The National Book Foundation awards books that are written by American citizens and published by American publishers between December 1 of the previous year and November 30 of the current year. The following list represents the winners from the Children's Book categories that were awarded from until 1969 until 1982.
1983 Winner:
A House Is a House for Me
by Mary Ann Hoberman
Category: Children's Picture Books (Paperback)
Also: Memoria Press 1st Grade Read-Aloud Program
1983 Winner:
Doctor De Soto
by William Steig
Category: Children's Picture Books (Hardcover)
Also: Memoria Press 1st Grade Read-Aloud Program
Also: Reading Roadmaps 3rd Grade
Also: Reading Roadmaps Kindergarten
1983 Winner:
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
Recommended Age: 4
Category: Children's Picture Books (Hardcover)
Also: Five in a Row Book List for Ages 4-8
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
1983 Winner:
Chimney sweeps: Yesterday and today
by James Cross Giblin
Category: Children's Books, Nonfiction
1983 Winner:
Marked By Fire
by Joyce Carol Thomas
Category: Children's Fiction (Paperback)
1983 Winner:
A Place Apart
by Paula Fox
Category: Children's Fiction (Paperback)
1983 Winner:
Homesick
by Jean Fritz
Category: Children's Fiction (Hardcover)
Also: Former Sonlight Books
1982 Winner:
Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
Recommended Age: 9
Category: Book Illustration (Original Art)
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
1982 Winner:
Noah's Ark
by Peter Spier
Recommended Age: 4
Category: Children's Books, Picture Books (Paperback)
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Also: Reading Roadmaps Kindergarten
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4
1982 Winner:
Outside Over There
by Maurice Sendak
Category: Children's Books, Picture Books (Hardcover)
Also: Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature
1982 Winner:
A Penguin Year
by Susan Bonners
Category: Children's Books, Nonfiction
1982 Winner:
Words By Heart
by Ouida Sebestyen
Category: Children's Books, Fiction (Paperback)
1982 Winner:
Westmark
by Lloyd Alexander
Category: Children's Books, Fiction (Hardcover)
1981 Winner:
Oh, Boy! Babies
by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali
Category: Children's Book, Nonfiction (Hardcover)
1981 Winner:
Ramona and Her Mother
by Beverly Cleary
Category: Children's Book, Fiction (Paperback)
1981 Winner:
The Night Swimmers
by Betsy Byars
Category: Children's Book, Fiction (Hardcover)
1980 Winner:
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Category: Children's Books (Paperback)
1980 Winner:
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832
by Joan W. Blos
Recommended Age: 15
Category: Children's Books (Hardcover)
Also: Former Sonlight Books
Also: Newbery Medal Winners
1979 Winner:
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
Category: Children's Literature
1978 Winner:
A View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures
by Judith and Herbert R. Kohl
Category: Children's Literature
1977 Winner:
The Master Puppeteer
by Katherine Paterson
Category: Children's Literature
Also: Sonlight Level F for Ages 10-13
1976 Winner:
Bert Breen's Barn
by Walter D Edmonds
Category: Children's Literature
1975 Winner:
M. C. Higgins, the Great
by Virginia Hamilton
Recommended Age: 12
Category: Children's Books
Also: Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature
Also: Newbery Medal Winners
1974 Winner:
The Court of the Stone Children
by Eleanor Cameron
Category: Children's Books
1973 Winner:
The Farthest Shore
by Ursula K. LeGuin
Category: Children's Books
1972 Winner:
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or, the Hithering Thithering Djinn
by Donald Barthelme
Category: Children's Books
1971 Winner:
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
by Lloyd Alexander
Category: Children's Books
1970 Winner:
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Children's Books
1969 Winner:
Journey from Peppermint Street
by Meindert De Jong
Category: Children's Literature