| Sydney Taylor Book Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Association of Jewish Libraries |
| First awarded | 1968 |
| Website | jewishlibraries |
The Sydney Taylor Book Award recognizes the best in Jewish children's literature. Medals are awarded annually for outstanding books that authentically portray the Jewish experience. The award was established in 1968 by the Association of Jewish Libraries. It is named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic All-of-a-Kind Family series. Taylor's were some of the first children's books with Jewish characters that were of literary interest to readers of all backgrounds.
History
The award was first established by the Association of Jewish Libraries in 1968.[1] It was the first of the identity-based awards as a result of Nancy Larrick's 1965 piece The All-White World of Children's Books, establishing new precedent wherein literary excellence is paired with authentic and well-crafted representation of a particular identity, culture, and experience.[2][3] Originally, it was known as the Shirley Kravitz Children's Book Award and was later renamed in honor of Sydney Taylor in 1978.[4] The award initially recognized books for older children, but in 1981, the award committee started to recognize books for younger readers and in 2007, began to recognize young adult literature.[5] In 1988, Honor Award Winners were added and these books receive a silver seal.[5] The current president is Rebecca Levitan.
About
Awards are presented in three categories: Younger Readers, Older Readers and Teen Readers. In each category, a single gold medalist is named annually. Each year there may also be several silver medalists named in each category. A list of ten to twenty Notable Children's Books of Jewish Content is also named in each category, but these titles do not receive medals.
The award committee is made up of volunteers from the Association of Jewish Libraries.[5] Books are evaluated based on certain criteria one of which is literary merit.[6] Books must also be appropriate to the age level, rooted in "authentic and accurate detail" and have a positive and/or authentic Jewish religious or cultural content.[6] Books nominated are newly published books for the year.[7] Books can be picture books, non-fiction, fiction and poetry.[8]
Criteria
- The book has literary merit.
- The book has positive and authentic Jewish religious or cultural content.
- The book is appropriate for the intended grade level in style, vocabulary, format, and illustration.
- Whether fiction or nonfiction, the book is solidly rooted in authentic and accurate detail through scholarship and research by the author.
- Particular attention will be paid to titles that demonstrate the broad diversity of the Jewish experience, including diversity of time period and country of origin.
- Textbooks, liturgy, and reprints are not eligible. Significantly revised editions and re-illustrated editions are eligible.
- Books must be commercially available for purchase in order to be eligible.
- Self-published books are not eligible. The author and illustrator must not have paid any money to the publisher. The book must be edited by a professional editor at no cost to the author/illustrator. The publisher must publish books by multiple authors.
- Books must be published in English (whether originally in English or in translation)
- If the same book is published in English in multiple countries, the first version submitted will be considered for the award. Other versions then become ineligible.[9]
Themes
Most Sydney Taylor Book Award winning titles are universal in theme while Judaic in specific content, highlighting the rich diversity of Jewish lives and experiences, traditions, and values to Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. [10]
Children's Book Award Recipients
| Year | Category | Author | Illustrator | Book | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Picture Book | Chana Stiefel | Susan Gal | The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs | Winner |
| Middle Grade | Mari Lowe | Aviva vs. the Dybbuk | Winner | ||
| Young Adult | Sacha Lamb | When the Angels Left the Old Country | Winner | ||
| 2022 | Picture Book | Susan Kusel | Sean Rubin | The Passover Guest (A retelling of the classic I.L. Peretz shtetl story “The Magician” | Winner |
| Peter Sís | Peter Sís | Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued | Honor | ||
| Nancy Churnin | Bethany Stancliffe | Dear Mr. Dickens | Honor | ||
| Jeff Gottesfeld | Michelle Laurentia Agatha | The Christmas Mitzvah | Honor | ||
| Nancy Churnin | Yevgenia Nayberg | A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah | Notable | ||
| Cynthia Levinson | Evan Turk | The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art | Notable | ||
| Lee Wind | Paul O. Zelinsky | Red and Green and Blue and White | Notable | ||
| Middle Grade | Veera Hiranandani | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | Winner | ||
| Eugene Yelchin | Eugene Yelchin | The Genius Under the Table: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain | Honor | ||
| Gordon Korman | Linked | Honor | |||
| Chris Baron | The Magical Imperfect | Notable | |||
| Joanne Levy | Sorry For Your Loss | Notable | |||
| Allison Marks and Wayne Marks | Benny Feldman's All-Star Klezmer Band | Notable | |||
| Young Adult | Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | Winner | ||
| Leah Scheier | The Last Words We Said | Honor | |||
| E. Lockhart | Manuel Preitano | Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero | Honor | ||
| Hannah Reynolds | The Summer of Lost Letters | Honor | |||
| Judy Batalion | The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Young Readers’ Edition) | Notable | |||
| Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal | Why We Fly | Notable | |||
| Judith Pransky | The Seventh Handmaiden | Notable | |||
| Robbie Waisman and Susan McClelland | Boy From Buchenwald | Notable | |||
| 2021[12] | Picture Book | Lesléa Newman | Susan Gal | Welcoming Elijah: a Passover Tale with a Tail | Winner |
| Mychal Copeland | André Ceolin | I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book | Honor | ||
| Jane Yolen | Khoa Le | Miriam at the River | Honor | ||
| Leslie Kimmelman | Galia Bernstein | The Eight Knights of Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Linda Elovitz Marshall | Lisa Anchin | The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine | Notable | ||
| Erica S. Perl | Shahar Kober | The Ninth Night of Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Middle Grade | M. Evan Wolkenstein | Turtle Boy | Winner | ||
| Anne Blankman | The Blackbird Girls | Honor | |||
| Tziporah Cohen | No Vacancy | Honor | |||
| Sofiya Pasternack | Anya and the Nightingale | Honor | |||
| Tammar Stein | Beni's War | Notable | |||
| Deborah Hopkinson | We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport | Notable | |||
| Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan | A Place at the Table | Notable | |||
| Ruth Behar | Letters from Cuba | Notable | |||
| Young Adult | Tyler Feder | Tyler Feder | Dancing at the Pity Party | Winner | |
| Monica Hesse | They Went Left | Honor | |||
| Rachel Lynn Solomon | Today Tonight Tomorrow | Notable | |||
| Adam Eli | The New Queer Conscience | Notable | |||
| Gavriel Savit | The Way Back | Notable | |||
| Liza Wiemer | The Assignment | Notable | |||
| 2020 | Picture Book | Sue Macy | Stacy Innerst | The Book Rescuer | Winner |
| Lesléa Newman | Amy June Bates | Gittel's Journey | Honor | ||
| Debbie Levy | Sonja Wimmer | The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music | Honor | ||
| Deborah Blumenthal | Masha D’yans | Parrots, Pugs and Pixie Dust: A Book about Fashion Designer Judith Leiber | Notable | ||
| Ann Malaspina | Merrilee Liddiard | A Scarf for Keiko | Notable | ||
| Mara Rockliff | Zosia Dzierzawska | Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope | Notable | ||
| Middle Grade | R. J. Palacio | R. J. Palacio | White Bird: A Wonder Story | Winner | |
| Sofiya Pasternack | Anya and the Dragon | Honor | |||
| 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 | |||
| Kathy Kacer | Masters of Silence | Notable | |||
| Edeet Ravel | A Boy is Not a Bird | Notable | |||
| Ferida Wolff | Margeaux Lucas | Rachel's Roses | Notable | ||
| Young Adult | Rachel DeWoskin | Someday We Will Fly | Winner | ||
| Victoria Ortiz | Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work | Honor | |||
| Hannah Moskowitz | Sick Kids in Love | Honor | |||
| Susan Kaplan Carlton | In the Neighborhood of True | Notable | |||
| Albert Marrin | A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust | Notable | |||
| 2019 [13] | Younger Reader | Emily Jenkins | Paul O. Zelinsky | All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah | Winner |
| Barb Rosenstock | Mary GrandPré | Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall's Life | Honor | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Mehrdokht Amini | A Moon for Moe and Mo | Honor | ||
| Nancy Churnin | James Rey Sanchez | Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing | Notable | ||
| Leslie Kimmelman | David C. Gardner | Write On, Irving Berlin! | Notable | ||
| Gloria Spielman | Inbal Gigi Bousidan | French Toast Sundays | Notable | ||
| Evelyn Zusman | Kyrsten Brooker | The Passover Parrot | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Jonathan Auxier | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Winner | ||
| Erica Perl | All Three Stooges | Honor | |||
| Elissa Brent Weissman | The Length of a String | Honor | |||
| Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman | David Polonsky | Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | Notable | ||
| Lisa Greenwald | 12 Before 13 | Notable | |||
| Jacqueline Jules | Kristina Swarner | Light the Menorah: A Hanukkah Handbook | Notable | ||
| Young Adult | Vesper Stamper | What the Night Sings | Winner | ||
| Rachel Lynn Solomon | You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone | Honor | |||
| Jennifer Nielsen | Resistance | Notable | |||
| 2018 | Younger Reader | Richard Michelson | Karla Gudeon | The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew | Winner |
| Fawzia Gilani-Williams | Chiara Fedele | Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam | Honor | ||
| Jacqueline Jules | Yevgenia Nayberg | Drop by Drop: A Story of Rabbi Akiva | Honor | ||
| David A. Adler | Andre Ceolin | Yom Kippur Shortstop | Notable | ||
| Michael Herman | Alida Massari | Under the Sabbath Lamp | Notable | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Jim Starr | Big Sam: A Rosh Hashanah Tall Tale | Notable | ||
| Joanne Oppenheim | Jon Davis | The Knish War on Rivington Street | Notable | ||
| Jonah Winter | Stacy Innerst | Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Alan Gratz | Refugee | Winner | ||
| Susan Krawitz | Viva Rose! | Honor | |||
| Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang | This is Just a Test | Honor | |||
| Tammar Stein | The Six Day Hero | Honor | |||
| Michelle Bisson | El Primo Ramón | Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust | Notable | ||
| 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 | |||
| Sydelle Pearl | Wordwings | Notable | |||
| R. M. Romero | The Dollmaker of Krakow | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Antonio Iturbe | The Librarian of Auschwitz | Winner | ||
| Kathy Kacer with Jordana Lebowitz | To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial | Honor | |||
| Marianne Kaurin | Almost Autumn | Honor | |||
| Katherine Locke | The Girl With the Red Balloon | Honor | |||
| Viktor E. Frankl | Man's Search for Meaning: Young Reader Edition | Notable | |||
| Pamela L. Laskin | Ronit & Jamil | Notable | |||
| L. B. Schulman | Stolen Secrets | Notable | |||
| 2017 | Younger Reader | Debbie Levy | Elizabeth Baddeley | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Winner |
| Michelle Edwards | G. Brian Karas | A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and Love | Honor | ||
| Richard Michelson | Edel Rodriguez | Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy | Honor | ||
| Barbara Bietz | John Kanzler | The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern Shabbat | Notable | ||
| Linda Glaser | Nuria Balaguer | On One Foot | Notable | ||
| Jeff Gottesfeld | Peter McCarty | The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window | Notable | ||
| Eric Kimmel | Maria Surducan | Gabriel's Horn | Notable | ||
| Pamela Mayer | Deborah Melmon | Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup | Notable | ||
| Jessica Steinberg | Amanda Pike | Not This Turkey! | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Adam Gidwitz | Hatem Aly | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Winner | |
| Joel Izzy | Driedels on the Brain | Honor | |||
| 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 | ||
| Rona Arato | The Ship to Nowhere: On Board the Exodus | Notable | |||
| Tilar J. Mazzeo, adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell | Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition: A True Story of Courage | Notable | |||
| Yona Zeldis McDonough | The Bicycle Spy | Notable | |||
| Susan Lynn Meyer | Skating with the Statue of Liberty | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Gavriel Savit | Anna and the Swallow Man | Winner | ||
| 2016 | Younger Reader | Lesléa Newman | Amy June Bates | Ketzel, the Cat who Composed | Winner |
| Heidi Smith Hyde | Jing Jing Tsong | Shanghai Sukkah | Honor | ||
| Leslie Kimmelman | Talitha Shipman | Everybody Says Shalom | Honor | ||
| David A. Adler | Jeffrey Ebbeler | Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles | Notable | ||
| Jamie Korngold | Julie Fortenberry | Sadie and Ori and the Blue Blanket | Notable | ||
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | Suzanne Raphael Berkson | The Parakeet Named Dreidel | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Aharon Appelfeld | Philippe Dumas | Adam and Thomas | Winner | |
| Barry Deutsch | Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish | Honor | ||
| Angela Cerrito | The Safest Lie | Notable | |||
| Irene Cohen-Janka | Maurizio A. C. Quarello | Mr. Doctor: Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | ||
| Cynthia Levinson | Watch Out for Flying Kids: How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community | Notable | |||
| J. Patrick Lewis | Yevgenia Nayberg | The Wren and the Sparrow | Notable | ||
| Rob Sharenow | The Girl in the Torch | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Laura Amy Schlitz | The Hired Girl | Winner | ||
| Kathy Kacer | Stones on a Grave | Honor | |||
| Suzanne Nelson | Serendipity's Footsteps | Honor | |||
| Emily Franklin | Last Night at the Circle Cinema | Notable | |||
| Deborah Hopkinson | Courage and Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | Notable | |||
| Carol Solomon | Imagining Katherine | Notable | |||
| Annika Thor | Deep Sea | Notable | |||
| 2015 | Younger Reader | Jim Aylesworth | Barbara McClintock | My Grandfather's Coat | Winner |
| Barbara Krasner | Kelsey Garrity-Rile | Goldie Takes a Stand | Honor | ||
| Jacqueline Jules | Durga Yael Bernhard | Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Loïc Dauvillier | Marc Lizano and Greg Salsedo (colors) | Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust | Winner | |
| Donna Gephart | Death by Toilet Paper | Honor | |||
| Jennifer Elvgren | Fabio Santomauro | Whispering Town | Honor | ||
| Teen Reader | Donna Jo Napoli | Storm | Winner | ||
| Lila Perl | Isabel's War | Honor | |||
| Una LaMarche | Like No Other | Honor | |||
| 2014 | Younger Reader | Laurel Snyder | Catia Chen | The Longest Night | Winner |
| Betty Rosenberg Perlov | Cosei Kawa | Rifka Takes a Bow | Honor | ||
| Renee Londner | Martha Avilés | Stones for Grandpa | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Blessing Cup | Winner | |
| 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 | |||
| Carol Matas | Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948 | Honor | |||
| Teen Reader | Neal Bascomb | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi | Winner | ||
| Robyn Bavati | Dancing in the Dark | Honor | |||
| Aline Sax, translated by Laura Watkinson | Caryl Strzelecki | The War Within These Walls | Honor | ||
| 2013 | Younger Reader | Linda Glaser | Adam Gustavson | Hannah's Way | Winner |
| Sheri Sinykin | Kristina Swarner | Zayde Comes to Live | Honor | ||
| Linda Leopold Strauss | Alexi Natchev | The Elijah Door: A Passover Tale | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Louise Borden | His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg | Winner | ||
| Ann Redisch Stampler | Carol Liddiment | The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from Afghanistan | Honor | ||
| Teen Reader | Deborah Heiligman | Intentions | Winner | ||
| Doreen Rappaport | Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust | Honor | |||
| 2012 | Younger Reader | Michael J. Rosen | Robert Sabuda | Chanukah Lights | Winner |
| Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Holly Meade | Naamah and the Ark at Night | Honor | ||
| Durga Yael Bernhard | Durga Yael Bernhard | Around the World in One Shabbat | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Susan Goldman Rubin | Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | Winner | ||
| Trina Robbins | Anne Timmons and Mo Oh | Lily Renee, Escape Artist: from Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer | Honor | ||
| Shelley Sommer | Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer | Honor | |||
| Marcia Vaughan | Ron Mazellan | Irena's Jars of Secrets | Honor | ||
| Teen Reader | Robert Sharenow | The Berlin Boxing Club | Winner | ||
| Morris Gleitzman | Then | Honor | |||
| Shirley Reva Vernick | The Blood Lie | Honor | |||
| 2011 | Younger Reader | Howard Schwartz | Kristina Swarner | Gathering Sparks | Winner |
| Sarah Gershman | Kristina Swarner | Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book | Honor | ||
| Linda Glaser | Claire A. Nivola | Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | Honor | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Jaime Zollars | Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | Winner | ||
| Carla Jablonski | Leland Purvis | Resistance | Honor | ||
| Evelyn Krieger | One Is Not a Lonely Number | Honor | |||
| Susan Lynn Meyer | Black Radishes | Honor | |||
| Teen Reader | Dana Reinhardt | The Things a Brother Knows | Winner | ||
| Eishes Chayil | Hush | Honor | |||
| Morris Gleitzman | Once | Honor | |||
| Sarah Darer Littman | Life, After | Honor | |||
| 2010 | Younger Reader | April Halprin Wayland | Stéphane Jorisch | New Year at the Pier | Winner |
| Deborah Bodin Cohen | Jago | Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story | Honor | ||
| Jacqueline Jules | Natascia Ugliano | Benjamin and the Silver Goblet | Honor | ||
| Elka Weber | Adam Gustavson | Yankee at the Seder | Honor | ||
| Jonah Winter | André Carrilho | You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax? | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Robin Friedman | The Importance of Wings | Winner | ||
| 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 | |||
| Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenck | A Faraway Island | Honor | |||
| Teen Reader | Margarita Engle | Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba | Winner | ||
| Jacqueline Davies | Lost | Honor | |||
| Selma Kritzer Silverberg | Naomi's Song | Honor | |||
| 2009 | Younger Reader | Richard Michelson | Raúl Colón | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom | Winner |
| Deborah Bodin Cohen | Shahar Kober | Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride | Honor | ||
| Jacqueline Jules | Natascia Ugliano | Sarah Laughs | Honor | ||
| Richard Michelson | Ron Mazellan | A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet | Honor | ||
| Jane Yolen | Jim Burke | Naming Liberty | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Karen Hesse | Brooklyn Bridge | Winner | ||
| Aranka Siegal | Memories of Babi | Honor | |||
| Teen Reader | Valérie Zenatti | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Winner | ||
| Anna Levine | Freefall | Honor | |||
| 2008 | Younger Reader | Sarah Gershman | Kristina Swarner | The Bedtime Sh’ma | Winner |
| Linda Heller | Boris Kulikov | The Castle on Hester Street | Honor | ||
| Sarah Marwil Lamstein | Neil Waldman | Letter on the Wind: A Chanukah Tale | Honor | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Light | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Sid Fleischman | The Entertainer and the Dybbuk | Winner | ||
| Angela Gluck Wood and Dan Stone. | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | Honor | |||
| Peter Lane Taylor and Christos Nicola | The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story | Honor | |||
| Teen Reader | Sonia Levitin | Strange Relations | Winner | ||
| Mirjam Pressler, translated by Erik J. Macki | Let Sleeping Dogs Lie | Honor | |||
| 2007 | Younger Reader | Stephen Krensky | Greg Harlin | Hanukkah at Valley Forge | Winner |
| Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac | Honor | ||
| Bimba Landmann | Bimba Landmann | I Am Marc Chagall | Honor | ||
| Ann Redisch Stampler | Jacqueline M. Cohen | Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost | Honor | ||
| Brynn Olenberg Sugarman | Michelle Shapiro | Rebecca's Journey Home | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Brenda Ferber | Julia's Kitchen | Winner | ||
| Esme Raji Codell | Vive La Paris | Honor | |||
| Sheldon Oberman | Solomon and the Ant and Other Jewish Folktales | Honor | |||
| Jennifer Roy | Yellow Star | Honor | |||
| Linda Press Wulf | The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story | Honor | |||
| Teen Reader | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Winner | ||
| Alice Hoffman | Incantation | Honor | |||
| Dana Reinhardt | A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life | Honor | |||
| 2006 | Younger Reader | Erica Silverman | Mordicai Gerstein | Sholom Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer | Winner |
| Louise Borden | Allan Drummond | The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey | Honor | ||
| Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Ruth and Naomi: A Bible Story | Honor | ||
| Anna Olswanger | Paula Goodman Koz | Shlemiel Crooks | Honor | ||
| Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda Told Me | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Sarah Darer Littman | Confessions of a Closet Catholic | Winner | ||
| Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and Bernice Steinhardt | Memories of Survival | Honor | |||
| Donna Jo Napoli | The King of Mulberry Street | Honor | |||
| Holly-Jane Rahlens | Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me | Honor | |||
| Uri Shulevitz | Uri Shulevitz | The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century | Honor | ||
| 2005 | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | ||||
| 2004 | Younger Reader | Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Daniel in the Lions’ Den | Honor |
| Leone Adelson | Naomi Howland | The Mystery Bear: A Purim Story | Notable | ||
| Michelle Edwards | Stacey Schuett | Papa's Latkes | Notable | ||
| Linda Glaser | Nancy Cote | Mrs. Greenberg's Messy Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Lawrence A. Hoffman and Ron Wolfson | Bill Aron | What You Will See Inside a Synagogue | Notable | ||
| Jenny Koralek | Pauline Baynes | The Coat of Many Colors | Notable | ||
| Latifa Berry Kropf | Tod Cohen | It's Sukkah Time! | Notable | ||
| Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | David and Goliath | Notable | ||
| Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Jonah and the Whale (and the Worm) | Notable | ||
| Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Miriam and Her Brother Moses | Notable | ||
| Rahel Musleah | Judy Jarrett | Apples and Pomegranates: A Family Seder for Rosh Hashanah | Notable | ||
| Mindy Avra Portnoy | Shelly O. Haas | Where Do People Go When They Die? | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Pnina Moed Kass | Real Time | Winner | ||
| David Chotjewitz, translated by Doris Orgel | Daniel, Half-Human | Honor | |||
| Anne Dublin | Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything | Honor | |||
| Karen Hesse | Wendy Watson | The Cats in Krasinski Square | Honor | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion | Honor | |||
| Sylvie Weil, translated by Gillian Rosner | My Guardian Angel | Honor | |||
| David A. Adler | The Kids' Catalog of Hanukkah | Notable | |||
| Hagit Allon and Lena Zehavi | Yossi Abulafia | The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls | Notable | ||
| Bruce Feiler | Sasha Meret | Walking the Bible: An Illustrated Journey for Kids | Notable | ||
| Susan Goldman Rubin | L'Chaim: to Jewish life in America | Notable | |||
| Margaret J. Goldstein | Israel in Pictures | Notable | |||
| David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg | Duel | Notable | |||
| Tony Johnston | Ron Mazellan | The Harmonica | Notable | ||
| Kathy Kacer | The Underground Reporters | Notable | |||
| Kathy Walden Kaplan | The Dog of Knots | Notable | |||
| Gail Langer Karwoski | Robert Papp | Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906 | Notable | ||
| Carol Matas | Rosie in Los Angeles: Action! | Notable | |||
| Sharon E. McKay | Esther | Notable | |||
| Stephanie McPherson | Albert Einstein | Notable | |||
| Moshe Moscowitz | David Sokoloff | The Queen of Persia | Notable | ||
| M.E. Rabb | Missing Persons: The Chocolate Lover | Notable | |||
| Peter W. Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand | Six Million Paper Clips | Notable | |||
| Josepha Sherman | Your Travel Guide to Ancient Israel | Notable | |||
| Barbara Sofer | Ilan Ramon: Israel's Space Hero | Notable | |||
| Devra Newberger Speregen | Ilan Ramon: Jewish Star | Notable | |||
| Judy Steinberg and Barbara Tabs | Bill Hauser | Matzah Meals: A Passover Cookbook for Kids (revised edition) | Notable | ||
| 2003 | Younger Reader | Aubrey Davis | Dušan Petričić | Bagels from Benny | Winner |
| Jenny Koralek | Pauline Baynes | The Moses Basket | Honor | ||
| Burt E. Schuman | Rosalind Charney Kaye | Chanukah on the Prairie | Honor | ||
| Erica Silverman | Matthew Trueman | When the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh Hashanah Tale | Honor | ||
| Julie Baer | Julie Baer | I Only Like What I Like | Honor | ||
| Esther Silverstein Blanc and Godeane Eagle | Tennessee Dixon | Long Johns for a Small Chicken | Honor | ||
| Margie Blumberg | Laurie McGaw | Avram's Gift | Honor | ||
| Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | A Sweet Year: A Taste of the Jewish Holidays | Honor | ||
| Dina Rosenfeld | Tova Leff | Five Alive! My Yom Tov Five Senses | Honor | ||
| Sylvia Rouss | Nancy Oppenheimer | Tali's Jerusalem Scrapbook | Honor | ||
| Pete Seeger | Wendy Anderson Halperin | Turn, Turn, Turn | Honor | ||
| Emily Sper | Emily Sper | The Passover Seder | Honor | ||
| Stephanie Spinner | Jill McElmurry | It's a Miracle! A Hanukkah Storybook | Honor | ||
| Ann Redisch Stampler | Jacqueline M. Cohen | Something for Nothing | Honor | ||
| Richard Ungar | Richard Ungar | Rachel's Gift | Honor | ||
| Older Reader | Nancy Patz | Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? | Winner | ||
| Marian Broida | Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide | Honor | |||
| Edward Feinstein | Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish Life | Honor | |||
| Tracy Mack | Birdland | Honor | |||
| Anna Claybourne | Golda Meir | Notable | |||
| Adèle Geras | Anita Lobel | My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folktales | Notable | ||
| Karen Hesse | Brian Pinkney | The Stone Lamp: Eight Stories of Hanukkah through History | Notable | ||
| Deborah Hopkinson | Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York | Notable | |||
| Sonia Levitin | Room in the Heart | Notable | |||
| Carol Matas | Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! | Notable | |||
| Gloria D. Miklowitz | The Enemy Has a Face | Notable | |||
| Or Rose | Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man of Spirit, Man of Action | Notable | |||
| Liz Sonneborn | Murder at the 1972 Olympics in Munich | Notable | |||
| Jerry Spinelli | Milkweed | Notable | |||
| Tanya Stone | Ilan Ramon: Israel's First Astronaut | Notable | |||
| Luba Tryszynska-Frederick, as told to Michelle McCann | Ann Marshall | Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen | Notable | ||
| Jude Welton | Marc Chagall | Notable | |||
| 2002 | Younger Reader | Esther Hershenhorn | Roseanne Litzinger | Chicken Soup by Heart | Winner |
| Jerry Pinkney | Jerry Pinkney | Noah's Ark | Honor | ||
| Sylvia Rouss | Katherine Janus Kahn | Sammy Spider's First Trip to Israel: A Book about the Five Senses | Honor | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Pearl's Passover: A Family Celebration through Stories, Recipes, Crafts, And Songs | Honor | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Laura Sucher | Night Lights: A Sukkot Story | Notable | ||
| Rhonda Gowler Greene | Anne Wilson | The Beautiful World That God Made | Notable | ||
| Naomi Howland | Naomi Howland | Matzah Man | Notable | ||
| Latifa Berry Kropf | Tod Rosen | It's Challah Time! | Notable | ||
| Karla Kuskin | Michael Grejniec | The Animals and the Ark | Notable | ||
| Lesléa Newman | Krysten Brooker | Runaway Dreidel | Notable | ||
| Tony Kushner | Maurice Sendak | Brundibar | Notable | ||
| Rochel Groner Vorst | Elizabeth Victor-Elsby | The Sukkah That I Built | Notable | ||
| Anne Wilson | Anne Wilson | Noah's Ark | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Karen Levine | Hana's Suitcase | Winner | ||
| Eve Bunting | K. Wendy Popp | One Candle | Honor | ||
| Esther Hautzig | Beth Peck | A Picture of Grandmother | Honor | ||
| Barbara Rogasky | Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust, Revised and Expanded | Honor | |||
| Chaya Burstein | The Kids' Cartoon Bible | Notable | |||
| Miriam Chaikin | Stephen Fieser | Alexandra's Scroll: The Story of the First Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Alexander Koshkin | Angels Sweep the Desert Floor: Bible Legends about Moses in the Wilderness | Notable | ||
| Andrea Cheng | Marika | Notable | |||
| Ilene Cooper | Elivia Savadier | Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury | Notable | ||
| Norman H. Finkelstein | Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience | Notable | |||
| Marc Gellman | Harry Bliss | And God Cried, Too: A Kid's Book About Healing and Hope | Notable | ||
| James C. Giblin | The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler | Notable | |||
| Clive A. Lawton | Auschwitz: The Story of a Nazi Death Camp | Notable | |||
| Carol Ann Lee | Anne Frank's Story: Her Life Retold for Children | Notable | |||
| Barbara Rogasky | Smoke | Notable | |||
| Carol Matas | Sparks Fly Upward | Notable | |||
| Richard Michelson | Neil Waldman | Too Young for Yiddish | Notable | ||
| Kenneth Roseman | Jeremiah's Promise: An Adventure in Modern Israel | Notable | |||
| Howard Schwartz | Stephen Fieser | Invisible Kingdoms: Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits, and Demons | Notable | ||
| Eva Vogiel | Facing the Music | Notable | |||
| Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Promised Land: The Birth of the Jewish People | Notable | ||
| Irene N. Watts | Finding Sophie: A Search for Belonging in Postwar Britain | Notable | |||
| 2001 | Younger Reader | Elsa Okon Rael | Maryann Kovalski | Rivka's First Thanksgiving | Winner |
| Sue Alexander | Leonid Gore | Behold the Trees | Notable | ||
| Matt Biers-Ariel | Esti Silverberg-Kiss | Solomon and the Trees | Notable | ||
| Mira Pollak Brichto | Selina Alko | The God around Us, Volume 2: The Valley of Blessings | Notable | ||
| Chaya Burstein | Judy Hanks-Henn | Hanukkah Cat (Revised Edition) | Notable | ||
| Deborah da Costa | Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu | Snow in Jerusalem | Notable | ||
| Renate Dollinger | Renate Dollinger | The Rabbi Who Flew | Notable | ||
| Cathy Goldman Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Shabbat | Notable | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Anik McGrory | A Mountain of Blintzes | Notable | ||
| Amy Hest | Claire Nivola | The Friday Nights of Nana | Notable | ||
| Jacqueline Jules | Katherine Janus Kahn | The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story | Notable | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Jon Goodell | Zigazak! A Magical Hanukkah Night | Notable | ||
| Sandy Sasso | Joani Keller Rothenberg | Cain and Abel: Finding the Fruits of Peace | Notable | ||
| Lesley Simpson | Nicole in den Bosch | The Shabbat Box | Notable | ||
| Myron Uhlberg | Sonja Lamut | Lemuel, the Fool | Notable | ||
| Richard Ungar | Rachel Captures the Moon | Notable | |||
| Older Reader | Catherine Reef | Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind | Winner | ||
| Martha Attema | Daughter of Light | Notable | |||
| Toby Axelrod | Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose | Notable | |||
| Harriet Feder | Death on Sacred Ground | Notable | |||
| Kathy Kacer | Clara's War | Notable | |||
| Teri Kanefield | Rivka's Way | Notable | |||
| Mark Kornblatt | Understanding Buddy | Notable | |||
| Amy Koss | Stolen Words | Notable | |||
| Fran Manushkin | Uri Shulevitz | Daughter of Fire: Heroines of the Bible | Notable | ||
| Carol Matas | The War Within | Notable | |||
| Gloria Miklowitz | Secrets in the House of Delgado | Notable | |||
| Connie Steiner | Denis Rodier | Shoes for Amelie | Notable | ||
| Eva Vogiel | Friend of Foe? | Notable | |||
| Andrea Warren | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Notable | |||
| Ilse Weber, translated by Ruth and Hans Fisher | Mendel Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish Children | Notable | |||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Donna Diamond | The Magic Menorah: A Modern Chanukah Tale | Notable | ||
| Teen Reader | Howard Greenfield | After the Holocaust | Notable | ||
| Gary D. Schmidt | Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Dark | Notable | |||
| 2000 | Younger Reader | Eric A. Kimmel | Jon J. Muth | Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year | Winner |
| Cary Fagan | Regolo Ricci | The Market Wedding | Honor | ||
| Sheldon Oberman | Neil Waldman | The Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomon and Sheba | Honor | ||
| Linda Jacobs Altman | Conrelius Van Wright and Ting-Hwa Hu | The Legend of Freedom Hill | Notable | ||
| Cathy Goldman Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Purim | Notable | ||
| Leslie Kimmelman | Ora Eitan | Dance, Sing, Remember | Notable | ||
| Fran Manushkin | Rosalind Charney Kaye | Come, Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava Nagila | Notable | ||
| Laura Kraus Melmed | David Slonim | Moishe's Miracle | Notable | ||
| Leah Shollar | Shoshana Mekibel | Thread of Kindness: A Tzedaka Story | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Ida Vos | The Key Is Lost | Winner | ||
| Amy Hest | Sonja Lamut | Love You, Soldier | Honor | ||
| Susan Goldman Rubin | Neil Waldman | Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin | Honor | ||
| Gabriella Carmi, translated by Yael Lotan | Samir and Yonatan | Notable | |||
| Carmen Agra Deedy | Henry Sorensen | The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark | Notable | ||
| Arlene B. Hirschfelder | Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalho's Remarkable Western Adventure, 1853-1854 | Notable | |||
| Ann Isaacs | Torn Thread | Notable | |||
| Nina Jaffe | Kelly Stribling Sutherland | Tales for the Seventh Day | Notable | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Mordicai Gerstein | The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm | Notable | ||
| Julius Lester | Pharaoh's Daughter | Notable | |||
| Ellen Levine | Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | Notable | |||
| Marissa Moss | Marissa Moss | Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl | Notable | ||
| Rahel Musleah | Louise August | Why on This Night? A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration | Notable | ||
| Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Butterfly | Notable | ||
| Rosalind Schanzer | Escaping to America: A True Story | Notable | |||
| Howard Schwartz | Monique Passicot | The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic | Notable | ||
| Frank Dabba Smith | Mendel Grossman | My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto | Notable | ||
| Marilyn Taylor | Faraway Home | Notable | |||
| Eva Vogiel | Invisible Chains | Notable | |||
| Irene Watts | Remember Me: A Search for Refuge in Wartime Britain | Notable | |||
| 1999 | Younger Reader | Maxine Rose Schur | Kimberley Bulcken Root | The Peddler's Gift | Winner |
| Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Noah and the Great Flood | Honor | ||
| Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Honor | ||
| Susan Wilkowski | Judith Friedman | Baby's Bris | Honor | ||
| Joel Anderson | Abe Goolsby | David and the Trash-Talkin' Giant: Mr. Grungy's Seek and Find Bible Stories | Notable | ||
| Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Queen Esther, the Morning Star | Notable | ||
| Charlotte Herman | Katya Krenina | How Yussel Caught the Gefilte Fish: A Shabbos Story | Notable | ||
| Ziporah Hildebrandt | Robin Roraback | This Is Our Seder | Notable | ||
| Shirley Hughes | Shirley Hughes | The Lion and the Unicorn | Notable | ||
| Miriam Nerlove | Miriam Nerlove | The Ten Commandments for Jewish Children | Notable | ||
| Joanne Rocklin | Catherine O'Neil | The Very Best Hanukkah Gift | Notable | ||
| Joan Rothenberg | Joan Rothenberg | Matzah Ball Soup | Notable | ||
| Sandy E. Sasso | Karyn Kunz Finney | For Heaven's Sake | Notable | ||
| Erica Silverman | Susan Gaber | Raisel's Riddle | Notable | ||
| Rosemary Wells | Dann Adreasen | Streets of Gold | Notable | ||
| Elie Wiesel | Mark Podwal | King Solomon and His Magic Ring | Notable | ||
| Elvira Woodruff | Michael Dooling | The Memory Coat | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Sybil Rosen | The Speed of Light | Winner | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Jerry Pinkney | Journeys with Elijah | Honor | ||
| Julius Lester | Emily Lisker | When The Beginning Began: Stories About God, the Creatures and Us | Honor | ||
| Vera Propp | When the Soldiers Were Gone | Honor | |||
| Sandy Asher, editor | With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing Up Jewish | Notable | |||
| Miriam Bat Ami | Two Suns in the Sky | Notable | |||
| Livia Bitton-Jackson | My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love after Auschwitz | Notable | |||
| Sandra Giddens | Escape: Teens Who Escaped the Holocaust to Freedom | Notable | |||
| Beatrice Gormley | Miriam | Notable | |||
| Anna Levine | Running on Eggs | Notable | |||
| Sonia Levitin | The Cure | Notable | |||
| Mikki Machlin | My Name Is Not Gussie | Notable | |||
| Gregory Maguire | The Good Liar | Notable | |||
| Carol Matas | In My Enemy's House | Notable | |||
| Lois Metzger | Missing Girls | Notable | |||
| Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush, editors | Michael Iofin | A Coat for the Moon and Other Jewish Tales | Notable | ||
| John Severance | Einstein: Visionary Scientist | Notable | |||
| Marc Talbert | Star of Luís | Notable | |||
| 1998 | Younger Reader | Marci Stillerman | Pesach Gerber | Nine Spoons | Winner |
| Rita Golden Gelman | Frane Lessac | Queen Esther Saves Her People | Honor | ||
| Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-Vavniks | Honor | ||
| Jeffrey Schrier | Jeffrey Schrier | On the Wings of Eagles: An Ethiopian Boy's Story | Honor | ||
| Bruce Siegel | Shelly O. Haas | The Magic of Kol Nidre | Honor | ||
| S. Y. Agnon, translated by Robert Friend | Arieh Zeldich | Agnon's Alef Bet: Poems by S. Y. Agnon | Notable | ||
| Carol Bierman, with Barbara Hehner | Laurie McGaw | Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America | Notable | ||
| Nina Jaffe | Louise August | The Way Meat Loves Salt | Notable | ||
| Heinz Janisch, translated by Rosemary Lanning | Lisbeth Zwerger | Noah's Ark | Notable | ||
| Jacqueline Jules | Katherine Janus Kahn | Once Upon a Shabbos | Notable | ||
| William Kaplan, with Shelley Tanaka | Stephen Taylor | One More Border | Notable | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Barbara McClintock | When Mindy Saved Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Fran Manushkin | Bob Dacey | Miriam's Cup | Notable | ||
| Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | The Menorah Story | Notable | ||
| Joan Betty Stuchner | Richard Row | The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band | Notable | ||
| Nancy Sohn Swartz | Melanie W. Hall | In Our Image: God's First Creatures | Notable | ||
| Edith Tarbescu | Lydia Dabcovich | Annushka's Voyage | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Donna Jo Napoli | Stones in Water | Winner | ||
| Dede Fox Ducharme | The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin | Honor | |||
| Sonia Levitin | The Singing Mountain | Honor | |||
| Anita Lobel | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Honor | |||
| Miriam Chaikin | David Frampton | Clouds of Glory | Notable | ||
| Johanna Hurwitz | Mary Azarian | Faraway Summer | Notable | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Emily Lisker | A Hanukkah Treasury | Notable | ||
| Jane Kurtz | The Storyteller's Beads | Notable | |||
| Kathryn Lasky | Dreams of the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, A Jewish Immigrant Girl | Notable | |||
| Carol Matas | Greater Than Angels | Notable | |||
| Maida Silverman | Susan Avishai | Israel: The Founding of a Modern Nation | Notable | ||
| Neil Waldman | Masada | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Edith Baer | Walk the Dark Streets | Notable | ||
| Leonard Everett Fisher | To Bigotry No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue in America | Notable | |||
| Gloria Miklowitz | Masada: The Last Fortress | Notable | |||
| Schoschana Rabinovici, translated by James Skofield | Thanks to My Mother | Notable | |||
| Kathryn Winter | Katarina | Notable | |||
| 1997 | Younger Reader | Elsa Okon Rael | Marjorie Priceman | When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street | Winner |
| Amy Hest | P.J. Lynch | When Jessie Came Across the Sea | Honor | ||
| Cathy Goldberg Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Passover | Notable | ||
| Cathy Goldberg Fishman | Melanie W. Hall | On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | Notable | ||
| Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Jonah and the Two Great Fish | Notable | ||
| Linda Glaser | Nancy Cote | The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes | Notable | ||
| Amy Hest | P.J. Lynch | When | Notable | ||
| Sue Kassirer | Danuta Jarecka | Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors | Notable | ||
| Sarah Marwil Lamstein | Cecily Lang | Annie's Shabbat | Notable | ||
| Kathryn Lasky | Kevin Hawkes | Marven of the Great North Woods | Notable | ||
| J. Patrick Lewis | Reg Cartwright | The Boat of Many Rooms | Notable | ||
| Claire Nivola | Claire Nivola | Elisabeth | Notable | ||
| Sheldon Oberman | Neil Waldman | By the Hanukkah Light | Notable | ||
| Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | The Angel's Mistake: Stories of Chelm | Notable | ||
| Roni Schotter | Marilyn Hafner | Purim Play | Notable | ||
| Dorrith M. Sim | Gerald Fitzgerald | In My Pocket | Notable | ||
| Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Never-Ending Greenness | Notable | ||
| Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Two Brothers: A Legend of Jerusalem | Notable | ||
| Brian Wildsmith | Brian Wildsmith | Joseph | Notable | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Nina Jaffe | Elivia Savadier | The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah | Winner | |
| Livia Bitton-Jackson | I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust | Honor | |||
| Lee Cha'ah Batterman | James Wattling | Two Cents and a Milk Bottle | Notable | ||
| Ilene Cooper | John Thompson | The Dead Sea Scrolls | Notable | ||
| Kirk Douglas | The Broken Mirror: A Novella | Notable | |||
| Alison Leslie Gold | Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend | Notable | |||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Elaine Greenstein | While the Candles Burn: Eight Stories for Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Gloria Kamen | Hidden Music: The Life of Fanny Mendelssohn | Notable | |||
| Jan Mark | David Parkin | God's Story: How God Made Mankind | Notable | ||
| Carol Matas | The Garden | Notable | |||
| Ken Mochizuki | Dom Lee | Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story | Notable | ||
| Steven Schnur | Meryl Treatner | The Koufax Dilemma | Notable | ||
| Faye Silton | Of Heroes, Hooks, and Heirlooms | Notable | |||
| Eva Wiseman | A Place Not Home | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Norman H. Finkelstein | Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle | Notable | ||
| Maxine Rose Schur | Sacred Shadows | Notable | |||
| 1996 | Younger Reader | Barbara Sofer | Shalom, Haver: Goodbye, Friend | Winner | |
| Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven | Honor | ||
| Howard Bogot | Norman Gorbaty | Becky and Benny Thank God | Notable | ||
| Sterna Citron | Igor Eydel | Hirsh's Secret: A Baal Shem Tov Story | Notable | ||
| Gary Clement | Gary Clement | Just Stay Put | Notable | ||
| Aubrey Davis | Dušan Petričić | Bone Button Borscht | Notable | ||
| Katherine Paterson | Alexander Koshkin | The Angel and the Donkey | Notable | ||
| Sheryl Prenzlau | Zely Smelkhov | The Jewish Children's Bible: Genesis | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Maxine Rose Schur | Brian Pinkney | When I Left My Village | Winner | |
| Diane Wolkstein | Juan Wijngaard | Esther's Story | Honor | ||
| Marc Gellman | Debbie Tilley | God's Mailbox: More Stories about Stories in the Bible | Notable | ||
| Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith | Lawrence Migdale | Celebrating Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Hanneke Ippisch | Sky | Notable | |||
| Sharon Kirsch | Fitting In | Notable | |||
| Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan | Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story | Notable | |||
| Abraham Rabinovich | Teddy Kollek: Builder of Jerusalem | Notable | |||
| Barbara Rogasky | Trina Schart Hyman | The Golem | Notable | ||
| Howard Schwartz and Rush Barbara, editors | Stephen Fieser | The Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales | Notable | ||
| Sheila Segal | Women of Valor: Stories of Great Jewish Women Who Helped Shape the Twentieth Century | Notable | |||
| Ellen Stern | Elie Wiesel: A Voice for Humanity | Notable | |||
| Dvora Waysman | Back of Beyond: A Bar Mitzvah Journey | Notable | |||
| David Wisniewski | David Wisniewski | Golem | Notable | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Unfinished Dreams | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Tricia Andryszewski | The Amazing Life of Moe Berg: Catcher, Scholar, Spy | Notable | ||
| Vivian Grey | Moe Berg: The Spy Behind Home Plate | Notable | |||
| Gerald Hausman | Night Flight | Notable | |||
| Hadley Irwin | Sarah with an H | Notable | |||
| Carol Matas | After the War | Notable | |||
| Carolyn Meyer | Gideon's People | Notable | |||
| Laura E. Williams | Behind the Bedroom Wall | Notable | |||
| 1995 | Younger Reader | Jo Hoestlandt | Johanna Kang | Star of Fear, Star of Hope | Winner |
| Janice Cohn | Bill Farnsworth | The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate | Honor | ||
| David A. Adler | Lloyd Bloom | One Yellow Daffodil | Notable | ||
| Feinberg Miriam | Karen Ostrove | A Yom Kippur Think | Notable | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Louise August | Night Lights: A Sukkot Story | Notable | ||
| Nechama Liss-Levinson | Nechama Liss-Levinson | When a Grandparent Dies | Notable | ||
| Sheila MacGill-Callahan | Stephen T. Johnson | When Solomon Was King | Notable | ||
| Fran Manushkin | Ned Bittinger | The Matzah That Papa Brought Home | Notable | ||
| Fran Manushkin | Jacqueline Chwast | Starlight and Candles | Notable | ||
| Steve Sanfield | Emily Lisker | Strudel, Strudel, Strudel | Notable | ||
| Steven Schnur | Stephen T. Johnson | The Tie Man's Miracle: A Chanukkah Tale | Notable | ||
| Roni Schotter | Marilyn Hafner | Passover Magic | Notable | ||
| Neil Waldman | Neil Waldman | The Golden City: Jerusalem's 3000 Years | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Ida Vos | Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon | Winner | ||
| Carolyn Meyer | Drummers of Jericho | Honor | |||
| David A. Adler | Karen Ritz | Child of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | ||
| Molly Cone | Roy Doty | Listen to the Trees | Notable | ||
| Dean Engel and Florence Freedman | Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with Illustrations | Notable | |||
| Marc Gellman and Thomas Hartman | Joseph A. Smith | How Do You Spell God?: Answers to the Big Questions from Around the World | Notable | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Erika Weihs | Bat Mitzvah | Notable | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Trina Schart Hyman | The Adventures of Hershel of Ostropol | Notable | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Erika Weihs | Bar Mitzvah | Notable | ||
| Stephanie McPherson | Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein | Notable | |||
| Lila Perl | Donna Ruff | Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Life of a Storyteller | Notable | ||
| Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | Golem: A Giant Made of Mud | Notable | ||
| Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell, editors | Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust | Notable | |||
| Deborah Lee Rose | Greg Shed | The Rose Horse | Notable | ||
| Nava Semel, translated by Hillel Halkin | Flying Lessons | Notable | |||
| Devra Speregen | Yoni Netanyahu: Commando at Entebbe | Notable | |||
| Gail B. Stewart | Life in the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | |||
| Xin Xu, with Beverly Friend | Ting Cheng | Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng | Notable | ||
| Jane Yolen | Jean Gralley | And Twelve Chinese Acrobats | Notable | ||
| Teen Reader | Gila Almagor, translated by Hillel Schenker | Under the Domim Tree | Notable | ||
| Elanor Ayer, et al. | Parallel Journeys | Notable | |||
| Lynne Reid Banks | Broken Bridge | Notable | |||
| Hazel Krantz | Look to the Hills | Notable | |||
| Christa Laird | But Can the Phoenix Sing? | Notable | |||
| Isobel V. Morin | Days of Judgment: The World War II War Crimes Trials | Notable | |||
| Lesléa Newman | Fat Chance | Notable | |||
| Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | The Lady with the Hat | Notable | |||
| 1994 | Younger Reader | Sheldon Oberman | Ted Lewin | The Always Prayer Shawl | Winner |
| Maxine Schur | Brian Pinkney | Day of Delight: A Jewish Sabbath in Ethiopia | Honor | ||
| Diana Conway | Shelly O. Haas | Northern Lights: A Hanukkah Story | Notable | ||
| Arthur Geisert | Arthur Geisert | After the Flood | Notable | ||
| Patricia Lakin | Ted Rand | Don't Forget | Notable | ||
| Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Tikvah Means Hope | Notable | ||
| Mindy Avra Portnoy | Katherine Janus Kahn | Matzah Ball | Notable | ||
| Dalia Hardof Renberg, (adapter) | Ruth Heller | King Solomon and the Bee | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Steven Schnur | Herbert Tauss | The Shadow Children | Winner | |
| Jacqueline Dembar Greene | One Foot Ashore | Honor | |||
| Karen Ackerman | Elizabeth Sayles | The Night Crossing | Notable | ||
| David A. Adler | Karen Ritz | Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust | Notable | ||
| Susan D. Bachrach | Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust | Notable | |||
| Lillian Boraks-Nemetz | The Old Brown Suitcase | Notable | |||
| Barbara Cohen | Jan Naimo Jones | Make a Wish Molly | Notable | ||
| Barry Cytron and Phyllis Cytron | Myriam Mendilow, Mother of Jerusalem | Notable | |||
| Malka Drucker | Nancy Patz | The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays | Notable | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Neil Waldman | The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion | Notable | ||
| Jacqueline Jules | Michael Cressy | Grey Striped Shirt: How Grandma and Grandpa Survived the Holocaust | Notable | ||
| Sonia Levitin | Escape from Egypt | Notable | |||
| 1993 | Younger Reader | Nina Jaffe | Elivia Savadier | The Uninvited Guest | Winner |
| Laurie Dolphin | Ben Dolphin | Neve Shalom Wahat Al-Salam: Oasis of Peace | Honor | ||
| David Techner and Judith Techner | Joel Iskowitz | A Candle for Grandpa | Honor | ||
| Miriam Aroner | Shelly O. Haas | The Kingdom of the Singing Birds | Notable | ||
| Aliana Brodmann | Anthony Carnabuci | The Gift | Notable | ||
| Michelle Edwards | Michelle Edwards | Blessed Are You | Notable | ||
| Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | David and Goliath | Notable | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Robert Andrew Parker | The Magician's Visit | Notable | ||
| Carol Snyder | Beth Glick | God Must Like Cookies, Too | Notable | ||
| Tobi Tobias | Nola Langer Malone | Pot Luck | Notable | ||
| Sarah Waldman | Neil Waldman | Light: The First Seven Days | Notable | ||
| Wendy Wax (compiler) | John Speirs | Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Nicki Weiss | Nicki Weiss | Stone Men | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Carol Matas | Sworn Enemies | Winner | ||
| Sharon Linnea | Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death | Honor | |||
| Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin | Jacob's Rescue | Notable | |||
| Sonia Levitin | The Golem and the Dragon Girl | Notable | |||
| Nancy Smiler Levinson | Beth Peck | Sweet Notes, Sour Notes | Notable | ||
| Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | Lydia, Queen of Palestine | Notable | |||
| Danny Siegel | Tell Me a Mitzvah | Notable | |||
| Nelly S. Toll | Behind the Secret Window | Notable | |||
| Rudd Van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven, translated by Tony Langham and Plym Peters | Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary | Notable | |||
| Ida Vos | Anna is Still Here | Notable | |||
| Karen Zeinert | The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Notable | |||
| 1992 | Younger Reader | Phoebe Gilman | Phoebe Gilman | Something from Nothing | Winner |
| Ellie Gellman | Judith Friedman | Jeremy's Dreidel | Honor | ||
| Esther Hautzig | Donna Diamond | Riches | Honor | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Leonard Everett Fisher | The Spotted Pony: A Collection of Hanukkah Stories | Honor | ||
| Richard Rosenblum | Richard Rosenblum | Journey to the Golden Land | Honor | ||
| Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush | Stephen Fieser | The Sabbath Lion: A Jewish Folktale from Algeria | Honor | ||
| Colin T. Eisler | Jerry Pinkney | David's Songs: His Psalms and Their Story | Notable | ||
| Mira Jaffe | Louise August | In the Month of Kislev: A Story of Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Mrs. Katz and Tush | Notable | ||
| Michael J. Rosen | Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson | Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas | Notable | ||
| Sheila F. Segal | Joel Iskowitz | Joshua's Dream | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Karen Hesse | Letters from Rifka | Winner | ||
| Robert Cormier | Tunes for Bears to Dance to | Honor | |||
| Eilís Dillon | Children of Bach | Notable | |||
| Robert Lehrman | The Store That Mama Built | Notable | |||
| Joan Lowery Nixon | Ellis Island: Land of Hope | Notable | |||
| Seymour Rossel | The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945 | Notable | |||
| Phyllis Shalant | Shalom, Geneva Peace | Notable | |||
| 1991 | Younger Reader | Sandy Lanton | Shelly O. Haas | Daddy's Chair | Winner |
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Erika Weihs | Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | Winner | ||
| Sholem Aleichem, selected and translated by Aliza Shevrin | Toby Gowing | Around the Table: Family Stories of Sholom Aleichem | Notable | ||
| Michelle Edwards | Michelle Edwards | A Baker's Portrait | Notable | ||
| Miriam Feinberg | Marlene L. Ruthen | Just Enough Room | Notable | ||
| Arthur A. Levine | James E. Ransome | All the Lights of the Night | Notable | ||
| Shulamith Levey Oppenheim | Joanna Yardley | Appleblossom | Notable | ||
| Gloria Teles Pushker | Judith Hierstein | Toby Belfer Never Had a Christmas Tree | Notable | ||
| Lillian Hammer Ross | Mary Morgan | Buba Leah and Her Paper Children | Notable | ||
| Margaret Wild | Julie Vivas | Let the Celebrations Begin! | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush | Uri Shulevitz | The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World | Winner | |
| Natalie S. Bober | Vera Rosenberry | Marc Chagall, Painter of Dreams | Notable | ||
| Marilyn Kaye | The Atonement of Mindy Wise | Notable | |||
| Michael Marpugo | Waiting for Anya | Notable | |||
| Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | The Man from the Other Side | Notable | |||
| Steve Sanfield | Mikhail Magaril | The Feather Merchants and Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm | Notable | ||
| Ida Vos, translated by Terese Edelstein and Inez Smidt | Hide and Seek | Notable | |||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | The Fortuneteller in 5B | Notable | ||
| 1990 | Younger Reader | Eric A. Kimmel | Giora Carmi | The Chanukah Guest | Winner |
| Harriet Feder | Katherine Janus Kahn | Judah Who Always Said "No." | Honor | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Jeanette Winter | The World's Birthday: A Rosh Hashana Story | Honor | ||
| Phyllis Grode | Shelly O. Haas | Sophie's Name | Notable | ||
| Amy Hest | Amy Schwartz | Fancy Aunt Jess | Notable | ||
| Amy Hest | Deborah Haeffele | The Ring and the Window Seat | Notable | ||
| Fran Manushkin | Robin Spowart | Latkes and Applesauce | Notable | ||
| Ann Morris | Lilly Rivlin | When Will the Fighting Stop?: A Child's View of Jerusalem | Notable | ||
| Lillian Hammer Ross | Deborah Healy | The Little Old Man and His Dreams | Notable | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Happy Passover, Rosie and Leo and Blossom's Sukkah | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Adèle Geras | My Grandmother's Stories | Winner | ||
| Christa Laird | Shadow of the Wall | Honor | |||
| Evelyn Wilde Mayerson | The Cat Who Escaped from Steerage | Honor | |||
| Barbara Barrie | Lone Star | Notable | |||
| Miriam Chaikin | Erika Weihs | Menorahs, Mezuzas, and Other Jewish Symbols | Notable | ||
| Sharlya Gold and Mishael Maswari Caspi | Marjory Wunsch | The Answered Prayer and Other Yemenite Folktales | Notable | ||
| Charlotte Herman | Susan Avishai | The House on Walenska Street | Notable | ||
| Carol Matas | Code Name Kris | Notable | |||
| Eileen Bluestone Sherman | Independence Avenue | Notable | |||
| Yale Strom | A Tree Stands Still: Jewish Youth in Eastern Europe Today | Notable | |||
| Terry Walton Treseder | Lloyd Bloom | Hear O Israel: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | ||
| Fran Weissenberg | The Streets Are Paved with Gold | Notable | |||
| 1989 | Younger Reader | Esther Silverstein Blanc | Tennessee Dixon | Berchick | Winner |
| Nancy Karkowsky | Shelly O. Haas | Grandma's Soup | Honor | ||
| Eric A. Kimmel | Trina Schart Hyman | Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins | Honor | ||
| Richard Rosenbloom | Richard Rosenbloom | The Old Synagogue | Honor | ||
| David A. Adler | Joan Halpern | Malke's Secret Recipe: A Chanukah Story from Chelm | Notable | ||
| Amy Ehrlich | Ori Sherman | The Story of Hanukkah | Notable | ||
| Harriet Feder | Joan Halpern | Not Yet, Elijah | Notable | ||
| Florence Cassen Mayers | ABC: The Alef-Bet Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Notable | |||
| Mindy Avra Portnoy | Shelly O. Haas | Mommy Never Went to Hebrew School | Notable | ||
| Marilyn Singer | Ruth Rosner | Minnie's Yom Kippur Birthday | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Lois Lowry | Number the Stars | Winner | ||
| Ferida Wolff | Pink Slippers, Bat Mitzvah Blues | Honor | |||
| Sonia Levitin | Silver Days | Honor | |||
| Carol Matas | Lisa's War | Honor | |||
| David A. Adler | We Remember the Holocaust | Notable | |||
| Miriam Chaikin | Denise Saldutti | Feathers in the Wind | Notable | ||
| Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | The Wailing Wall | Notable | ||
| Marc Gellman | Oscar de Mejo | Does God Have a Big Toe? | Notable | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Earth to Andrew O. Blechman | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Mark Bernheim | Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz Korczak | Notable | ||
| Norman Finkelstein | The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World | Notable | |||
| Yair Hoffman | The World of the Bible for Young Readers | Notable | |||
| Pamela Melnikoff | Plots and Players | Notable | |||
| Margaret Sacks | Beyond Safe Boundaries | Notable | |||
| Efraim Sevela | We Were Not Like Other People | Notable | |||
| 1988 | Younger Reader | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Keeping Quilt | Winner |
| Yaffa Ganz | Harvey Klineman | From Head to Toe: A Book About You | Honor | ||
| Arthur Geisert | Arthur Geisert | The Ark | Honor | ||
| Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Beni's First Chanukah | Honor | ||
| Steven Bayer and Ilene Bayer | Marlene Lobell Ruthen and Joanne Strauss | Rachel and Mischa | Notable | ||
| Giora Carmi | Giora Carmi | And Shira Imagined | Notable | ||
| Barbara Cohen | Susan Jeanne Cohen | The Donkey's Story: A Bible Story | Notable | ||
| Ellie Gellman | Barbara Gellner | Justin's Hebrew Name | Notable | ||
| Barbara Diamond Goldin | Seymour Chwast | Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Jane Yolen | The Devil's Arithmetic | Winner | ||
| Jacqueline Dembar Greene | Out of Many Waters | Honor | |||
| Gary Provost and Gail Provost | David and Max | Honor | |||
| Chaya Burstein | A Kid's Catalog of Israel | Notable | |||
| Chaya Burstein | The Mystery of the Coins | Notable | |||
| Miriam Chaikin | Richard Egielski | Friends Forever | Notable | ||
| Barry Cytron | Fire! The Library Is Burning}} | Notable | |||
| Miriam Elias | And Then There Were Four | Notable | |||
| Johanna Hurwitz | Vera Rosenberry | Anne Frank: Life in Hiding | Notable | ||
| Teen Reader | Milton Meltzer | Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust | Honor | ||
| David M. Brownstone | The Jewish American Heritage | Notable | |||
| Diane Lefer | Emma Lazarus | Notable | |||
| Barbara Rogasky | Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust | Notable | |||
| Renee Roth-Hano | Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France | Notable | |||
| 1987 | Younger Reader | David A. Adler | Rose Eichenbaum | The Number on My Grandfather's Arm | Winner |
| Judith Caseley | Judith Caseley | Apple Pie and Onions | Notable | ||
| Barbara Cohen | Anatoly Ivanov | Even Higher | Notable | ||
| Roberta Goldshlag Cooks | Susan Martz | Gittel and the Bell | Notable | ||
| Tomie DePaola | Tomie DePaola | Queen Esther | Notable | ||
| Richard Rosenblum | Richard Rosenblum | My Sister's Wedding | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Sonia Levitin | The Return | Winner | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Vera Rosenberry | Esther | Notable | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Charles Mikolaycak | Exodus | Notable | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Denise Saldutti | Yossi Tries to Help God | Notable | ||
| Paul J. Citrin | Lindsey Aitken | Joseph's Wardrobe | Notable | ||
| Barbara Cohen | Diane de Groat | The Christmas Revolution | Notable | ||
| Barbara Cohen | Martin Lemelman | First Fast | Notable | ||
| Karla Kuskin | David Frampton | Jerusalem, Shining Still | Notable | ||
| Steven Schnur | Victor Lazzaro | The Return of Morris Schumsky | Notable | ||
| Madeline Wikler and Judyth Groner | Chari Rudin | Miracle Meals: Eight Nights of Food 'n Fun for Chanukah | Notable | ||
| Teen Reader | Merrill Joah Gerber | Also Known as Sadzia! The Belly Dancer! | Notable | ||
| Malka Drucker | Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: The Father of Modern Hebrew | Notable | |||
| David Gross | A Justice for All the People: Louis D. Brandeis | Notable | |||
| Hazel Krantz | Daughter of My People: Henrietta Szold and Hadassah | Notable | |||
| Lawrence Kushner | Devis Grebu | The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spirituality | Notable | ||
| Ilana Shamir (editor) | The Young Reader's Encyclopedia of Jewish History | Notable | |||
| Pu'ah Shteiner | Forever My Jerusalem | Notable | |||
| 1986 | Younger Reader | Marilyn Hirsh | Devis Grebu | Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath | Winner |
| Warwick Hutton | Warwick Hutton | Moses in the Bulrushes | Notable | ||
| Mindy Avra Portnoy | Steffi Karen Rubin | Ima on the Bima: My Mommy is a Rabbi | Notable | ||
| Pininnah Schramm | Jacqueline Kahane | The Big Sukkah | Notable | ||
| Amy Schwartz | Amy Schwartz | Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Nancy Pitt | Beyond the High White Wall | Winner | ||
| Jacqueline Bacon | Robert L. Wolfe and Diane Wolfe | Cooking the Israeli Way | Notable | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Yossi Abulafia | Aviva's Piano | Notable | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Erika Weihs | Sound the Shofar: The Story and Meaning of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | Notable | ||
| Paul Cowan | Rachel Cowan | A Torah is Written | Notable | ||
| Myra Cohn Livingston (editor) | Lloyd Bloom | Poems for Jewish Holidays | Notable | ||
| Steven Schnur | Victor Lazzaro | The Narrowest Bar Mitzvah | Notable | ||
| Maxine Schnur | Donna Ruff | Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light | Notable | ||
| Barbara Spector | The Great Jewish Quiz Book | Notable | |||
| Teen Reader | Donn Kushner | Uncle Jacob's Ghost Story | Notable | ||
| Marilyn Lager | Eric Lager | Sigmund Freud: Doctor of the Mind | Notable | ||
| Nancy Smiler Levinson | I Lift My Lamp: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty | Notable | |||
| Anne E. Neimark | One Man's Valor: Leo Baeck and the Holocaust | Notable | |||
| Eileen Bluestone Sherman | Monday in Odessa | Notable | |||
| Miriam Stark Zakon | Sigmund Forst | The Floating Minyan of Pirate's Cove | Notable | ||
| 1985 | Younger Reader | Florence B. Freedman | Robert Andrew Parker | Brothers | Winner |
| Yaffa Ganz | Harvey Klineman | The Story of Mimmy and Simmy | Notable | ||
| Leon Garfield | Michael Bragg | The King in the Garden | Notable | ||
| Marilyn Hirsh | Marilyn Hirsh | I Love Passover | Notable | ||
| Ruth Schild Karlinsky | Ruth Schild Karlinsky | My First Book of Mitzvos | Notable | ||
| Riki Levinson | Diane Goode | Watch the Stars Come Out | Notable | ||
| Mildred Phillips | Margot Zemach | The Sign in Mendel's Window | Notable | ||
| Barbara Pomerantz | Donna Ruff | Who Will Lead the Kiddush? | Notable | ||
| Diana Herman Rosenfeld | Yoel Kenny | A Tree Full of Mitzvos | Notable | ||
| Diana Herman Rosenfeld | Leonid Pinchevsky and Eliyahu Meshchaninov | The Very Best Place for a Penny | Notable | ||
| Glen Rounds | Glen Rounds | Washday on Noah's Ark | Notable | ||
| Sheila Segal | Joel Iskowitz | Joshua's Dream | Notable | ||
| Older Reader | Carol Snyder | Ike and Mama and the Seven Surprises | Winner | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Marvin Friedman | Ask Another Question: The Story and Meaning of Passover | Notable | ||
| Miriam Chaikin | Petra Mathers | Yossi Asks the Angels for Help | Notable | ||
| Eth Clifford | Donna Diamond | The Remembering Box | Notable | ||
| Barbara Cohen | Michael J. Deraney | Secret Grove | Notable | ||
| Howard Cushnir | Katherine Kahn | The Secret Spinner: Tales of Rav Gedalia | Notable | ||
| Norman Finkelstein | Lois Hokanson and Lars Hokanson | Remember Not to Forget | Notable | ||
| Erwin Herman & Agnes Herman | Katherine Kahn | The Yanov Torah | Notable | ||
| Lenore C. Kipper and Howard I. Gogot | Jana Paiss | The Alef-Bet of Jewish Values: Code Words of Jewish Life | Notable | ||
| Michael Mark | Toba at the Hands of a Thief | Notable | |||
| Maxine Schur | Dale Redpath | Shnook the Peddler | Notable | ||
| Arthur Waskow, David Waskow, and Shoshana Waskow | Amnon Danziger | Before There Was a Before | Notable | ||
| Teen Reader | Judie Angell | One Way to Ansonia | Notable | ||
| Linda Atkinson | In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 | Notable | |||
| Margery Evernden | The Dream Keeper | Notable | |||
| Stephen Kaufman | Does Anyone Here Know the Way to Thirteen? | Notable | |||
| Leonie Ossowski | Star without a Sky | Notable | |||
| Sarah Silberstein Swartz | Bar Mitzvah | Notable | |||
| 1984 | Younger Reader | Amy Schwartz | Amy Schwartz | Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks | Winner |
| Older Reader | Uri Orlev | The Island on Bird Street | Winner | ||
| 1983 | Younger Reader | Barbara Pomerantz | Leon Lurie | Bubby, Me, and Memories | Winner |
| Older Reader | Rose Zar | In the Mouth of the Wolf | Winner | ||
| 1982 | Younger Reader | Linda Heller | Linda Heller | The Castle on Hester Street | Winner |
| Older Reader | Marilyn Sachs | Call Me Ruth | Winner | ||
| 1981 | Younger Reader | Barbara Cohen | Michael J. Deraney | Yussel's Prayer | Winner |
| Older Reader | Kathryn Lasky | The Night Journey | Winner | ||
| 1980 | Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | A Russian Farewell | Winner | |
| 1979 | Carol Snyder | Ike and Mama and the Block Wedding | Winner | ||
| 1978 | Doris Orgel | The Devil in Vienna | Winner | ||
| 1977 | Anita Heyman | Exit from Home | Winner | ||
| 1976 | Milton Meltzer | Never to Forget | Winner | ||
| 1975 | Marietta Moskin | Waiting for Mama | Winner | ||
| 1974 | No Award Given | ||||
| 1973 | Yuri Suhl | Uncle Misha's Partisans | Winner | ||
| 1972 | No Award Given | ||||
| 1971 | No Award Given | ||||
| 1970 | Suzanne Lange | The Year | Winner | ||
| 1969 | Shulamith Ish-Kishor | Our Eddie | Winner | ||
| 1968 | Esther Hautzig | The Endless Steppe | Winner | ||
Body-of-Work Award
The body-of-work award is given "to recognize an author or entity who has made a substantial contribution over time to the genre of Jewish children's literature."[14] Beginning in 2018, the award became biennial instead of periodic.
Recipients
| Year | Category |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Jane Yolen[15] |
| 2020 | Lesléa Newman |
| 2018 | Harold Grinspoon and PJ Library |
| 2004 | Eric Kimmel |
| 2002 | Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler |
| 1997 | Barbara Diamond Goldin |
| 1989 | Yaffa Ganz |
| 1984 | Miriam Chaikin[16] |
| 1981 | Barbara Cohen |
| 1980 | Sadie Rose Weilerstein |
| 1979 | Marilyn Hirsh |
| 1978 | Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family |
| 1972 | Molly Cone |
| 1971 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Manuscript Award
The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award for children's books was first awarded in 1985. The winner receives $1,000.[17]
| Award Year | Title | Published Title | Author | Publisher | Publication Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Echo of Light | Noah Weisz | |||
| 2021 | Cats and Honey Cake | Sonja Spear | |||
| 2019 | A Corner of the World | Jessica Littman | |||
| 2018 | The Seventh Handmaiden | Judith Pransky | |||
| 2016 | Honey and Me | Meira Drazin | |||
| 2015 | Viva, Rose | Susan Krawitz | |||
| 2013 | Freestyle | Karen Propp | |||
| 2011 | In Search of Lottie | Susan A. Ross | |||
| 2010 | On the Run | Joan Schoettler | |||
| 2009 | When the Hurricane Came to New Orleans | When the Hurricane Came | Nechama Liss-Levinson | 2012 | |
| 2008 | Stealing the Show | Margaret Chaiken | |||
| 2007 | Getting Rid of Jeremy | Yael Mermelstein | |||
| 2004 | Cara's Kitchen | Julia's Kitchen | Brenda A. Ferber | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2006 |
| 2002 | A Pickpocket's Tale | A Pickpocket's Tale | Karen Schwabach | Random House | 2006 |
| 1999 | Zayda Was a Cowboy | Zayda Was a Cowboy | June E. Nislick | Jewish Publication Society | 2005 |
| 1998 | Devorah | The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story | Linda Press Wulfe | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2006 |
| 1997 | When the Soldiers Were Gone | When the Soldiers Were Gone | Vera W. Propp | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 1999 |
| 1997 | All Star Brothers | All Star Season | Tovah S. Yavin | Kar-Ben | 2006 |
| 1996 | Passover Promise | Donna Brown Agins | |||
| 1995 | After I Said No | Sheila Golburgh Johnson | |||
| 1994 | Of Heroes, Hooks and Heirlooms | Of Heroes, Hooks and Heirlooms | Faye Silton | Jewish Publication Society | 1996 |
| 1993 | The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin | The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin | Lilian Fox Ducharme | Texas Christian University Press | 1998 |
| 1991 | Garden of the Gentle Giant | David Meir-Levi | |||
| 1991 | Leaving Egypt | Lois Roisman | |||
| 1991 | Tamar's Cat | Aviva Cantor | |||
| 1990 | Rabbi Aaron's Treasure | Reb Aharon's Treasure | Hannah Bandes | Targum/Feldheim | 1993 |
| 1990 | Operation Dewey | Operation Dewey | Dr. Kirby Rogers | 2002 | |
| 1988 | Borders | Suzi Wizowaty | |||
| 1987 | The Streets Are Paved with Gold | The Streets Are Paved with Gold | Frances Weissenberg | Harbinger House | 1990 |
| 1986 | Cubs of the Lion of Judah | Elaine Soloway | |||
| 1985 | Spirit | Rosalie Fleisher |
References
Citations
- ↑ Pinchuck 2008, p. 27.
- ↑ Collins, Anastasia M. (2020). "The Cultural Doings and Undoings of the Sydney Taylor Book Award". Judaica Librarianship. 21: 95–104.
- ↑ Cummins, June (2017). "The Still Almost All-White World of Children's Literature: Theory, Practice, and Identity-Based Children's Book Awards". In Kidd, Kenneth B.; Thomas, Joseph T. (eds.). Prizing Children's Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children's Book Awards. New York: Routledge. pp. 87–103. ISBN 9781138650541.
- ↑ Pinchuck 2008, p. 27-28.
- 1 2 3 Pinchuck 2008, p. 28.
- 1 2 Pinchuck 2008, p. 29-30.
- ↑ "2016 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announcement". AJL News. 6 (1): 1. 2016. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2019-03-02 – via EBSCOhost.
- ↑ Estrin, Heidi; Kamin, Rachel (2007). "The Sydney Taylor Book Award". Book Links. 16 (3): 55–58. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2019-03-02 – via EBSCOhost.
- ↑ "How to submit books". Sydney Taylor Book Award. Association of Jewish Libraries. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ↑ Collins, Stacy M. (2 July 2020). "The Cultural Doings and Undoings of the Sydney Taylor Book Award". Judaica Librarianship. 21: 95–104. doi:10.14263/jl.v21i.539.
- ↑ "Sydney Taylor Book Awards" (PDF). The Association of Jewish Libraries. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- ↑ "Sydney Taylor Book Awards" (PDF). The Association of Jewish Libraries. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ↑ "Sydney Taylor Book Awards" (PDF). The Association of Jewish Libraries. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- 1 2 "SYDNEY TAYLOR BODY-OF-WORK AWARD" (PDF). Association of Jewish Libraries. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 July 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ↑ Morales, Macey. "American Library Association announces 2022 Youth Media Award winners". American Library Association. American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
- ↑ Phinney, Margaret Yatsevitch (2001). "CHAIKIN, Miriam". In Cullinan, Bernice E; Person, Diane Goetz (eds.). Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Continuum.
- ↑ "Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award". Association of Jewish Libraries. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ↑ "SYDNEY TAYLOR MANUSCRIPT AWARD WINNERS". Association of Jewish Libraries. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
Sources
- Pinchuck, Kathe (July 2008). "Recognizing Jewish Children's Literature For Forty Years: The Sydney Taylor Book Award". Judaica Librarianship. 14: 27–34. doi:10.14263/2330-2976.1071.
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