# List of Sydney Taylor Book Award recipients

The Sydney Taylor Book Award, established in 1968, recognizes the best in Jewish children's literature. Medals are awarded annually for outstanding books that authentically portray the Jewish experience.
This list provides Sydney Taylor Book Award recipients, not including manuscript and body-of-work awards. The Children's Book Award was uncategorized from 1968 to 1980, after which two categories were presented: Younger Readers and Older Readers. In 1985, a Teen Reader category was introduced, though it has not been presented annually. In 2009 and 2010, an All Ages Award was also presented.

## Award categories
### Uncategorized (1968–1980)

Award recipients :
| Year | Author | Book | Result |
| 1968 | Esther Hautzig | The Endless Steppe | Winner |
| 1969 | Shulamith Ish-Kishor | Our Eddie | Winner |
| 1970 | Suzanne Lange | The Year | Winner |
| 1971 | No Award Given | | |
| 1972 | No Award Given | | |
| 1973 | Yuri Suhl | Uncle Misha's Partisans | Winner |
| 1974 | No Award Given | | |
| 1975 | Marietta Moskin | Waiting for Mama | Winner |
| 1976 | Milton Meltzer | Never to Forget | Winner |
| 1977 | Anita Heyman | Exit from Home | Winner |
| 1978 | Doris Orgel | The Devil in Vienna | Winner |
| 1979 | Carol Snyder | Ike and Mama and the Block Wedding | Winner |
| 1980 | Leonard Everett Fisher | A Russian Farewell | Winner |

### Younger Reader / Picture Book (1981–present)

In 2020, the "Younger Reader" category was redefined as "Picture Book".
Award recipients :
| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Result |
| 1981 | Barbara Cohen | Michael J. Deraney | Yussel's Prayer | Winner |
| 1982 | Linda Heller | Linda Heller | The Castle on Hester Street | Winner |
| 1983 | Barbara Pomerantz | Leon Lurie | Bubby, Me, and Memories | Winner |
| 1984 | Amy Schwartz | Amy Schwartz | Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks | Winner |
| 1985 | Florence B. Freedman | Robert Andrew Parker | Brothers | Winner |
| 1985 | Yaffa Ganz | Harvey Klineman | The Story of Mimmy and Simmy | Notable |
| 1985 | Leon Garfield | Michael Bragg | The King in the Garden | Notable |
| 1985 | Marilyn Hirsh | Marilyn Hirsh | I Love Passover | Notable |
| 1985 | Ruth Schild Karlinsky | Ruth Schild Karlinsky | My First Book of Mitzvos | Notable |
| 1985 | Riki Levinson | Diane Goode | Watch the Stars Come Out | Notable |
| 1985 | Mildred Phillips | Margot Zemach | The Sign in Mendel's Window | Notable |
| 1985 | Barbara Pomerantz | Donna Ruff | Who Will Lead the Kiddush? | Notable |
| 1985 | Diana Herman Rosenfeld | Yoel Kenny | A Tree Full of Mitzvos | Notable |
| 1985 | Diana Herman Rosenfeld | Leonid Pinchevsky and Eliyahu Meshchaninov | The Very Best Place for a Penny | Notable |
| 1985 | Glen Rounds | Glen Rounds | Washday on Noah's Ark | Notable |
| 1985 | Sheila Segal | Joel Iskowitz | Joshua's Dream | Notable |
| 1986 | Marilyn Hirsh | Devis Grebu | Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath | Winner |
| 1986 | Warwick Hutton | Warwick Hutton | Moses in the Bulrushes | Notable |
| 1986 | Mindy Avra Portnoy | Steffi Karen Rubin | Ima on the Bima: My Mommy is a Rabbi | Notable |
| 1986 | Pininnah Schramm | Jacqueline Kahane | The Big Sukkah | Notable |
| 1986 | Amy Schwartz | Amy Schwartz | Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm | Notable |
| 1987 | David A. Adler | Rose Eichenbaum | The Number on My Grandfather's Arm | Winner |
| 1987 | Judith Caseley | Judith Caseley | Apple Pie and Onions | Notable |
| 1987 | Barbara Cohen | Anatoly Ivanov | Even Higher | Notable |
| 1987 | Roberta Goldshlag Cooks | Susan Martz | Gittel and the Bell | Notable |
| 1987 | Tomie dePaola | Tomie dePaola | Queen Esther | Notable |
| 1987 | Richard Rosenblum | Richard Rosenblum | My Sister's Wedding | Notable |
| 1988 | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Keeping Quilt | Winner |
| 1988 | Yaffa Ganz | Harvey Klineman | From Head to Toe: A Book About You | Honor |
| 1988 | Arthur Geisert | Arthur Geisert | The Ark | Honor |
| 1988 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Beni's First Chanukah | Honor |
| 1988 | Steven Bayer and Ilene Bayer | Marlene Lobell Ruthen and Joanne Strauss | Rachel and Mischa | Notable |
| 1988 | Giora Carmi | Giora Carmi | And Shira Imagined | Notable |
| 1988 | Barbara Cohen | Susan Jeanne Cohen | The Donkey's Story: A Bible Story | Notable |
| 1988 | Ellie Gellman | Barbara Gellner | Justin's Hebrew Name | Notable |
| 1988 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Seymour Chwast | Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale | Notable |
| 1989 | Esther Silverstein Blanc | Tennessee Dixon | Berchick | Winner |
| 1989 | Nancy Karkowsky | Shelly O. Haas | Grandma's Soup | Honor |
| 1989 | Eric A. Kimmel | Trina Schart Hyman | Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins | Honor |
| 1989 | Richard Rosenbloom | Richard Rosenbloom | The Old Synagogue | Honor |
| 1989 | David A. Adler | Joan Halpern | Malke's Secret Recipe: A Chanukah Story from Chelm | Notable |
| 1989 | Amy Ehrlich | Ori Sherman | The Story of Hanukkah | Notable |
| 1989 | Harriet Feder | Joan Halpern | Not Yet, Elijah | Notable |
| 1989 | Florence Cassen Mayers | | ABC: The Alef-Bet Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Notable |
| 1989 | Mindy Avra Portnoy | Shelly O. Haas | Mommy Never Went to Hebrew School | Notable |
| 1989 | Marilyn Singer | Ruth Rosner | Minnie's Yom Kippur Birthday | Notable |
| 1990 | Eric A. Kimmel | Giora Carmi | The Chanukah Guest | Winner |
| 1990 | Harriet Feder | Katherine Janus Kahn | Judah Who Always Said "No." | Honor |
| 1990 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Jeanette Winter | The World's Birthday: A Rosh Hashana Story | Honor |
| 1990 | Phyllis Grode | Shelly O. Haas | Sophie's Name | Notable |
| 1990 | Amy Hest | Amy Schwartz | Fancy Aunt Jess | Notable |
| 1990 | Amy Hest | Deborah Haeffele | The Ring and the Window Seat | Notable |
| 1990 | Fran Manushkin | Robin Spowart | Latkes and Applesauce | Notable |
| 1990 | Ann Morris | Lilly Rivlin | When Will the Fighting Stop?: A Child's View of Jerusalem | Notable |
| 1990 | Lillian Hammer Ross | Deborah Healy | The Little Old Man and His Dreams | Notable |
| 1990 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Happy Passover, Rosie and Leo and Blossom's Sukkah | Notable |
| 1991 | Sandy Lanton | Shelly O. Haas | Daddy's Chair | Winner |
| 1991 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Erika Weihs | Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | Winner |
| 1991 | Sholem Aleichem, selected and translated by Aliza Shevrin | Toby Gowing | Around the Table: Family Stories of Sholom Aleichem | Notable |
| 1991 | Michelle Edwards | Michelle Edwards | A Baker's Portrait | Notable |
| 1991 | Miriam Feinberg | Marlene L. Ruthen | Just Enough Room | Notable |
| 1991 | Arthur A. Levine | James E. Ransome | All the Lights of the Night | Notable |
| 1991 | Shulamith Levey Oppenheim | Joanna Yardley | Appleblossom | Notable |
| 1991 | Gloria Teles Pushker | Judith Hierstein | Toby Belfer Never Had a Christmas Tree | Notable |
| 1991 | Lillian Hammer Ross | Mary Morgan | Buba Leah and Her Paper Children | Notable |
| 1991 | Margaret Wild | Julie Vivas | Let the Celebrations Begin! | Notable |
| 1992 | Phoebe Gilman | Phoebe Gilman | Something from Nothing | Winner |
| 1992 | Ellie Gellman | Judith Friedman | Jeremy's Dreidel | Honor |
| 1992 | Esther Hautzig | Donna Diamond | Riches | Honor |
| 1992 | Eric A. Kimmel | Leonard Everett Fisher | The Spotted Pony: A Collection of Hanukkah Stories | Honor |
| 1992 | Richard Rosenblum | Richard Rosenblum | Journey to the Golden Land | Honor |
| 1992 | Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush | Stephen Fieser | The Sabbath Lion: A Jewish Folktale from Algeria | Honor |
| 1992 | Colin T. Eisler | Jerry Pinkney | David's Songs: His Psalms and Their Story | Notable |
| 1992 | Mira Jaffe | Louise August | In the Month of Kislev: A Story of Hanukkah | Notable |
| 1992 | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Mrs. Katz and Tush | Notable |
| 1992 | Michael J. Rosen | Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson | Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas | Notable |
| 1992 | Sheila Segal | Joel Iskowitz | Joshua's Dream | Notable |
| 1993 | Nina Jaffe | Elivia Savadier | The Uninvited Guest | Winner |
| 1993 | Laurie Dolphin | Ben Dolphin | Neve Shalom Wahat Al-Salam: Oasis of Peace | Honor |
| 1993 | David Techner and Judith Techner | Joel Iskowitz | A Candle for Grandpa | Honor |
| 1993 | Miriam Aroner | Shelly O. Haas | The Kingdom of the Singing Birds | Notable |
| 1993 | Aliana Brodmann | Anthony Carnabuci | The Gift | Notable |
| 1993 | Michelle Edwards | Michelle Edwards | Blessed Are You | Notable |
| 1993 | Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | David and Goliath | Notable |
| 1993 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Robert Andrew Parker | The Magician's Visit | Notable |
| 1993 | Carol Snyder | Beth Glick | God Must Like Cookies, Too | Notable |
| 1993 | Tobi Tobias | Nola Langer Malone | Pot Luck | Notable |
| 1993 | Sarah Waldman | Neil Waldman | Light: The First Seven Days | Notable |
| 1993 | Wendy Wax (compiler) | John Speirs | Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah | Notable |
| 1993 | Nicki Weiss | Nicki Weiss | Stone Men | Notable |
| 1994 | Sheldon Oberman | Ted Lewin | The Always Prayer Shawl | Winner |
| 1994 | Maxine Schur | Brian Pinkney | Day of Delight: A Jewish Sabbath in Ethiopia | Honor |
| 1994 | Diana Conway | Shelly O. Haas | Northern Lights: A Hanukkah Story | Notable |
| 1994 | Arthur Geisert | Arthur Geisert | After the Flood | Notable |
| 1994 | Patricia Lakin | Ted Rand | Don't Forget | Notable |
| 1994 | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Tikvah Means Hope | Notable |
| 1994 | Mindy Avra Portnoy | Katherine Janus Kahn | Matzah Ball | Notable |
| 1994 | Dalia Hardof Renberg, (adapter) | Ruth Heller | King Solomon and the Bee | Notable |
| 1995 | Jo Hoestlandt | Johanna Kang | Star of Fear, Star of Hope | Winner |
| 1995 | Janice Cohn | Bill Farnsworth | The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate | Honor |
| 1995 | David A. Adler | Lloyd Bloom | One Yellow Daffodil | Notable |
| 1995 | Feinberg Miriam | Karen Ostrove | A Yom Kippur Think | Notable |
| 1995 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Louise August | Night Lights: A Sukkot Story | Notable |
| 1995 | Nechama Liss-Levinson | Nechama Liss-Levinson | When a Grandparent Dies | Notable |
| 1995 | Sheila MacGill-Callahan | Stephen T. Johnson | When Solomon Was King | Notable |
| 1995 | Fran Manushkin | Ned Bittinger | The Matzah That Papa Brought Home | Notable |
| 1995 | Fran Manushkin | Jacqueline Chwast | Starlight and Candles | Notable |
| 1995 | Steve Sanfield | Emily Lisker | Strudel, Strudel, Strudel | Notable |
| 1995 | Steven Schnur | Stephen T. Johnson | The Tie Man's Miracle: A Chanukkah Tale | Notable |
| 1995 | Roni Schotter | Marilyn Hafner | Passover Magic | Notable |
| 1995 | Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Golden City: Jerusalem's 3000 Years | Notable |
| 1996 | Barbara Sofer | | Shalom, Haver: Goodbye, Friend | Winner |
| 1996 | Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven | Honor |
| 1996 | Howard Bogot | Norman Gorbaty | Becky and Benny Thank God | Notable |
| 1996 | Sterna Citron | Igor Eydel | Hirsh's Secret: A Baal Shem Tov Story | Notable |
| 1996 | Gary Clement | Gary Clement | Just Stay Put | Notable |
| 1996 | Aubrey Davis | Dušan Petričić | Bone Button Borscht | Notable |
| 1996 | Katherine Paterson | Alexander Koshkin | The Angel and the Donkey | Notable |
| 1996 | Sheryl Prenzlau | Zely Smelkhov | The Jewish Children's Bible: Genesis | Notable |
| 1997 | Elsa Okon Rael | Marjorie Priceman | When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street | Winner |
| 1997 | Amy Hest | P.J. Lynch | When Jessie Came Across the Sea | Honor |
| 1997 | Cathy Goldberg Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Passover | Notable |
| 1997 | Cathy Goldberg Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | Notable |
| 1997 | Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Jonah and the Two Great Fish | Notable |
| 1997 | Linda Glaser | Nancy Cote | The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes | Notable |
| 1997 | Amy Hest | P.J. Lynch | When | Notable |
| 1997 | Sue Kassirer | Danuta Jarecka | Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors | Notable |
| 1997 | Sarah Marwil Lamstein | Cecily Lang | Annie's Shabbat | Notable |
| 1997 | Kathryn Lasky | Kevin Hawkes | Marven of the Great North Woods | Notable |
| 1997 | J. Patrick Lewis | Reg Cartwright | The Boat of Many Rooms | Notable |
| 1997 | Claire Nivola | Claire Nivola | Elisabeth | Notable |
| 1997 | Sheldon Oberman | Neil Waldman | By the Hanukkah Light | Notable |
| 1997 | Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | The Angel's Mistake: Stories of Chelm | Notable |
| 1997 | Roni Schotter | Marilyn Hafner | Purim Play | Notable |
| 1997 | Dorrith M. Sim | Gerald Fitzgerald | In My Pocket | Notable |
| 1997 | Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Never-Ending Greenness | Notable |
| 1997 | Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Two Brothers: A Legend of Jerusalem | Notable |
| 1997 | Brian Wildsmith | Brian Wildsmith | Joseph | Notable |
| 1997 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa | Notable |
| 1998 | Marci Stillerman | Pesach Gerber | Nine Spoons | Winner |
| 1998 | Rita Golden Gelman | Frane Lessac | Queen Esther Saves Her People | Honor |
| 1998 | Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-Vavniks | Honor |
| 1998 | Jeffrey Schrier | Jeffrey Schrier | On the Wings of Eagles: An Ethiopian Boy's Story | Honor |
| 1998 | Bruce Siegel | Shelly O. Haas | The Magic of Kol Nidre | Honor |
| 1998 | S. Y. Agnon, translated by Robert Friend | Arieh Zeldich | Agnon's Alef Bet: Poems by S. Y. Agnon | Notable |
| 1998 | Carol Bierman, with Barbara Hehner | Laurie McGaw | Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America | Notable |
| 1998 | Nina Jaffe | Louise August | The Way Meat Loves Salt | Notable |
| 1998 | Heinz Janisch, translated by Rosemary Lanning | Lisbeth Zwerger | Noah's Ark | Notable |
| 1998 | Jacqueline Jules | Katherine Janus Kahn | Once Upon a Shabbos | Notable |
| 1998 | William Kaplan, with Shelley Tanaka | Stephen Taylor | One More Border | Notable |
| 1998 | Eric A. Kimmel | Barbara McClintock | When Mindy Saved Hanukkah | Notable |
| 1998 | Fran Manushkin | Bob Dacey | Miriam's Cup | Notable |
| 1998 | Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | The Menorah Story | Notable |
| 1998 | Joan Betty Stuchner | Richard Row | The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band | Notable |
| 1998 | Nancy Sohn Swartz | Melanie W. Hall | In Our Image: God's First Creatures | Notable |
| 1998 | Edith Tarbescu | Lydia Dabcovich | Annushka's Voyage | Notable |
| 1999 | Maxine Rose Schur | Kimberley Bulcken Root | The Peddler's Gift | Winner |
| 1999 | Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Noah and the Great Flood | Honor |
| 1999 | Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Honor |
| 1999 | Susan Wilkowski | Judith Friedman | Baby's Bris | Honor |
| 1999 | Joel Anderson | Abe Goolsby | David and the Trash-Talkin' Giant: Mr. Grungy's Seek and Find Bible Stories | Notable |
| 1999 | Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Queen Esther, the Morning Star | Notable |
| 1999 | Charlotte Herman | Katya Krenina | How Yussel Caught the Gefilte Fish: A Shabbos Story | Notable |
| 1999 | Ziporah Hildebrandt | Robin Roraback | This Is Our Seder | Notable |
| 1999 | Shirley Hughes | Shirley Hughes | The Lion and the Unicorn | Notable |
| 1999 | Miriam Nerlove | Miriam Nerlove | The Ten Commandments for Jewish Children | Notable |
| 1999 | Joanne Rocklin | Catherine O'Neil | The Very Best Hanukkah Gift | Notable |
| 1999 | Joan Rothenberg | Joan Rothenberg | Matzah Ball Soup | Notable |
| 1999 | Sandy Sasso | Karyn Kunz Finney | For Heaven's Sake | Notable |
| 1999 | Erica Silverman | Susan Gaber | Raisel's Riddle | Notable |
| 1999 | Rosemary Wells | Dann Adreasen | Streets of Gold | Notable |
| 1999 | Elie Wiesel | Mark Podwal | King Solomon and His Magic Ring | Notable |
| 1999 | Elvira Woodruff | Michael Dooling | The Memory Coat | Notable |
| 2000 | Eric A. Kimmel | Jon J. Muth | Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year | Winner |
| 2000 | Cary Fagan | Regolo Ricci | The Market Wedding | Honor |
| 2000 | Sheldon Oberman | Neil Waldman | The Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomon and Sheba | Honor |
| 2000 | Linda Jacobs Altman | Cornelius Van Wright and Ting-Hwa Hu | The Legend of Freedom Hill | Notable |
| 2000 | Cathy Goldman Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Purim | Notable |
| 2000 | Leslie Kimmelman | Ora Eitan | Dance, Sing, Remember | Notable |
| 2000 | Fran Manushkin | Rosalind Charney Kaye | Come, Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava Nagila | Notable |
| 2000 | Laura Kraus Melmed | David Slonim | Moishe's Miracle | Notable |
| 2000 | Leah Shollar | Shoshana Mekibel | Thread of Kindness: A Tzedaka Story | Notable |
| 2001 | Elsa Okon Rael | Maryann Kovalski | Rivka's First Thanksgiving | Winner |
| 2001 | Sue Alexander | Leonid Gore | Behold the Trees | Notable |
| 2001 | Matt Biers-Ariel | Esti Silverberg-Kiss | Solomon and the Trees | Notable |
| 2001 | Mira Pollak Brichto | Selina Alko | The God around Us, Volume 2: The Valley of Blessings | Notable |
| 2001 | Chaya Burstein | Judy Hanks-Henn | Hanukkah Cat (Revised Edition) | Notable |
| 2001 | Deborah da Costa | Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu | Snow in Jerusalem | Notable |
| 2001 | Renate Dollinger | Renate Dollinger | The Rabbi Who Flew | Notable |
| 2001 | Cathy Goldman Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Shabbat | Notable |
| 2001 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Anik McGrory | A Mountain of Blintzes | Notable |
| 2001 | Amy Hest | Claire Nivola | The Friday Nights of Nana | Notable |
| 2001 | Jacqueline Jules | Katherine Janus Kahn | The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story | Notable |
| 2001 | Eric A. Kimmel | Jon Goodell | Zigazak! A Magical Hanukkah Night | Notable |
| 2001 | Sandy Sasso | Joani Keller Rothenberg | Cain and Abel: Finding the Fruits of Peace | Notable |
| 2001 | Lesley Simpson | Nicole in den Bosch | The Shabbat Box | Notable |
| 2001 | Myron Uhlberg | Sonja Lamut | Lemuel, the Fool | Notable |
| 2001 | Richard Ungar | | Rachel Captures the Moon | Notable |
| 2002 | Esther Hershenhorn | Roseanne Litzinger | Chicken Soup by Heart | Winner |
| 2002 | Jerry Pinkney | Jerry Pinkney | Noah's Ark | Honor |
| 2002 | Sylvia Rouss | Katherine Janus Kahn | Sammy Spider's First Trip to Israel: A Book about the Five Senses | Honor |
| 2002 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Pearl's Passover: A Family Celebration through Stories, Recipes, Crafts, And Songs | Honor |
| 2002 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Laura Sucher | Night Lights: A Sukkot Story | Notable |
| 2002 | Rhonda Gowler Greene | Anne Wilson | The Beautiful World That God Made | Notable |
| 2002 | Naomi Howland | Naomi Howland | Matzah Man | Notable |
| 2002 | Latifa Berry Kropf | Tod Rosen | It's Challah Time! | Notable |
| 2002 | Karla Kuskin | Michael Grejniec | The Animals and the Ark | Notable |
| 2002 | Lesléa Newman | Krysten Brooker | Runaway Dreidel | Notable |
| 2002 | Tony Kushner | Maurice Sendak | Brundibar | Notable |
| 2002 | Rochel Groner Vorst | Elizabeth Victor-Elsby | The Sukkah That I Built | Notable |
| 2002 | Anne Wilson | Anne Wilson | Noah's Ark | Notable |
| 2003 | Aubrey Davis | Dušan Petričić | Bagels from Benny | Winner |
| 2003 | Jenny Koralek | Pauline Baynes | The Moses Basket | Honor |
| 2003 | Burt E. Schuman | Rosalind Charney Kaye | Chanukah on the Prairie | Honor |
| 2003 | Erica Silverman | Matthew Trueman | When the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh Hashanah Tale | Honor |
| 2003 | Julie Baer | Julie Baer | I Only Like What I Like | Honor |
| 2003 | Esther Silverstein Blanc and Godeane Eagle | Tennessee Dixon | Long Johns for a Small Chicken | Honor |
| 2003 | Margie Blumberg | Laurie McGaw | Avram's Gift | Honor |
| 2003 | Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | A Sweet Year: A Taste of the Jewish Holidays | Honor |
| 2003 | Dina Rosenfeld | Tova Leff | Five Alive! My Yom Tov Five Senses | Honor |
| 2003 | Sylvia Rouss | Nancy Oppenheimer | Tali's Jerusalem Scrapbook | Honor |
| 2003 | Pete Seeger | Wendy Anderson Halperin | Turn, Turn, Turn | Honor |
| 2003 | Emily Sper | Emily Sper | The Passover Seder | Honor |
| 2003 | Stephanie Spinner | Jill McElmurry | It's a Miracle! A Hanukkah Storybook | Honor |
| 2003 | Ann Redisch Stampler | Jacqueline M. Cohen | Something for Nothing | Honor |
| 2003 | Richard Ungar | Richard Ungar | Rachel's Gift | Honor |
| 2004 | Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Daniel in the Lions’ Den | Honor |
| 2004 | Leone Adelson | Naomi Howland | The Mystery Bear: A Purim Story | Notable |
| 2004 | Michelle Edwards | Stacey Schuett | Papa's Latkes | Notable |
| 2004 | Linda Glaser | Nancy Cote | Mrs. Greenberg's Messy Hanukkah | Notable |
| 2004 | Lawrence A. Hoffman and Ron Wolfson | Bill Aron | What You Will See Inside a Synagogue | Notable |
| 2004 | Jenny Koralek | Pauline Baynes | The Coat of Many Colors | Notable |
| 2004 | Latifa Berry Kropf | Tod Cohen | It's Sukkah Time! | Notable |
| 2004 | Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | David and Goliath | Notable |
| 2004 | Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Jonah and the Whale (and the Worm) | Notable |
| 2004 | Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Miriam and Her Brother Moses | Notable |
| 2004 | Rahel Musleah | Judy Jarrett | Apples and Pomegranates: A Family Seder for Rosh Hashanah | Notable |
| 2004 | Mindy Avra Portnoy | Shelly O. Haas | Where Do People Go When They Die? | Notable |
| 2005 | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. |
| 2006 | Erica Silverman | Mordicai Gerstein | Sholom Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer | Winner |
| 2006 | Louise Borden | Allan Drummond | The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey | Honor |
| 2006 | Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Ruth and Naomi: A Bible Story | Honor |
| 2006 | Anna Olswanger | Paula Goodman Koz | Shlemiel Crooks | Honor |
| 2006 | Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda Told Me | Honor |
| 2006 | Julie Baer | Julie Baer | Love Me Later | Notable |
| 2006 | Esme Raji Codell | LeUyen Pham | Hanukkah, Shmanukkah! | Notable |
| 2006 | Deborah Bodin Cohen | Melanie W. Hall | Seventh Day: A Shabbat Story | Notable |
| 2006 | Laurie Jacobs | Shelly Ephraim | A Box of Candles | Notable |
| 2006 | Latifa Berry Kropf | Tod Cohen | It's Purim Time! | Notable |
| 2006 | Lawrence Kushner and Gary D. Schmidt | Matthew J. Baek | In God's Hands | Notable |
| 2006 | Michelle Markel | Emily Lisker | Dreamer from the Village: The Story of Marc Chagall | Notable |
| 2006 | Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Crosses, and Crescents | Notable |
| 2006 | Matthew Reinhart | Matthew Reinhart | The Ark | Notable |
| 2006 | Howard Schwartz | Kristina Swarner | Before You Were Born | Notable |
| 2006 | Lisa Shulman | Rosanne Litzinger | The Matzoh Ball Boy | Notable |
| 2006 | Edie Stoltz Zolkower | Edie Stoltz Zolkower | It's Tu B'Shevat | Notable |
| 2007 | Stephen Krensky | Greg Harlin | Hanukkah at Valley Forge | Winner |
| 2007 | Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac | Honor |
| 2007 | Bimba Landmann | Bimba Landmann | I Am Marc Chagall | Honor |
| 2007 | Ann Redisch Stampler | Jacqueline M. Cohen | Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost | Honor |
| 2007 | Brynn Olenberg Sugarman | Michelle Shapiro | Rebecca's Journey Home | Honor |
| 2007 | Maxie Baum | Julie Paschkis | I Have a Little Dreidel | Notable |
| 2007 | Anna Harwell Celenza | JoAnn E. Kitchel | Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue | Notable |
| 2007 | Brian P. Cleary | David Udovic | Eight Wild Nights: A Family Hanukkah Tale | Notable |
| 2007 | Cathy Goldberg Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Sukkot and Simchat Torah | Notable |
| 2007 | Julie K. Gordon, editor | | With All Your Heart: A Shabbat and Festival Companion | Notable |
| 2007 | Deborah Heiligman | | Celebrate Hanukkah with Light, Lakes and Dreidels | Notable |
| 2007 | Chaim Kosofsky | Jessica Schiffman | Much, Much Better | Notable |
| 2007 | Latifa Berry Kropf | Tod Cohen | It's Shofar Time! | Notable |
| 2007 | Amy Littlesugar | William Low | Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story | Notable |
| 2007 | Yona Zeldis McDonough | Malcah Zeldis | Hammerin' Hank: The Life of Hank Greenberg | Notable |
| 2007 | Richard Michelson | E. B. Lewis | Across the Alley | Notable |
| 2007 | Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum | Barb Bjornson | A Grandma Like Yours/A Grandpa Like Yours | Notable |
| 2007 | Jessica Souhami | Jessica Souhami | The Little, Little House | Notable |
| 2008 | Sarah Gershman | Kristina Swarner | The Bedtime Sh’ma | Winner |
| 2008 | Linda Heller | Boris Kulikov | The Castle on Hester Street | Honor |
| 2008 | Sarah Marwil Lamstein | Neil Waldman | Letter on the Wind: A Chanukah Tale | Honor |
| 2008 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Light | Honor |
| 2008 | Michelle Shapiro Abraham | Ann D. Koffsky | My Cousin Tamar Lives in Israel | Notable |
| 2008 | Sharon Reiss Baker | Beth Peck | A Nickel, a Trolley, a Treasure House | Notable |
| 2008 | Joan Benjamin-Farren | | Shuli and Me: From Slavery to Freedom | Notable |
| 2008 | Deborah Bodin Cohen | Jane Dippold | Papa Jethro | Notable |
| 2008 | Deborah da Costa | Gosia Mosz | Hanukkah Moon | Notable |
| 2008 | Deborah Heiligman | | Celebrate Passover with Matzah, Maror and Memories | Notable |
| 2008 | Deborah Heiligman | | Celebrate Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur with Honey, Prayers, and the Shofar | Notable |
| 2008 | Dave Horowitz | Dave Horowitz | Five Little Gefiltes | Notable |
| 2008 | Heidi Smith Hyde | Johanna Van Der Sterre | Mendel's Accordion | Notable |
| 2008 | Jacqueline Jules | Natascia Ugliano | Abraham's Search for God | Notable |
| 2008 | Amy Meltzer | Janice Fried | A Mezuzah on the Door | Notable |
| 2008 | Susan Remick Topek | Tod Cohen | Ten Good Rules: A Counting Book | Notable |
| 2009 | Richard Michelson | Raúl Colón | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom | Winner |
| 2009 | Deborah Bodin Cohen | Shahar Kober | Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride | Honor |
| 2009 | Jacqueline Jules | Natascia Ugliano | Sarah Laughs | Honor |
| 2009 | Richard Michelson | Ron Mazellan | A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet | Honor |
| 2009 | Jane Yolen | Jim Burke | Naming Liberty | Honor |
| 2009 | Eric A. Kimmel | Katya Krenina | Mysterious Guests: A Sukkot Story | Notable |
| 2009 | Anna Levine | Knesia Topaz | Jodie's Hanukkah Dig | Notable |
| 2009 | Allison Ofanansky | Eliyahu Alpern | Harvest of Light | Notable |
| 2009 | Sylvia Rouss | Katherine Janus Kahn | Sammy Spider's First Shavuot | Notable |
| 2009 | Elisheva Schreiber, translated by Sherie Gross | Batsheva Ravad | My Tzitzis Book | Notable |
| 2009 | Harriet Ziefert | Karla Gudeon | Hanukkah Haiku | Notable |
| 2010 | April Halprin Wayland | Stéphane Jorisch | New Year at the Pier | Winner |
| 2010 | Deborah Bodin Cohen | Jago | Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story | Honor |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Jules | Natascia Ugliano | Benjamin and the Silver Goblet | Honor |
| 2010 | Elka Weber | Adam Gustavson | Yankee at the Seder | Honor |
| 2010 | Jonah Winter | André Carrilho | You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax? | Honor |
| 2010 | Michelle Shapiro Abraham | Janice Fried | Where Is Grandpa Dennis? | Notable |
| 2010 | Seryl Berman | Ari Binus | Around the Shabbos Table | Notable |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Dembar Greene | Douglas Chyka | The Secret Shofar of Barcelona | Notable |
| 2010 | Esther Susan Heller | David Ginsberg | Menorah Under the Sea | Notable |
| 2010 | Linda Heller | Allison Jay | Today Is the Birthday of the World | Notable |
| 2010 | Leah Braunstein Levy | Avi Katz | The Waiting Wall | Notable |
| 2010 | Allison Ofanasky | Eliyahu Alpern | Sukkot Treasure Hunt | Notable |
| 2010 | Barbara Reid | Barbara Reid | Fox Walked Alone | Notable |
| 2011 | Howard Schwartz | Kristina Swarner | Gathering Sparks | Winner |
| 2011 | Sarah Gershman | Kristina Swarner | Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book | Honor |
| 2011 | Linda Glaser | Claire Nivola | Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | Honor |
| 2011 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Jaime Zollars | Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | Honor |
| 2011 | Deborah Bodin Cohen | Shahar Kober | Engineer Air and the Sukkah Express | Notable |
| 2011 | Heidi Smith Hyde | Johanna van der Sterre | Feivel's Flying Horses | Notable |
| 2011 | Jacqueline Jules | Natascia Ugliano | Miriam in the Desert | Notable |
| 2011 | Leslie Kimmelman | Paul Meisel | The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah | Notable |
| 2011 | Deborah Lakritz | Martha Aviles | Say Hello, Lily | Notable |
| 2011 | Daniel Pinkwater | Jill Pinkwater | Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken | Notable |
| 2011 | Mindy Avra Portnoy | Valeria Cis | A Tale of Two Seders | Notable |
| 2011 | Sharon Robinson | E. B. Lewis | Jackie's Gift | Notable |
| 2011 | Robert Rubenstein | Woody Miller | Zishe the Strong Man | Notable |
| 2011 | Rebeka Simhaee | Michael Weber | Sara Finds a Mitzva | Notable |
| 2011 | Laurel Snyder | David Goldin | Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher | Notable |
| 2011 | Ann Redisch Stampler | Eugene Yelchin | The Rooster Prince of Breslov | Notable |
| 2011 | Doba Rivka Weber | Phyllis Saroff | Dear Tree | Notable |
| 2012 | Michael J. Rosen | Robert Sabuda | Chanukah Lights | Winner |
| 2012 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Holly Meade | Naamah and the Ark at Night | Honor |
| 2012 | Durga Yael Bernhard | Durga Yael Bernhard | Around the World in One Shabbat | Honor |
| 2012 | Jacqueline Jules | Debbi Melmon | Picnic at Camp Shalom | Notable |
| 2012 | Eric A. Kimmel | Aaron Jansinski | The Golem's Latkes | Notable |
| 2012 | Eric A. Kimmel | Martina Peluso | Joseph and the Sabbath Fish | Notable |
| 2012 | Jamie Korngold | Julie Fortenberry | Sadie's Sukkah Breakfast | Notable |
| 2012 | Amy Meltzer | Martha Aviles | The Shabbat Princess | Notable |
| 2012 | Richard Michelson | Zachary Pullen | Lipman Pike: America's First Home Run King | Notable |
| 2012 | Barb Rosenstock | Melanie Hall | The Littlest Mountain | Notable |
| 2012 | Marisabina Russo | Marisabina Russo | I Will Come Back to You: A Family in Hiding during World War II | Notable |
| 2012 | Gloria Spielman | Manon Gauthier | Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime | Notable |
| 2012 | Elka Weber | Elisa Kleven | One Little Chicken | Notable |
| 2013 | Linda Glaser | Adam Gustavson | Hannah's Way | Winner |
| 2013 | Sheri Sinykin | Kristina Swarner | Zayde Comes to Live | Honor |
| 2013 | Linda Leopold Strauss | Alexi Natchev | The Elijah Door: A Passover Tale | Honor |
| 2014 | Laurel Snyder | Catia Chen | The Longest Night | Winner |
| 2014 | Betty Rosenberg Perlov | Cosei Kawa | Rifka Takes a Bow | Honor |
| 2014 | Renee Londner | Martha Avilés | Stones for Grandpa | Honor |
| 2015 | Jim Aylesworth | Barbara McClintock | My Grandfather's Coat | Winner |
| 2015 | Barbara Krasner | Kelsey Garrity-Rile | Goldie Takes a Stand | Honor |
| 2015 | Jacqueline Jules | Durga Yael Bernhard | Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain | Honor |
| 2016 | Lesléa Newman | Amy June Bates | Ketzel, the Cat who Composed | Winner |
| 2016 | Heidi Smith Hyde | Jing Jing Tsong | Shanghai Sukkah | Honor |
| 2016 | Leslie Kimmelman | Talitha Shipman | Everybody Says Shalom | Honor |
| 2016 | David A. Adler | Jeffrey Ebbeler | Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles | Notable |
| 2016 | Jamie Korngold | Julie Fortenberry | Sadie and Ori and the Blue Blanket | Notable |
| 2016 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Suzanne Raphael Berkson | The Parakeet Named Dreidel | Notable |
| 2017 | Debbie Levy | Elizabeth Baddeley | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Winner |
| 2017 | Michelle Edwards | G. Brian Karas | A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and Love | Honor |
| 2017 | Richard Michelson | Edel Rodriguez | Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy | Honor |
| 2017 | Barbara Bietz | John Kanzler | The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern Shabbat | Notable |
| 2017 | Linda Glaser | Nuria Balaguer | On One Foot | Notable |
| 2017 | Jeff Gottesfeld | Peter McCarty | The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window | Notable |
| 2017 | Eric A. Kimmel | Maria Surducan | Gabriel's Horn | Notable |
| 2017 | Pamela Mayer | Deborah Melmon | Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup | Notable |
| 2017 | Jessica Steinberg | Amanda Pike | Not This Turkey! | Notable |
| 2018 | Richard Michelson | Karla Gudeon | The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew | Winner |
| 2018 | Fawzia Gilani-Williams | Chiara Fedele | Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam | Honor |
| 2018 | Jacqueline Jules | Yevgenia Nayberg | Drop by Drop: A Story of Rabbi Akiva | Honor |
| 2018 | David A. Adler | Andre Ceolin | Yom Kippur Shortstop | Notable |
| 2018 | Michael Herman | Alida Massari | Under the Sabbath Lamp | Notable |
| 2018 | Eric A. Kimmel | Jim Starr | Big Sam: A Rosh Hashanah Tall Tale | Notable |
| 2018 | Joanne Oppenheim | Jon Davis | The Knish War on Rivington Street | Notable |
| 2018 | Jonah Winter | Stacy Innerst | Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality | Notable |
| 2019 | Emily Jenkins | Paul O. Zelinsky | All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah | Winner |
| 2019 | Barb Rosenstock | Mary GrandPré | Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall's Life | Honor |
| 2019 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Mehrdokht Amini | A Moon for Moe and Mo | Honor |
| 2019 | Nancy Churnin | James Rey Sanchez | Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing | Notable |
| 2019 | Leslie Kimmelman | David C. Gardner | Write On, Irving Berlin! | Notable |
| 2019 | Gloria Spielman | Inbal Gigi Bousidan | French Toast Sundays | Notable |
| 2019 | Evelyn Zusman | Kyrsten Brooker | The Passover Parrot | Notable |
| 2020 | Sue Macy | Stacy Innerst | The Book Rescuer | Winner |
| 2020 | Lesléa Newman | Amy June Bates | Gittel's Journey | Honor |
| 2020 | Debbie Levy | Sonja Wimmer | The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music | Honor |
| 2020 | Deborah Blumenthal | Masha D’yans | Parrots, Pugs and Pixie Dust: A Book about Fashion Designer Judith Leiber | Notable |
| 2020 | Ann Malaspina | Merrilee Liddiard | A Scarf for Keiko | Notable |
| 2020 | Mara Rockliff | Zosia Dzierzawska | Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope | Notable |
| 2021 | Lesléa Newman | Susan Gal | Welcoming Elijah: a Passover Tale with a Tail | Winner |
| 2021 | Mychal Copeland | André Ceolin | I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book | Honor |
| 2021 | Jane Yolen | Khoa Le | Miriam at the River | Honor |
| 2021 | Leslie Kimmelman | Galia Bernstein | The Eight Knights of Hanukkah | Notable |
| 2021 | Linda Elovitz Marshall | Lisa Anchin | The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine | Notable |
| 2021 | Erica S. Perl | Shahar Kober | The Ninth Night of Hanukkah | Notable |
| 2022 | Susan Kusel | Sean Rubin | The Passover Guest | Winner |
| 2022 | Peter Sís | Peter Sís | Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued | Honor |
| 2022 | Nancy Churnin | Bethany Stancliffe | Dear Mr. Dickens | Honor |
| 2022 | Jeff Gottesfeld | Michelle Laurentia Agatha | The Christmas Mitzvah | Honor |
| 2022 | Nancy Churnin | Yevgenia Nayberg | A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah | Notable |
| 2022 | Cynthia Levinson | Evan Turk | The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art | Notable |
| 2022 | Lee Wind | Paul O. Zelinsky | Red and Green and Blue and White | Notable |
| 2023 | Chana Stiefel | Susan Gal | The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs | Winner |
| 2023 | Paula Cohen | Paula Cohen | Big Dreams, Small Fish | Honor |
| 2023 | Shoshana Nambi | Moran Yogev | The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda | Honor |
| 2023 | Erin Silver | Michelle Theodore | Sitting Shiva | Honor |
| 2023 | Ruth Behar | Devon Holzwarth | Tia Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey | Notable |
| 2023 | Susan Goldman Rubin | Sarah Dvojack | Madame Alexander: The Creator of the Iconic American Doll | Notable |
| 2023 | Sarah Sassoon | Noa Kelner | Shoham's Bangle | Notable |
| 2023 | Joel Edward Stein | Sara Ugolotti | Raquela's Seder | Notable |
| 2024 | Richard Ho | Lynn Scurfield | Two New Years | Winner |
| 2024 | Tziporah Cohen | Yaara Eshet | Afikomen | Honor |
| 2024 | Elissa Brent Weissman | Omer Hoffmann | Hanukkah Upside Down | Honor |
| 2024 | Elisa Boxer | Amy June Bates | Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust | Honor |
| 2024 | Susan Tarcov | Diana Renjina | The Rabbi and His Donkey | Notable |
| 2024 | Erica Lyons | Renia Metallinou | Zhen Yu and the Snake | Notable |
| 2024 | Laurel Snyder | | The Witch of Woodland | Notable |
| 2025 | Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky | Stacey Dressen McQueen | An Etrog from Across the Sea | Winner |
| 2025 | Norman H. Finkelstein | Vesper Stamper | Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan's Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants | Honor |
| 2025 | Lesléa Newman | Susan Gal | Joyful Song: A Naming Story | Honor |
| 2025 | Sidura Ludwig | Sophia Vincent Guy | Rising | Honor |
| 2025 | Elisa Boxer | Alianna Rosentsveig | The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World | Honor |
| 2025 | Linda Leopold Strauss | Tim Smart | Everybody's Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah | Notable |
| 2025 | Marc Kornblatt | Nanette Regan | Mr. Katz and Me | Notable |
| 2025 | Danielle Sharkan | Selina Alko | Sharing Shalom | Notable |

### Older Reader (1981–2019)

In 2020, the "Older Reader" category was redefined as "Middle Grade".
Award recipients :
| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Result |
| 1981 | Kathryn Lasky | | The Night Journey | Winner |
| 1982 | Marilyn Sachs | | Call Me Ruth | Winner |
| 1983 | Rose Zar | | In the Mouth of the Wolf | Winner |
| 1984 | Uri Orlev | | The Island on Bird Street | Winner |
| 1985 | Carol Snyder | | Ike and Mama and the Seven Surprises | Winner |
| 1985 | Miriam Chaikin | Marvin Friedman | Ask Another Question: The Story and Meaning of Passover | Notable |
| 1985 | Miriam Chaikin | Petra Mathers | Yossi Asks the Angels for Help | Notable |
| 1985 | Eth Clifford | Donna Diamond | The Remembering Box | Notable |
| 1985 | Barbara Cohen | Michael J. Deraney | Secret Grove | Notable |
| 1985 | Howard Cushnir | Katherine Kahn | The Secret Spinner: Tales of Rav Gedalia | Notable |
| 1985 | Norman H. Finkelstein | Lois Hokanson and Lars Hokanson | Remember Not to Forget | Notable |
| 1985 | Erwin Herman & Agnes Herman | Katherine Kahn | The Yanov Torah | Notable |
| 1985 | Lenore C. Kipper and Howard I. Gogot | Jana Paiss | The Alef-Bet of Jewish Values: Code Words of Jewish Life | Notable |
| 1985 | Michael Mark | | Toba at the Hands of a Thief | Notable |
| 1985 | Maxine Rose Schur | Dale Redpath | Shnook the Peddler | Notable |
| 1985 | Arthur Waskow, David Waskow, and Shoshana Waskow | Amnon Danziger | Before There Was a Before | Notable |
| 1986 | Nancy Pitt | | Beyond the High White Wall | Winner |
| 1986 | Jacqueline Bacon | Robert L. Wolfe and Diane Wolfe | Cooking the Israeli Way | Notable |
| 1986 | Miriam Chaikin | Yossi Abulafia | Aviva's Piano | Notable |
| 1986 | Miriam Chaikin | Erika Weihs | Sound the Shofar: The Story and Meaning of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | Notable |
| 1986 | Paul Cowan | Rachel Cowan | A Torah is Written | Notable |
| 1986 | Myra Cohn Livingston (editor) | Lloyd Bloom | Poems for Jewish Holidays | Notable |
| 1986 | Steven Schnur | Victor Lazzaro | The Narrowest Bar Mitzvah | Notable |
| 1986 | Maxine Schnur | Donna Ruff | Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light | Notable |
| 1986 | Barbara Spector | | The Great Jewish Quiz Book | Notable |
| 1987 | Sonia Levitin | | The Return | Winner |
| 1987 | Miriam Chaikin | Vera Rosenberry | Esther | Notable |
| 1987 | Miriam Chaikin | Charles Mikolaycak | Exodus | Notable |
| 1987 | Miriam Chaikin | Denise Saldutti | Yossi Tries to Help God | Notable |
| 1987 | Paul J. Citrin | Lindsey Aitken | Joseph's Wardrobe | Notable |
| 1987 | Barbara Cohen | Diane de Groat | The Christmas Revolution | Notable |
| 1987 | Barbara Cohen | Martin Lemelman | First Fast | Notable |
| 1987 | Karla Kuskin | David Frampton | Jerusalem, Shining Still | Notable |
| 1987 | Steven Schnur | Victor Lazzaro | The Return of Morris Schumsky | Notable |
| 1987 | Madeline Wikler and Judyth Groner | Chari Rudin | Miracle Meals: Eight Nights of Food 'n Fun for Chanukah | Notable |
| 1988 | Jane Yolen | | The Devil's Arithmetic | Winner |
| 1988 | Jacqueline Dembar Greene | | Out of Many Waters | Honor |
| 1988 | Gary Provost and Gail Provost | | David and Max | Honor |
| 1988 | Chaya Burstein | | A Kid's Catalog of Israel | Notable |
| 1988 | Chaya Burstein | | The Mystery of the Coins | Notable |
| 1988 | Miriam Chaikin | Richard Egielski | Friends Forever | Notable |
| 1988 | Barry Cytron | | Fire! The Library Is Burning | Notable |
| 1988 | Miriam Elias | | And Then There Were Four | Notable |
| 1988 | Johanna Hurwitz | Vera Rosenberry | Anne Frank: Life in Hiding | Notable |
| 1989 | Lois Lowry | | Number the Stars | Winner |
| 1989 | Ferida Wolff | | Pink Slippers, Bat Mitzvah Blues | Honor |
| 1989 | Sonia Levitin | | Silver Days | Honor |
| 1989 | Carol Matas | | Lisa's War | Honor |
| 1989 | David A. Adler | | We Remember the Holocaust | Notable |
| 1989 | Miriam Chaikin | Denise Saldutti | Feathers in the Wind | Notable |
| 1989 | Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | The Wailing Wall | Notable |
| 1989 | Marc Gellman | Oscar de Mejo | Does God Have a Big Toe? | Notable |
| 1989 | Jane Breskin Zalben | | Earth to Andrew O. Blechman | Notable |
| 1990 | Adèle Geras | | My Grandmother's Stories | Winner |
| 1990 | Christa Laird | | Shadow of the Wall | Honor |
| 1990 | Evelyn Wilde Mayerson | | The Cat Who Escaped from Steerage | Honor |
| 1990 | Barbara Barrie | | Lone Star | Notable |
| 1990 | Miriam Chaikin | Erika Weihs | Menorahs, Mezuzas, and Other Jewish Symbols | Notable |
| 1990 | Sharlya Gold and Mishael Maswari Caspi | Marjory Wunsch | The Answered Prayer and Other Yemenite Folktales | Notable |
| 1990 | Charlotte Herman | Susan Avishai | The House on Walenska Street | Notable |
| 1990 | Carol Matas | | Code Name Kris | Notable |
| 1990 | Eileen Bluestone Sherman | | Independence Avenue | Notable |
| 1990 | Yale Strom | | A Tree Stands Still: Jewish Youth in Eastern Europe Today | Notable |
| 1990 | Terry Walton Treseder | Lloyd Bloom | Hear O Israel: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable |
| 1990 | Fran Weissenberg | | The Streets Are Paved with Gold | Notable |
| 1991 | Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush | Uri Shulevitz | The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World | Winner |
| 1991 | Natalie S. Bober | Vera Rosenberry | Marc Chagall, Painter of Dreams | Notable |
| 1991 | Marilyn Kaye | | The Atonement of Mindy Wise | Notable |
| 1991 | Michael Marpugo | | Waiting for Anya | Notable |
| 1991 | Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | | The Man from the Other Side | Notable |
| 1991 | Steve Sanfield | Mikhail Magaril | The Feather Merchants and Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm | Notable |
| 1991 | Ida Vos, translated by Terese Edelstein and Inez Smidt | | Hide and Seek | Notable |
| 1991 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | The Fortuneteller in 5B | Notable |
| 1992 | Karen Hesse | | Letters from Rifka | Winner |
| 1992 | Robert Cormier | | Tunes for Bears to Dance to | Honor |
| 1992 | Eilís Dillon | | Children of Bach | Notable |
| 1992 | Robert Lehrman | | The Store That Mama Built | Notable |
| 1992 | Joan Lowery Nixon | | Ellis Island: Land of Hope | Notable |
| 1992 | Seymour Rossel | | The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945 | Notable |
| 1992 | Phyllis Shalant | | Shalom, Geneva Peace | Notable |
| 1993 | Carol Matas | | Sworn Enemies | Winner |
| 1993 | Sharon Linnea | | Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death | Honor |
| 1993 | Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin | | Jacob's Rescue | Notable |
| 1993 | Sonia Levitin | | The Golem and the Dragon Girl | Notable |
| 1993 | Nancy Smiler Levinson | Beth Peck | Sweet Notes, Sour Notes | Notable |
| 1993 | Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | | Lydia, Queen of Palestine | Notable |
| 1993 | Danny Siegel | | Tell Me a Mitzvah | Notable |
| 1993 | Nelly S. Toll | | Behind the Secret Window | Notable |
| 1993 | Rudd Van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven, translated by Tony Langham and Plym Peters | | Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary | Notable |
| 1993 | Ida Vos | | Anna is Still Here | Notable |
| 1993 | Karen Zeinert | | The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Notable |
| 1994 | Steven Schnur | Herbert Tauss | The Shadow Children | Winner |
| 1994 | Jacqueline Dembar Greene | | One Foot Ashore | Honor |
| 1994 | Karen Ackerman | Elizabeth Sayles | The Night Crossing | Notable |
| 1994 | David A. Adler | Karen Ritz | Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust | Notable |
| 1994 | Susan D. Bachrach | | Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust | Notable |
| 1994 | Lillian Boraks-Nemetz | | The Old Brown Suitcase | Notable |
| 1994 | Barbara Cohen | Jan Naimo Jones | Make a Wish Molly | Notable |
| 1994 | Barry Cytron and Phyllis Cytron | | Myriam Mendilow, Mother of Jerusalem | Notable |
| 1994 | Malka Drucker | Nancy Patz | The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays | Notable |
| 1994 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Neil Waldman | The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion | Notable |
| 1994 | Jacqueline Jules | Michael Cressy | Grey Striped Shirt: How Grandma and Grandpa Survived the Holocaust | Notable |
| 1994 | Sonia Levitin | | Escape from Egypt | Notable |
| 1995 | Ida Vos | | Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon | Winner |
| 1995 | Carolyn Meyer | | Drummers of Jericho | Honor |
| 1995 | David A. Adler | Karen Ritz | Child of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable |
| 1995 | Molly Cone | Roy Doty | Listen to the Trees | Notable |
| 1995 | Dean Engel and Florence Freedman | | Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with Illustrations | Notable |
| 1995 | Marc Gellman and Thomas Hartman | Joseph A. Smith | How Do You Spell God?: Answers to the Big Questions from Around the World | Notable |
| 1995 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Erika Weihs | Bat Mitzvah | Notable |
| 1995 | Eric A. Kimmel | Trina Schart Hyman | The Adventures of Hershel of Ostropol | Notable |
| 1995 | Eric A. Kimmel | Erika Weihs | Bar Mitzvah | Notable |
| 1995 | Stephanie McPherson | | Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein | Notable |
| 1995 | Lila Perl | Donna Ruff | Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Life of a Storyteller | Notable |
| 1995 | Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | Golem: A Giant Made of Mud | Notable |
| 1995 | Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell, editors | | Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust | Notable |
| 1995 | Deborah Lee Rose | Greg Shed | The Rose Horse | Notable |
| 1995 | Nava Semel, translated by Hillel Halkin | | Flying Lessons | Notable |
| 1995 | Devra Speregen | | Yoni Netanyahu: Commando at Entebbe | Notable |
| 1995 | Gail B. Stewart | | Life in the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable |
| 1995 | Xin Xu, with Beverly Friend | Ting Cheng | Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng | Notable |
| 1995 | Jane Yolen | Jean Gralley | And Twelve Chinese Acrobats | Notable |
| 1996 | Maxine Rose Schur | Brian Pinkney | When I Left My Village | Winner |
| 1996 | Diane Wolkstein | Juan Wijngaard | Esther's Story | Honor |
| 1996 | Marc Gellman | Debbie Tilley | God's Mailbox: More Stories about Stories in the Bible | Notable |
| 1996 | Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith | Lawrence Migdale | Celebrating Hanukkah | Notable |
| 1996 | Hanneke Ippisch | | Sky | Notable |
| 1996 | Sharon Kirsch | | Fitting In | Notable |
| 1996 | Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan | | Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story | Notable |
| 1996 | Abraham Rabinovich | | Teddy Kollek: Builder of Jerusalem | Notable |
| 1996 | Barbara Rogasky | Trina Schart Hyman | The Golem | Notable |
| 1996 | Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush, editors | Stephen Fieser | The Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales | Notable |
| 1996 | Sheila Segal | | Women of Valor: Stories of Great Jewish Women Who Helped Shape the Twentieth Century | Notable |
| 1996 | Ellen Stern | | Elie Wiesel: A Voice for Humanity | Notable |
| 1996 | Dvora Waysman | | Back of Beyond: A Bar Mitzvah Journey | Notable |
| 1996 | David Wisniewski | David Wisniewski | Golem | Notable |
| 1996 | Jane Breskin Zalben | | Unfinished Dreams | Notable |
| 1997 | Nina Jaffe | Elivia Savadier | The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah | Winner |
| 1997 | Livia Bitton-Jackson | | I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust | Honor |
| 1997 | Lee Cha'ah Batterman | James Wattling | Two Cents and a Milk Bottle | Notable |
| 1997 | Ilene Cooper | John Thompson | The Dead Sea Scrolls | Notable |
| 1997 | Kirk Douglas | | The Broken Mirror: A Novella | Notable |
| 1997 | Alison Leslie Gold | | Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend | Notable |
| 1997 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Elaine Greenstein | While the Candles Burn: Eight Stories for Hanukkah | Notable |
| 1997 | Gloria Kamen | | Hidden Music: The Life of Fanny Mendelssohn | Notable |
| 1997 | Jan Mark | David Parkin | God's Story: How God Made Mankind | Notable |
| 1997 | Carol Matas | | The Garden | Notable |
| 1997 | Ken Mochizuki | Dom Lee | Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story | Notable |
| 1997 | Steven Schnur | Meryl Treatner | The Koufax Dilemma | Notable |
| 1997 | Faye Silton | | Of Heroes, Hooks, and Heirlooms | Notable |
| 1997 | Eva Wiseman | | A Place Not Home | Notable |
| 1998 | Donna Jo Napoli | | Stones in Water | Winner |
| 1998 | Dede Fox Ducharme | | The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin | Honor |
| 1998 | Sonia Levitin | | The Singing Mountain | Honor |
| 1998 | Anita Lobel | | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Honor |
| 1998 | Miriam Chaikin | David Frampton | Clouds of Glory | Notable |
| 1998 | Johanna Hurwitz | Mary Azarian | Faraway Summer | Notable |
| 1998 | Eric A. Kimmel | Emily Lisker | A Hanukkah Treasury | Notable |
| 1998 | Jane Kurtz | | The Storyteller's Beads | Notable |
| 1998 | Kathryn Lasky | | Dreams of the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, A Jewish Immigrant Girl | Notable |
| 1998 | Carol Matas | | Greater Than Angels | Notable |
| 1998 | Maida Silverman | Susan Avishai | Israel: The Founding of a Modern Nation | Notable |
| 1998 | Neil Waldman | | Masada | Notable |
| 1999 | Sybil Rosen | | The Speed of Light | Winner |
| 1999 | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Jerry Pinkney | Journeys with Elijah | Honor |
| 1999 | Julius Lester | Emily Lisker | When The Beginning Began: Stories About God, the Creatures and Us | Honor |
| 1999 | Vera Propp | | When the Soldiers Were Gone | Honor |
| 1999 | Sandy Asher, editor | | With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing Up Jewish | Notable |
| 1999 | Miriam Bat Ami | | Two Suns in the Sky | Notable |
| 1999 | Livia Bitton-Jackson | | My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love after Auschwitz | Notable |
| 1999 | Sandra Giddens | | Escape: Teens Who Escaped the Holocaust to Freedom | Notable |
| 1999 | Beatrice Gormley | | Miriam | Notable |
| 1999 | Anna Levine | | Running on Eggs | Notable |
| 1999 | Sonia Levitin | | The Cure | Notable |
| 1999 | Mikki Machlin | | My Name Is Not Gussie | Notable |
| 1999 | Gregory Maguire | | The Good Liar | Notable |
| 1999 | Carol Matas | | In My Enemy's House | Notable |
| 1999 | Lois Metzger | | Missing Girls | Notable |
| 1999 | Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush, editors | Michael Iofin | A Coat for the Moon and Other Jewish Tales | Notable |
| 1999 | John Severance | | Einstein: Visionary Scientist | Notable |
| 1999 | Marc Talbert | | Star of Luís | Notable |
| 2000 | Ida Vos | | The Key Is Lost | Winner |
| 2000 | Amy Hest | Sonja Lamut | Love You, Soldier | Honor |
| 2000 | Susan Goldman Rubin | Neil Waldman | Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin | Honor |
| 2000 | Gabriella Carmi, translated by Yael Lotan | | Samir and Yonatan | Notable |
| 2000 | Carmen Agra Deedy | Henry Sorensen | The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark | Notable |
| 2000 | Arlene B. Hirschfelder | | Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalho's Remarkable Western Adventure, 1853-1854 | Notable |
| 2000 | Ann Isaacs | | Torn Thread | Notable |
| 2000 | Nina Jaffe | Kelly Stribling Sutherland | Tales for the Seventh Day | Notable |
| 2000 | Eric A. Kimmel | Mordicai Gerstein | The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm | Notable |
| 2000 | Julius Lester | | Pharaoh's Daughter | Notable |
| 2000 | Ellen Levine | | Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | Notable |
| 2000 | Marissa Moss | Marissa Moss | Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl | Notable |
| 2000 | Rahel Musleah | Louise August | Why on This Night? A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration | Notable |
| 2000 | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Butterfly | Notable |
| 2000 | Rosalind Schanzer | | Escaping to America: A True Story | Notable |
| 2000 | Howard Schwartz | Monique Passicot | The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic | Notable |
| 2000 | Frank Dabba Smith | Mendel Grossman | My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto | Notable |
| 2000 | Marilyn Taylor | | Faraway Home | Notable |
| 2000 | Eva Vogiel | | Invisible Chains | Notable |
| 2000 | Irene Watts | | Remember Me: A Search for Refuge in Wartime Britain | Notable |
| 2001 | Catherine Reef | | Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind | Winner |
| 2001 | Martha Attema | | Daughter of Light | Notable |
| 2001 | Toby Axelrod | | Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose | Notable |
| 2001 | Harriet Feder | | Death on Sacred Ground | Notable |
| 2001 | Kathy Kacer | | Clara's War | Notable |
| 2001 | Teri Kanefield | | Rivka's Way | Notable |
| 2001 | Mark Kornblatt | | Understanding Buddy | Notable |
| 2001 | Amy Koss | | Stolen Words | Notable |
| 2001 | Fran Manushkin | Uri Shulevitz | Daughter of Fire: Heroines of the Bible | Notable |
| 2001 | Carol Matas | | The War Within | Notable |
| 2001 | Gloria Miklowitz | | Secrets in the House of Delgado | Notable |
| 2001 | Connie Steiner | Denis Rodier | Shoes for Amelie | Notable |
| 2001 | Eva Vogiel | | Friend of Foe? | Notable |
| 2001 | Andrea Warren | | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Notable |
| 2001 | Ilse Weber, translated by Ruth and Hans Fisher | | Mendel Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish Children | Notable |
| 2001 | Jane Breskin Zalben | Donna Diamond | The Magic Menorah: A Modern Chanukah Tale | Notable |
| 2002 | Karen Levine | | Hana's Suitcase | Winner |
| 2002 | Eve Bunting | K. Wendy Popp | One Candle | Honor |
| 2002 | Esther Hautzig | Beth Peck | A Picture of Grandmother | Honor |
| 2002 | Barbara Rogasky | | Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust, Revised and Expanded | Honor |
| 2002 | Chaya Burstein | | The Kids' Cartoon Bible | Notable |
| 2002 | Miriam Chaikin | Stephen Fieser | Alexandra's Scroll: The Story of the First Hanukkah | Notable |
| 2002 | Miriam Chaikin | Alexander Koshkin | Angels Sweep the Desert Floor: Bible Legends about Moses in the Wilderness | Notable |
| 2002 | Andrea Cheng | | Marika | Notable |
| 2002 | Ilene Cooper | Elivia Savadier | Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury | Notable |
| 2002 | Norman H. Finkelstein | | Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience | Notable |
| 2002 | Marc Gellman | Harry Bliss | And God Cried, Too: A Kid's Book About Healing and Hope | Notable |
| 2002 | James C. Giblin | | The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler | Notable |
| 2002 | Clive A. Lawton | | Auschwitz: The Story of a Nazi Death Camp | Notable |
| 2002 | Carol Ann Lee | | Anne Frank's Story: Her Life Retold for Children | Notable |
| 2002 | Barbara Rogasky | | Smoke | Notable |
| 2002 | Carol Matas | | Sparks Fly Upward | Notable |
| 2002 | Richard Michelson | Neil Waldman | Too Young for Yiddish | Notable |
| 2002 | Kenneth Roseman | | Jeremiah's Promise: An Adventure in Modern Israel | Notable |
| 2002 | Howard Schwartz | Stephen Fieser | Invisible Kingdoms: Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits, and Demons | Notable |
| 2002 | Eva Vogiel | | Facing the Music | Notable |
| 2002 | Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Promised Land: The Birth of the Jewish People | Notable |
| 2002 | Irene Watts | | Finding Sophie: A Search for Belonging in Postwar Britain | Notable |
| 2003 | Nancy Patz | | Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? | Winner |
| 2003 | Marian Broida | | Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide | Honor |
| 2003 | Edward Feinstein | | Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish Life | Honor |
| 2003 | Tracy Mack | | Birdland | Honor |
| 2003 | Anna Claybourne | | Golda Meir | Notable |
| 2003 | Adèle Geras | Anita Lobel | My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folktales | Notable |
| 2003 | Karen Hesse | Brian Pinkney | The Stone Lamp: Eight Stories of Hanukkah through History | Notable |
| 2003 | Deborah Hopkinson | | Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York | Notable |
| 2003 | Sonia Levitin | | Room in the Heart | Notable |
| 2003 | Carol Matas | | Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! | Notable |
| 2003 | Gloria Miklowitz | | The Enemy Has a Face | Notable |
| 2003 | Or Rose | | Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man of Spirit, Man of Action | Notable |
| 2003 | Liz Sonneborn | | Murder at the 1972 Olympics in Munich | Notable |
| 2003 | Jerry Spinelli | | Milkweed | Notable |
| 2003 | Tanya Stone | | Ilan Ramon: Israel's First Astronaut | Notable |
| 2003 | Luba Tryszynska-Frederick, as told to Michelle McCann | Ann Marshall | Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen | Notable |
| 2003 | Jude Welton | | Marc Chagall | Notable |
| 2004 | Pnina Moed Kass | | Real Time | Winner |
| 2004 | David Chotjewitz, translated by Doris Orgel | | Daniel, Half-Human | Honor |
| 2004 | Anne Dublin | | Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything | Honor |
| 2004 | Karen Hesse | Wendy Watson | The Cats in Krasinski Square | Honor |
| 2004 | Eric A. Kimmel | | Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion | Honor |
| 2004 | Sylvie Weil, translated by Gillian Rosner | | My Guardian Angel | Honor |
| 2004 | David A. Adler | | The Kids' Catalog of Hanukkah | Notable |
| 2004 | Hagit Allon and Lena Zehavi | Yossi Abulafia | The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls | Notable |
| 2004 | Bruce Feiler | Sasha Meret | Walking the Bible: An Illustrated Journey for Kids | Notable |
| 2004 | Susan Goldman Rubin | | L'Chaim: to Jewish life in America | Notable |
| 2004 | Margaret J. Goldstein | | Israel in Pictures | Notable |
| 2004 | David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg | | Duel | Notable |
| 2004 | Tony Johnston | Ron Mazellan | The Harmonica | Notable |
| 2004 | Kathy Kacer | | The Underground Reporters | Notable |
| 2004 | Kathy Walden Kaplan | | The Dog of Knots | Notable |
| 2004 | Gail Langer Karwoski | Robert Papp | Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906 | Notable |
| 2004 | Carol Matas | | Rosie in Los Angeles: Action! | Notable |
| 2004 | Sharon E. McKay | | Esther | Notable |
| 2004 | Stephanie McPherson | | Albert Einstein | Notable |
| 2004 | Moshe Moscowitz | David Sokoloff | The Queen of Persia | Notable |
| 2004 | M.E. Rabb | | Missing Persons: The Chocolate Lover | Notable |
| 2004 | Peter W. Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand | | Six Million Paper Clips | Notable |
| 2004 | Josepha Sherman | | Your Travel Guide to Ancient Israel | Notable |
| 2004 | Barbara Sofer | | Ilan Ramon: Israel's Space Hero | Notable |
| 2004 | Devra Newberger Speregen | | Ilan Ramon: Jewish Star | Notable |
| 2004 | Judy Steinberg and Barbara Tabs | Bill Hauser | Matzah Meals: A Passover Cookbook for Kids (revised edition) | Notable |
| 2005 | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. |
| 2006 | Sarah Darer Littman | | Confessions of a Closet Catholic | Winner |
| 2006 | Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and Bernice Steinhardt | | Memories of Survival | Honor |
| 2006 | Donna Jo Napoli | | The King of Mulberry Street | Honor |
| 2006 | Holly-Jane Rahlens | | Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me | Honor |
| 2006 | Uri Shulevitz | Uri Shulevitz | The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century | Honor |
| 2006 | Penina Adelman, Ali Feldman and Shulamit Reinharz | | The JGirls' Guide: The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of Age | Notable |
| 2006 | Robert J. Avrech | | The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden | Notable |
| 2006 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Notable |
| 2006 | Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi | Susanna Natti | Four Sides, Eight Nights: A New Spin on Hanukkah | Notable |
| 2006 | Marfe Ferguson Delano | | Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein | Notable |
| 2006 | Linda Glaser | | Bridge to America | Notable |
| 2006 | Howard Greenfeld | | A Promise Fulfilled: Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weitzmann, and David Ben-Gurion, and the Creation of the State of Israel | Notable |
| 2006 | Kathryn Lasky | | Broken Soup | Notable |
| 2006 | Isaac Millman | | Hidden Child | Notable |
| 2006 | June Levitt Nislick | | Zayda Was a Cowboy | Notable |
| 2006 | Josephine Poole | Angela Barrett | Anne Frank | Notable |
| 2006 | Doreen Rappaport | Emily Arnold McCully | The Secret Seder | Notable |
| 2006 | Susan Goldman Rubin | Bill Farnsworth | The Flag with Fifty-Six Stars | Notable |
| 2006 | Marisabina Russo | | Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II | Notable |
| 2006 | Marilyn Sachs | | Lost in America | Notable |
| 2006 | Tammar Stein | | Light Years | Notable |
| 2006 | Eve Tal | | Double Crossing: A Jewish Immigration Story | Notable |
| 2006 | Valérie Zenatti, translated by Adriana Hunter | | When I Was a Soldier: A Memoir | Notable |
| 2007 | Brenda Ferber | | Julia's Kitchen | Winner |
| 2007 | Esme Raji Codell | | Vive La Paris | Honor |
| 2007 | Sheldon Oberman | | Solomon and the Ant and Other Jewish Folktales | Honor |
| 2007 | Jennifer Roy | | Yellow Star | Honor |
| 2007 | Linda Press Wulf | | The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story | Honor |
| 2007 | Judith Z. Abrams | | The Secret World of Kabbalah | Notable |
| 2007 | Sid Fleischman | | Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini | Notable |
| 2007 | D. Dina Friedman | | Escaping into the Night | Notable |
| 2007 | Yankev Glatshteyn, translated by Jeffrey Shandler | | Emil and Karl | Notable |
| 2007 | Kathy Kacer | | Hiding Edith: A True Story | Notable |
| 2007 | Marlee Pinsker | François Thisdale | In the Days of Sand and Stars | Notable |
| 2007 | Susan Goldman Rubin with Ela Weissberger | | The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin | Notable |
| 2007 | Karen Schwabach | | A Pickpocket's Tale | Notable |
| 2007 | Ellen Schwartz | | Stealing Home | Notable |
| 2008 | Sid Fleischman | | The Entertainer and the Dybbuk | Winner |
| 2008 | Angela Gluck Wood and Dan Stone. | | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | Honor |
| 2008 | Peter Lane Taylor and Christos Nicola | | The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story | Honor |
| 2008 | Tina Grimberg | | Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet | Notable |
| 2008 | Eric A. Kimmel | Matthew Trueman | A Picture for Marc | Notable |
| 2008 | Ann Kramer | | Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who Told the World Her Story | Notable |
| 2008 | Constance Leeds | | The Silver Cup | Notable |
| 2008 | Tami Lehman-Wilzig | Elizabeth Wolf | Passover Around the World | Notable |
| 2008 | Jane Zalben | Jane Zalben | Story | Notable |
| 2008 | Carol Matas | | Whirlwind | Notable |
| 2008 | Rebecca O'Connell | Majella Lue Sue | Penina Levine Is a Hard-Boiled Egg | Notable |
| 2008 | T. S. Yavin | | All-Star Season | Notable |
| 2009 | Karen Hesse | | Brooklyn Bridge | Winner |
| 2009 | Aranka Siegal | | Memories of Babi | Honor |
| 2009 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | | The Boy Who Dared: A Novel Based on the True Story of a Hitler Youth | Notable |
| 2009 | Julie Durango | Tom Pohrt | The Walls of Cartegena | Notable |
| 2009 | Edward M. Feinstein | | Capturing the Moon | Notable |
| 2009 | Stephanie Fitzgerald | | Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass: Igniting the Nazi War Against Jews | Notable |
| 2009 | Charlotte Herman | LeUyen Pham | My Chocolate Year | Notable |
| 2009 | Michael Morpurgo | Michael Forman | The Mozart Question | Notable |
| 2009 | Marc Tyler Nobleman | Ross McDonald | Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman | Notable |
| 2009 | Bat-Chen Shahak | | The Bat-Chen Diaries: Selected Writings | Notable |
| 2009 | Barbara Sofer | | Keeping Israel Safe: Serving in the Israel Defense Forces | Notable |
| 2009 | Joan Betty Stuchner | Cynthia Nugent | Honey Cake | Notable |
| 2010 | Robin Friedman | | The Importance of Wings | Winner |
| 2010 | Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans | | Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House | Honor |
| 2010 | Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenck | | A Faraway Island | Honor |
| 2010 | Tomek Bogacki | | The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak | Notable |
| 2010 | Kathy Clark | | Guardian Angel House | Notable |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Dembar Greene | Robert Hunt | Rebecca Series (American Girl Collection) | Notable |
| 2010 | Mary Ann Hoberman | Wendy Anderson Halperin | Strawberry Hill | Notable |
| 2010 | Russell Martin and Lydia Nibley | | The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair | Notable |
| 2010 | Carol Garbuny Vogel and Yossi Leshem | | The Man Who Flies with Birds | Notable |
| 2010 | Irene N. Watts | Kathryn E. Shoemaker | Clay Man: The Golem of Prague | Notable |
| 2010 | Sylvia Weil | | Elvina's Mirror | Notable |
| 2011 | Barry Deutsch | Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | Winner |
| 2011 | Carla Jablonski | Leland Purvis | Resistance | Honor |
| 2011 | Evelyn Krieger | | One Is Not a Lonely Number | Honor |
| 2011 | Susan Lynn Meyer | | Black Radishes | Honor |
| 2011 | Fern Schumer Chapman | | Is It Night or Day? | Notable |
| 2011 | Laurie Coulter | Mary Newbigging | Kings and Carpenters: One Hundred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Panned | Notable |
| 2011 | Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon | Craig Orback | Hot Pursuit: Murder in Mississippi | Notable |
| 2011 | Anne Dublin | Qin Leng | The Orphan Rescue | Notable |
| 2011 | Debbie Levy | | The Year of Goodbyes | Notable |
| 2011 | Trisha Marx | Cindy Karp | Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp | Notable |
| 2011 | Sylvia Rouss | Martha Rast | Mitzvah the Mutt | Notable |
| 2012 | Susan Goldman Rubin | | Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | Winner |
| 2012 | Trina Robbins | Anne Timmons and Mo Oh | Lily Renee, Escape Artist: from Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer | Honor |
| 2012 | Shelley Sommer | | Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer | Honor |
| 2012 | Marcia Vaughan | Ron Mazellan | Irena's Jars of Secrets | Honor |
| 2012 | Avrohom Biderman | | The Mishkan: Its Structure and Its Sacred Vessels | Notable |
| 2012 | Albert Marrin | | Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy | Notable |
| 2012 | Yona Zeldis McDonough | Heather Maione | The Cats in the Doll Shop | Notable |
| 2012 | Erica S. Perl | | When Life Gives You O.J. | Notable |
| 2012 | Susan Goldman Rubin | Bill Farnsworth | Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable |
| 2012 | Ruth Thomson | | Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust | Notable |
| 2013 | Louise Borden | | His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg | Winner |
| 2013 | Ann Redisch Stampler | Carol Liddiment | The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from Afghanistan | Honor |
| 2014 | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Blessing Cup | Winner |
| 2014 | Leon Leyson, with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson | | The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's list | Honor |
| 2014 | Carol Matas | | Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948 | Honor |
| 2015 | Loïc Dauvillier | Marc Lizano and Greg Salsedo (colors) | Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust | Winner |
| 2015 | Donna Gephart | | Death by Toilet Paper | Honor |
| 2015 | Jennifer Elvgren | Fabio Santomauro | Whispering Town | Honor |
| 2016 | Aharon Appelfeld | Philippe Dumas | Adam and Thomas | Winner |
| 2016 | Barry Deutsch | Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish | Honor |
| 2016 | Angela Cerrito | | The Safest Lie | Notable |
| 2016 | Irene Cohen-Janka | Maurizio A. C. Quarello | Mr. Doctor: Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable |
| 2016 | Cynthia Levinson | | Watch Out for Flying Kids: How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community | Notable |
| 2016 | J. Patrick Lewis | Yevgenia Nayberg | The Wren and the Sparrow | Notable |
| 2016 | Rob Sharenow | | The Girl in the Torch | Notable |
| 2017 | Adam Gidwitz | Hatem Aly | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Winner |
| 2017 | Joel Izzy | | Driedels on the Brain | Honor |
| 2017 | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Johnson Steve and Lou Fancher | A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day | Honor |
| 2017 | Rona Arato | | The Ship to Nowhere: On Board the Exodus | Notable |
| 2017 | Tilar J. Mazzeo, adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell | | Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition: A True Story of Courage | Notable |
| 2017 | Yona Zeldis McDonough | | The Bicycle Spy | Notable |
| 2017 | Susan Lynn Meyer | | Skating with the Statue of Liberty | Notable |
| 2018 | Alan Gratz | | Refugee | Winner |
| 2018 | Susan Krawitz | | Viva Rose! | Honor |
| 2018 | Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang | | This is Just a Test | Honor |
| 2018 | Tammar Stein | | The Six Day Hero | Honor |
| 2018 | Michelle Bisson | El Primo Ramón | Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust | Notable |
| 2018 | Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, adapted by Emil Sher | | The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival during World War II: Young Readers Edition | Notable |
| 2018 | Sydelle Pearl | | Wordwings | Notable |
| 2018 | R. M. Romero | | The Dollmaker of Krakow | Notable |
| 2019 | Jonathan Auxier | | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Winner |
| 2019 | Erica Perl | | All Three Stooges | Honor |
| 2019 | Elissa Brent Weissman | | The Length of a String | Honor |
| 2019 | Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman | David Polonsky | Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | Notable |
| 2019 | Lisa Greenwald | | 12 Before 13 | Notable |
| 2019 | Jacqueline Jules | Kristina Swarner | Light the Menorah: A Hanukkah Handbook | Notable |
| 2020 | R. J. Palacio | R. J. Palacio | White Bird: A Wonder Story | Winner |
| 2020 | Sofiya Pasternack | | Anya and the Dragon | Honor |
| 2020 | Andrew Maraniss | | Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany | Honor |
| 2020 | Kathy Kacer | | Masters of Silence | Notable |
| 2020 | Edeet Ravel | | A Boy is Not a Bird | Notable |
| 2020 | Ferida Wolff | Margeaux Lucas | Rachel's Roses | Notable |
| 2021 | M. Evan Wolkenstein | | Turtle Boy | Winner |
| 2021 | Anne Blankman | | The Blackbird Girls | Honor |
| 2021 | Tziporah Cohen | | No Vacancy | Honor |
| 2021 | Sofiya Pasternack | | Anya and the Nightingale | Honor |
| 2021 | Tammar Stein | | Beni's War | Notable |
| 2021 | Deborah Hopkinson | | We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport | Notable |
| 2021 | Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan | | A Place at the Table | Notable |
| 2021 | Ruth Behar | | Letters from Cuba | Notable |
| 2022 | Veera Hiranandani | | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | Winner |
| 2022 | Eugene Yelchin | Eugene Yelchin | The Genius Under the Table: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain | Honor |
| 2022 | Gordon Korman | | Linked | Honor |
| 2022 | Chris Baron | | The Magical Imperfect | Notable |
| 2022 | Joanne Levy | | Sorry For Your Loss | Notable |
| 2022 | Allison Marks and Wayne Marks | | Benny Feldman's All-Star Klezmer Band | Notable |
| 2023 | Mari Lowe | | Aviva vs. the Dybbuk | Winner |
| 2023 | Meira Drazin | | Honey and Me | Honor |
| 2023 | Sofiya Pasternack | | Black Bird, Blue Road | Honor |
| 2023 | A. J. Sass | | Ellen Outside the Lines | Honor |
| 2023 | Susan Hood, with Greg Dawson | | Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis | Notable |
| 2023 | Marissa Moss | Marissa Moss | The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner | Notable |
| 2023 | Stacy Nockowitz | | The Prince of Steel Pier | Notable |
| 2024 | Mari Lowe | | The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman | Winner |
| 2024 | Deke Moulton | | Don’t Want to Be Your Monster | Honor |
| 2024 | Joshua S. Levy | | The Jake Show | Honor |
| 2024 | Noa Nimrodi | | Not So Shy | Honor |
| 2024 | Susan Lynn Meyer | | A Sky Full of Song | Honor |
| 2025 | Estelle Nadel and Bethany Strout | Sammy Savos | The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival | Winner |
| 2025 | Ruth Behar | | Across So Many Seas | Honor |
| 2025 | Joshua S. Levy | | Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop | Honor |
| 2025 | A. J. Sass | | Just Shy of Ordinary | Honor |
| 2025 | Deke Moulton | | Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf | Notable |
| 2025 | Adam Gidwitz | | Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II | Notable |
| 2025 | Deborah Lakritz | | Things That Shimmer | Notable |

### Teen Reader / Young Adult (1985–present)

The "Teen Reader" category was first issued in 1985, though it was released intermittently. In 2020, the category was renamed as the "Young Adult" category.
| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Result |
| 1985 | Judie Angell | | One Way to Ansonia | Notable |
| 1985 | Linda Atkinson | | In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 | Notable |
| 1985 | Margery Evernden | | The Dream Keeper | Notable |
| 1985 | Stephen Kaufman | | Does Anyone Here Know the Way to Thirteen? | Notable |
| 1985 | Leonie Ossowski | | Star without a Sky | Notable |
| 1985 | Sarah Silberstein Swartz | | Bar Mitzvah | Notable |
| 1986 | Donn Kushner | | Uncle Jacob's Ghost Story | Notable |
| 1986 | Marilyn Lager | Eric Lager | Sigmund Freud: Doctor of the Mind | Notable |
| 1986 | Nancy Smiler Levinson | | I Lift My Lamp: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty | Notable |
| 1986 | Anne E. Neimark | | One Man's Valor: Leo Baeck and the Holocaust | Notable |
| 1986 | Eileen Bluestone Sherman | | Monday in Odessa | Notable |
| 1986 | Miriam Stark Zakon | Sigmund Forst | The Floating Minyan of Pirate's Cove | Notable |
| 1987 | Merrill Joah Gerber | | Also Known as Sadzia! The Belly Dancer! | Notable |
| 1987 | Malka Drucker | | Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: The Father of Modern Hebrew | Notable |
| 1987 | David Gross | | A Justice for All the People: Louis D. Brandeis | Notable |
| 1987 | Hazel Krantz | | Daughter of My People: Henrietta Szold and Hadassah | Notable |
| 1987 | Lawrence Kushner | Devis Grebu | The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spirituality | Notable |
| 1987 | Ilana Shamir (editor) | | The Young Reader's Encyclopedia of Jewish History | Notable |
| 1987 | Pu'ah Shteiner | | Forever My Jerusalem | Notable |
| 1988 | Milton Meltzer | | Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust | Honor |
| 1988 | David M. Brownstone | | The Jewish American Heritage | Notable |
| 1988 | Diane Lefer | | Emma Lazarus | Notable |
| 1988 | Barbara Rogasky | | Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust | Notable |
| 1988 | Renee Roth-Hano | | Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France | Notable |
| 1989 | Mark Bernheim | | Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz Korczak | Notable |
| 1989 | Norman H. Finkelstein | | The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World | Notable |
| 1989 | Yair Hoffman | | The World of the Bible for Young Readers | Notable |
| 1989 | Pamela Melnikoff | | Plots and Players | Notable |
| 1989 | Margaret Sacks | | Beyond Safe Boundaries | Notable |
| 1989 | Efraim Sevela | | We Were Not Like Other People | Notable |
| 1995 | Gila Almagor, translated by Hillel Schenker | | Under the Domim Tree | Notable |
| 1995 | Elanor Ayer, et al. | | Parallel Journeys | Notable |
| 1995 | Lynne Reid Banks | | Broken Bridge | Notable |
| 1995 | Hazel Krantz | | Look to the Hills | Notable |
| 1995 | Christa Laird | | But Can the Phoenix Sing? | Notable |
| 1995 | Isobel V. Morin | | Days of Judgment: The World War II War Crimes Trials | Notable |
| 1995 | Lesléa Newman | | Fat Chance | Notable |
| 1995 | Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | | The Lady with the Hat | Notable |
| 1996 | Tricia Andryszewski | | The Amazing Life of Moe Berg: Catcher, Scholar, Spy | Notable |
| 1996 | Vivian Grey | | Moe Berg: The Spy Behind Home Plate | Notable |
| 1996 | Gerald Hausman | | Night Flight | Notable |
| 1996 | Hadley Irwin | | Sarah with an H | Notable |
| 1996 | Carol Matas | | After the War | Notable |
| 1996 | Carolyn Meyer | | Gideon's People | Notable |
| 1996 | Laura E. Williams | | Behind the Bedroom Wall | Notable |
| 1997 | Norman H. Finkelstein | | Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle | Notable |
| 1997 | Maxine Rose Schur | | Sacred Shadows | Notable |
| 1998 | Edith Baer | | Walk the Dark Streets | Notable |
| 1998 | Leonard Everett Fisher | | To Bigotry No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue in America | Notable |
| 1998 | Gloria Miklowitz | | Masada: The Last Fortress | Notable |
| 1998 | Schoschana Rabinovici, translated by James Skofield | | Thanks to My Mother | Notable |
| 1998 | Kathryn Winter | | Katarina | Notable |
| 2001 | Howard Greenfield | | After the Holocaust | Notable |
| 2001 | Gary D. Schmidt | | Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Dark | Notable |
| 2007 | Markus Zusak | | The Book Thief | Winner |
| 2007 | Alice Hoffman | | Incantation | Honor |
| 2007 | Dana Reinhardt | | A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life | Honor |
| 2007 | Deborah Bodin Cohen | | Lilith's Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women | Notable |
| 2007 | Jordan Sonnenblick | | Notes from the Midnight Driver | Notable |
| 2007 | T. K. Welsh | | The Unresolved | Notable |
| 2008 | Sonia Levitin | | Strange Relations | Winner |
| 2008 | Mirjam Pressler, translated by Erik J. Macki | | Let Sleeping Dogs Lie | Honor |
| 2008 | Simone Elkeles | | How to Ruin My Teenage Life | Notable |
| 2008 | Margo Rabb | | Cures for Heartbreak | Notable |
| 2008 | Deborah Durlan DeSaix & Karen Gray Ruelle | | Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon | Notable |
| 2008 | Marv Wolfman | Mario Ruiz | Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel | Notable |
| 2009 | Valérie Zenatti | | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Winner |
| 2009 | Anna Levine | | Freefall | Honor |
| 2009 | Robin Friedman | | Nothing | Notable |
| 2009 | Rutka Laskier | | Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust | Notable |
| 2009 | Leanne Lieberman | | Gravity | Notable |
| 2009 | Carol Matas | | The Freak | Notable |
| 2010 | Margarita Engle | | Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba | Winner |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Davies | | Lost | Honor |
| 2010 | Selma Kritzer Silverberg | | Naomi's Song | Honor |
| 2010 | Libi Astaire | | The Disappearing Dowry: An Ezra Melamed Mystery | Notable |
| 2010 | Eric Heuvel | | A Family Secret/The Search | Notable |
| 2010 | Micol Ostow | David Ostow | So Punk Rock (and Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother) | Notable |
| 2010 | Eve Goldberg Tal | | Cursing Columbus | Notable |
| 2010 | Eva Wiseman | | Puppet | Notable |
| 2010 | Kim Ablon Whitney | | The Other Half of Life | Notable |
| 2011 | Dana Reinhardt | | The Things a Brother Knows | Winner |
| 2011 | Eishes Chayil | | Hush | Honor |
| 2011 | Morris Gleitzman | | Once | Honor |
| 2011 | Sarah Darer Littman | | Life, After | Honor |
| 2011 | Elaine Marie Alphin | | An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank | Notable |
| 2011 | Sharon Dogar | | Annexed | Notable |
| 2011 | Margie Gelbwasser | | Inconvenient | Notable |
| 2011 | Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón | | Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography | Notable |
| 2011 | Jenny Meyerhoff | | Queen of Secrets | Notable |
| 2011 | Haya Leah Molnar | | Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania | Notable |
| 2011 | Judie Oron | | Cry of the Giraffe | Notable |
| 2012 | Robert Sharenow | | The Berlin Boxing Club | Winner |
| 2012 | Morris Gleitzman | | Then | Honor |
| 2012 | Shirley Reva Vernick | | The Blood Lie | Honor |
| 2012 | Paul B. Janeczko | | Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto | Notable |
| 2012 | Amy Fellner Dominy | | OyMG | Notable |
| 2013 | Deborah Heiligman | | Intentions | Winner |
| 2013 | Doreen Rappaport | | Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust | Honor |
| 2014 | Neal Bascomb | | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi | Winner |
| 2014 | Robyn Bavati | | Dancing in the Dark | Honor |
| 2014 | Aline Sax, translated by Laura Watkinson | Caryl Strzelecki | The War Within These Walls | Honor |
| 2015 | Donna Jo Napoli | | Storm | Winner |
| 2015 | Lila Perl | | Isabel's War | Honor |
| 2015 | Una LaMarche | | Like No Other | Honor |
| 2016 | Laura Amy Schlitz | | The Hired Girl | Winner |
| 2016 | Kathy Kacer | | Stones on a Grave | Honor |
| 2016 | Suzanne Nelson | | Serendipity's Footsteps | Honor |
| 2016 | Emily Franklin | | Last Night at the Circle Cinema | Notable |
| 2016 | Deborah Hopkinson | | Courage and Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | Notable |
| 2016 | Carol Solomon | | Imagining Katherine | Notable |
| 2016 | Annika Thor | | Deep Sea | Notable |
| 2017 | Gavriel Savit | | Anna and the Swallow Man | Winner |
| 2018 | Antonio Iturbe | | The Librarian of Auschwitz | Winner |
| 2018 | Kathy Kacer with Jordana Lebowitz | | To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial | Honor |
| 2018 | Marianne Kaurin | | Almost Autumn | Honor |
| 2018 | Katherine Locke | | The Girl With the Red Balloon | Honor |
| 2018 | Viktor E. Frankl | | Man's Search for Meaning: Young Reader Edition | Notable |
| 2018 | Pamela L. Laskin | | Ronit & Jamil | Notable |
| 2018 | L. B. Schulman | | Stolen Secrets | Notable |
| 2019 | Vesper Stamper | | What the Night Sings | Winner |
| 2019 | Rachel Lynn Solomon | | You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone | Honor |
| 2019 | Jennifer Nielsen | | Resistance | Notable |
| 2020 | Rachel DeWoskin | | Someday We Will Fly | Winner |
| 2020 | Victoria Ortiz | | Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work | Honor |
| 2020 | Hannah Moskowitz | | Sick Kids in Love | Honor |
| 2020 | Susan Kaplan Carlton | | In the Neighborhood of True | Notable |
| 2020 | Albert Marrin | | A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust | Notable |
| 2021 | Tyler Feder | Tyler Feder | Dancing at the Pity Party | Winner |
| 2021 | Monica Hesse | | They Went Left | Honor |
| 2021 | Rachel Lynn Solomon | | Today Tonight Tomorrow | Notable |
| 2021 | Adam Eli | | The New Queer Conscience | Notable |
| 2021 | Gavriel Savit | | The Way Back | Notable |
| 2021 | Liza Wiemer | | The Assignment | Notable |
| 2022 | Aden Polydoros | | The City Beautiful | Winner |
| 2022 | Leah Scheier | | The Last Words We Said | Honor |
| 2022 | E. Lockhart | Manuel Preitano | Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero | Honor |
| 2022 | Hannah Reynolds | | The Summer of Lost Letters | Honor |
| 2022 | Judy Batalion | | The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Young Readers’ Edition) | Notable |
| 2022 | Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal | | Why We Fly | Notable |
| 2022 | Judith Pransky | | The Seventh Handmaiden | Notable |
| 2022 | Robbie Waisman and Susan McClelland | | Boy From Buchenwald | Notable |
| 2023 | Sacha Lamb | | When the Angels Left the Old Country | Winner |
| 2023 | Jennieke Cohen | | My Fine Fellow: A Delicious Entanglement | Honor |
| 2023 | Sarah Darer Littman | | Some Kind of Hate | Honor |
| 2023 | Hannah Reynolds | | Eight Nights of Flirting | Honor |
| 2023 | Barbara Krasner | | Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems | Notable |
| 2023 | R. M. Romero | | The Ghosts of Rose Hill | Notable |
| 2024 | Elana K. Arnold | | The Blood Years | Winner |
| 2024 | Neal Shusterman | Andrés Vera Martínez | Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust | Honor |
| 2024 | Dahlia Adler | | Going Bicoastal | Honor |
| 2024 | Steve Sheinkin | | Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe | Honor |
| 2024 | Aden Polydoros | | Wrath Becomes Her | Honor |
| 2025 | A .R. Vishny | | Night Owls | Winner |
| 2025 | Sacha Lamb | | The Forbidden Book | Honor |
| 2025 | Cambria Gordon | | Trajectory | Honor |
| 2025 | Edith Eva Eger with Esme Schwall and Jordan Engle | | The Ballerina of Auschwitz | Notable |
| 2025 | Suzy Zail | | Inkflower | Notable |

### All Ages (2009–2010)

Award recipients :
| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Result |
| 2009 | Esther Takac | Anna Pignataro | Genesis -- The Book with Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family | Notable |
| 2009 | Rebecca Edid Ruzansky | Roberto Zeballos-Peralta | Celebrating with Jewish Crafts | Notable |
| 2010 | Ellen Frankel | Avi Katz | JPS Illustrated Children's Bible | Notable |