2011 Winner
by Tammi Sauer.
New York: Sterling, c2009.
Determined to win tickets to an Elvis Poultry concert, hens Marge and Lola enter the Barnyard Talent Show, then, while the ducks who usually win the contest jeer, they test out their abilities.
2010 Winner
by Robie Harris.
New York: Orchard Books, 2008.
At bedtime, a young boy who cannot find his favorite book imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.
2009 Winner
by Nancy Coffelt.
New York: Little, Brown, 2007.
Shuttled repeatedly between the homes of her divorced parents, a little girl's only constant companion is her faithful dog.
2008 Winner
by Antoinette Portis.
New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real—when the imagination takes over and inside a cardboard box, a child is transported to a world where anything is possible.
2007 Winner
by Lois Ehlert.
Orlando, FL. Harcourt, c2005.
Presented on die-cut pages, this story tells about how a man made of leaves blows away and travels wherever the wind takes him.
2006 Winner
by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Marc Brown.
New York: Knopf, 2004.
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
