
Number the Stars Lois Lowry Houghton
1989
Poems for Two Voices : Poems for Two Voices Paul Fleischman Harper
1988
Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman Clarion
1987
The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman Greenwillow
1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan (Harper
1985
The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley Greenwillow
1984
Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary Morrow
1983
Dicey's Song Cynthia Voigt Atheneum
1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers Nancy Willard Harcourt
1981
Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson Crowell
1980
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 Joan W. Blos Scribner
1979
The Westing Game Ellen Raskin Dutton
1978
Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Crowell
1977
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Dial
1976
The Grey King Susan Cooper McElderry/Atheneum
1975
M. C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton Macmillan
1974
The Slave Dancer Paula Fox Bradbury
1973
Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Harper
1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien Atheneum
1971
Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars Viking
1970
The High King William H. Armstrong Harper
1969
The High King Lloyd Alexander Holt
1968
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg Atheneum
1967
Up a Road Slowly Irene Hunt Follett
1966
I, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Farrar
1965
Shadow of a Bull Maia Wojciechowska Atheneum
1964
It's Like This, Cat Emily Neville Harper
1963
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle Farrar
1962
The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare Houghton
1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell Houghton
1960
Onion John Joseph Krumgold Crowell
1959
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Houghton
1958
Rifles for Watie Harold Keith Crowell
1957
Miracles on Maple Hill Virginia Sorensen Harcourt
1956
Carry on, Mr Bowditch Jean Lee Latham Hougthon Mifflin
1955
The Wheel on the school Meindert De Jong Harper
1954
... and now Miguel Joseph Krumgold Viking
1953
Secret of the Andes Ann Nolan Clark Viking
1952
Ginger Pye Eleanor Estes Harcourt
1951
Amos Fortune, free man Elizabeth Yates Dutton
1950
The Door in the wall Marguerite De Angeli Doubleday
1949
King of the wind Marguerite Henry Rand McNally
1948
The Twenty one balloons William Pène Du Bois Viking
1947
Miss Hickory Carolyn S. Bailey Viking
1946
Strawberry girl Lois Lenski Lippincott
1945
Rabbit hill Robert Lawson Viking
1944
Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes Houghton Mifflin
1943
Adam of the road Elizabeth Janet Gray Viking
1942
The Matchlock gun Walter D. Edmonds Dood, Mead
1941
Call it courage Armstrong Sperry Macmillan
1940
Daniel Boone James Daugherty Viking
1939
Thimble summer Elizabeth Enright Rinehart
1938
The White stag Kate Seredy Viking
1937
Roller skates Ruth Sowyer Viking
1936
Caddie Woodlawn Carol R. Brink Macmillan
1935
Dabry Monica Shannon Viking
1934
Invincible Louisa Vornelia Meigs Little
1933
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Elizabeth Lewis Winston
1932
Waterless mountain Laura Armer Longmans
1931
The Cat who went to heaven Elizabeth J. Coatsworth Macmillan
1930
Hitty, her first 100 years Rachel L. Field Macmillan
1929
The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly Macmillan
1928
Gay-neck Dhan Gopal Mukerji Dutton
1927
Smoky, the cowhorse Will James Scribner
1926
Shen of the Sea Arthur B. Chrisman Dutton
1925
Tales from Silver Lands Charles J. Finger Doubleday
1924
The Dark frigate Charles B. Hawes Little
1923
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle Hugh Lofting Stokes
1922
The Story of mankind Hendrik van Loon Boni & Liveright
Merci Suárez Changes Gears Meg Medina Candlewick Press