1979 |
Panda Cake | Rosalie Seidler |
| Chester's Chipmunk Thanksgiving | Barbara Williams | |
| The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson | |
| Gentlehands | M.E. Kerr | |
1978 |
Noah's Ark | Peter Spier |
| The Seeing Stick | Jane Yolen | |
| Come To The Edge | Julia Cunningham | |
| Where's Your Head | Dale Carlson | |
| The Wheel of King Asoka | Ashok Davar | |
1977 |
Willy Bear | Mildred Kantrowitz |
| Frog and Toad All Year | Arnold Lobel | |
| The Champion of Merrimack Country | Roger Drury | |
| Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear! | N.M. Bodecker | |
| Dear Bill, Remember Me? | Norma Mazer | |
1976 |
Anno's Alphabet | Mitsumasa Anno |
| How the Witch Got Alf | Cora Scott | |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | |
| Bert Breen's Barn | Walter D. Edmonds | |
| Pyramid | David Macaulay | |
1975 |
Dawn | Uri Shulevitz |
| My Grandson Lew | Charlotte Zolotow | |
| First Snow | Helen Countant | |
| Save the Mustangs | Anne Weiss | |
| A Billion for Boris | Mary Rogers | |
1974 |
It's Raining, Said John Twaining | N.M. Bodecker |
| Gorilla, Gorilla | Symeon Shimin | |
| I'll Protect You From the Jungle Beasts | Martha Alexander | |
| The Wolf | Michael Fox | |
| Guests in the Promised Land | Kristin Hunter | |
| The Right To Know | Robert Liston | |
1973 |
The Adventures of Obadiah | Brinton Turkle |
| The Book of Giant Stories | David Harrison | |
| Tracking the Unearthly Creatures | Howard Smith | |
| Freaky Friday | Mary Rogers | |
| Vanishing Wings | Griffing Barncroft | |
| This Star Shall Abide | Sylvia Engdahl | |
| Dominic | William Steig | |
1972 |
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas | Russell Hoban |
| On The Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed | Arnold Lobel | |
| Annie and the Old One | Miska Miles | |
| Pochontas and the Strangers | Clyde Bulla | |
| The Headless Cupid | Zilpha Snyder | |
| The Rights of the People | Walter Goodman | |
1971 |
The Erie Canal | Peter Spier |
| A Moment of Silence | Pierre Janssen | |
| The Changeling | Zilpha Snyder | |
| The Guardians | John Christopher | |
| Sea and Earth | ||
| UNICEF Book of Children's Legends | William Kaufman | |
| UNICEF Book of Children's Poems | William Kaufman | |
| UNICEF Book of Children's Prayers | William Kaufman | |
| UNICEF Book of Children's Songs | William Kaufman | |
1970 |
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse | Leo Lionni |
| Tucker's Countryside | George Selden | |
| Brother Can You Spare A Dime | Milton Meltzer | |
| Escape From Nowhere | Jeannette Eyerly |