2002

author Aidan Chambers (UK)
illustrator Quentin Blake (UK)

2000

author Ana Maria Machado (Brazil)
illustrator Anthony Browne (UK)

1998

author Katherine Paterson (USA)
illustrator Tomi Ungerer (France)

1996

author Uri Orlev (Israel)
illustrator Klaus Ensikat (Germany)

1994

author Michio Mado (Japan)
illustrator Jörg Müller (Switzerland)

1992

author Virginia Hamilton (United States)
illustrator Kveta Pacovska (Czechoslovakia)

1990

author Tormod Haugen (Norway)
illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria)

1988

author Annie M.G. Schmidt (Netherlands)
illustrator Dusan Kallay (Czechoslovakia)

1986

author Patricia Wrightson (Australia)
illustrator Robert Ingpen (Australia)

1984

author Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)
illustrator Mitsumasa Anno (Japan)

1982

author Lygia Bojunga Nunes (Brazil)
illustrator Zbigniew Rychlicki (Poland)

1980

author Bohumil Ríha (Czechoslovakia)
illustrator Suekichi Akaba (Japan)

1978

author Paula Fox (USA)
illustrator Svend Otto S. (Denmark)

1976

author Cecil Bødker (Denmark)
illustrator Tatjana Mawrina (USSR)

1974

author Maria Gripe (Sweden)
illustrator Farshid Mesghali (Iran)

1972

author Scott O'Dell (USA)
illustrator Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark)

1970

author Gianni Rodari (Italy)
illustrator Maurice Sendak (USA)

1968

authors James Krüss (West Germany) and José Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)
illustrator Jirí Trnka (Czechoslovakia)

1966

author Tove Jansson (Finland)
illustrator Alois Carigiet (Switzerland)

1964

author René Guillot (France)

1962

author Meindert DeJong (USA)

1960

author Erich Kästner (West Germany)
Honor award author Jean Craighead George (USA)--BookMuse features My Side of the Mountain

1958

author Astrid Lindgren (Sweden)

1956

author Eleanor Farjeon (Great Britain)