Year	Picture Books	Junior Books
2011	Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas	The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
2010	Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larson	Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadahota
2009	Who is Melvin Bubble? by Nick Bruel	Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
2008	Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt	Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex
2007	Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley.	A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin
2006	My Lucky Day written and illustrated by Keiko Kasza.	Togo written and illustrated by Robert J. Blake
2005	Bad Boys by Margie Palatini, illustrated by Henry Cole.	Secret Knowledge of Grownups, The Second File by David Wisniewski
2004	Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz	The Secrets of Ms. Snickle's Class by Laurie Miller Hornick
2003	More Parts by Tedd Arnold	Fearless Jack by Paul Brett Johnson
2002	A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon	Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan
2001	Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester	Tornado by Betsy Byars
2000	Ghost of Sifty Sam by Angela Shelf Medearis	Crash by Jerry Spinelli
1999	Verdi by Janell Cannon	Frindle by Andrew Clements
1998	Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink by Diane DeGroat	Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds
1997	Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman	Wicked Jack by Connie Wooldridge
1996	The Man Who Tricked a Ghost by Laurence Yep	My Teacher Fried My Brains by Bruce Coville
*1995	The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister	The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1994	The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka
1993	The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy
**1992	In the Dark, Dark, Room and other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz

** 1992 - First NCCBA Award
* 1995 - First year Junior Book category was awarded