Garden State Book Awards

Children's Non-Fiction Winners

2005
Bury the Dead: Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons and Rituals
Christopher Sloan

2004
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Barbara Kerley and Brian Selznick

2003
So You Want To Be President?
Judith St. George and David Small

2002
Behold...The Dragons!
Gail Gibbons

2001
Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (And What the Neighbors Thought)
Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt

2000
Lou Gehring: the Luckiest Man
David Adler and Terry Widener

1999
The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

1998
The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

1997
The Big Bug Book
Margery Facklam and Paul Facklam

1996
My Visit to the Aquarium
Aliki

1995
The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

1994
Big Cats
Seymour Simon

1993
The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

1992
The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

1991
Volcanoes
Seymour Simon

1990
Koko's Story
Francine Patterson and Ronald Cohn

1989
To Space and Back
Sally Ride

1988
How They Built the Statue of Liberty
Mary J. Shapiro and Huck Scarry

1987
The New Kid on the Block: Poems
Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson

1986
Draw 50 Monsters, Creeps, Superheroes, Demons, Dragons, Nerds...
Lee J. Ames

1985
It's Basic: The ABC's of Computer Programming
Shelly Lipson and Janice Stapleton

1984
A Light in the Attic
Shel Silvertstein

1983
A Show of Hands: Say it in Sign Language
Marybeth Sullivan and Linda Bourke

1982
Mummies Made in Egypt
Aliki

1981
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Millicent Selsam

1980
The Quicksand Book
Tomie DePaola

1979
A Very Young Dancer
Jill Krementz

1978
How Kittens Grow
Millicent Selsam and Esther Bubley

1977
On the Trail of Bigfoot
Marion T. Place