| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 1979 |
|
Katherine Paterson |
The Great Gilly Hopkins |
| 1978 |
|
Judith Kohl |
The View From the Oak |
|
Herbert Kohl |
The View From the Oak |
| 1977 |
|
Katherine Paterson |
The Master Puppeteer |
| 1976 |
|
Walter D. Edmonds |
Bert Breen's Barn |
| 1975 |
|
Virginia Hamilton |
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
| 1974 |
|
Eleanor Cameron |
The Court of the Stone Children |
| 1973 |
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Farthest Shore |
| 1972 |
|
Donald Barthelme |
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn |
| 1971 |
|
Lloyd Alexander |
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian |
| 1970 |
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw |
| 1969 |
|
Meindert DeJong |
Journey from Peppermint Street |
