Previous Milner Award Winners

	1983 – Judy Blume	("Freckle Juice", "Superfudge")
	1984 – Peggy Parish	("Amelia Bedelia", "The Haunted House")
	1985 – Paula Danziger	("Amber Brown", "The Cat Ate my Gymsuit")
	1986 – Barbara Park	("Junie B. Jones")
	1987 – Lois Lowry	("Anastasia Krupnik", "The Giver")
	1988 – Francine Pascal	("Sweet Valley High")
	1989 – John Steptoe	("Stevie", "Creativity")
	1990 – Louis Sachar	("Wayside School", "Holes")
	1991 – Marc Brown	("Arthur and D.W.")
	1992 – Barthe DeClements	("No Place for Me", "Double Trouble")
	1993 – Matt Christopher	("Miracle at the Park", "Stealing Home")
	1994 – Joanna Cole	("The Magic School Bus")
	1995 – R.L. Stine	("Goosebumps")
	1996 – Tomie dePaola	("Strega Nona", "Pancakes for Breakfast")
	1997 – Betsy Duffey	("Cody", "My Dog, My Hero")
	1998 – Jerry Spinelli	("Crash", "Maniac Magee")
	1999/2000 – Connie Porter	("Addy")
	2001– Mary Pope Osborne	("Magic Tree House")
	2002 – Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones	("Bailey School Kids")
	2003 – Betsy Byars	("Summer of the Swans", "The Pinballs")
	2004 – Eloise Greenfield	("Honey, I Love")
	2005 – Helen Lester	("Tacky the Penguin")
	2006 - Laura Numeroff	("If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", "What Grandmas do Best")
	2007 - Megan McDonald	("Judy Moody", "Stink")
	2008 - David Shannon	("No, David", "A Bad Case of Stripes")
	2009 - Margie Palatini	("Geek Chic"," The Zoey Zone", "Gone with the Wand", "A fairy’s Tale"," Piggie Pie","Lousy Rotten Stinkin Grapes)