Activity sheets of past winners are no longer available.
2021 Winner: Bad Dog written by Mike Boldt
2020 Winner: Dandy Written by: Ame Dyckman
2019 Winner: Can I Be Your Dog? Written by: Troy Cummings
2018 Winner: Pug Meets Pig Written by Sue Lowell Gallionillustrated by Joyce Wan
2017 Winner: 10 Little Ninjas Written by Miranda Paul
2016 Winner: Bunnies!!! by Kevan Atteberry; New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
2015 winner: Naked! written by Michael Ian Black and illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Simon & Schuster (c) 2014
2014 Winner: Mustache Baby written Bridget Heos and illustrated by Joy Ang. Clarion Books, 2013
2013 Winner: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean. New York: Harper Collins, c2012.
2012 Winner: Press Here written and illustrated by Herve Tullet, translated by Christopher Franceschelli. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011.
2011 Winner: Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
by Eric Litwin.
Illustrated by James Dean.
New York: HarperCollins, c2010.
2010 Winner: The Pout-Pout Fish
by Deborah Diesen.
Illustrated by Dan Hanna.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, c2008.
2009 Winner: Bye-Bye Big Bad Bullybug
by Ed Emberley. New York : LB Kids, c2007.
2008 Winner: Llama Llama Mad at Mama
by Anna Dewdney. New York : Viking, c2007.
2007 Winner: Move Over, Rover!
by Karen Beaumont ; illustrated by Jane Dyer. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006.
2006 Winner: I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!
by Karen Beaumont ; illustrated by David Catrow. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2005.
2005 Winner: Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum
by Lisa Wheeler. illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith. Boston : Little, Brown, 2004.
2004 Winner: Bubble Bath Pirates!
by Jarrett J. Krosoczka. New York : Viking, 2003.
2003 Winner: The Little School Bus
by Carol Roth ; illustrated by Pamela Paparone. New York : North South Books, 2002.
2002 Winner: Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar?
by Bonnie Lass & Philemon Sturges, and illustrated by Ashley Wolff. Boston, MA : Little, Brown, 2000.
2001 Winner: Two Cool Coyotes
by Jillian Lund ; illustrated by Jillian Lund. New York : Dutton Children’s Books, 1999.
2000 Winner: Bark, George
by Jules Fieffer ; illustrated by Jules Fieffer. [S.I.] : HarperCollins, 1999.
1999 Winner: No, David!by David Shannon ; illustrated by David Shannon. New York : Blue Sky Press, 1998.
1998 Winner: Cock-A-Doodle-Moo
by Bernard Most ; illustrated by Bernard Most. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1996.
1997 Winner: “Hi, Pizza Man!”
by Virginia Walter ; pictures by Ponder Goembel. New York : Orchard Books, 1995.
1996 Winner: Splash, Splash by Jeff Sheppard ; illustrated by Dennis Panek. New York : Macmillan, 1994.