| It’s Her Story: Sacajawea | Randy’L He-Dow Teton | 2024 |
| Four Treasures of the Sky | Jenny Tinghui Zhang | 2024 |
| The Bright Side | Chad Otis | 2023 |
| The Beadworkers: Stories | Beth Piatote | 2023 |
| The Stories Behind the Stories | Danielle Higley | 2022 |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr | 2022 |
| All the Way to the Top | Annette Bay Pimentel | 2021 |
| Beauty and the Beak | Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp | 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | 2015, 2016, 2017 |
| Boys of Blur | N.D. Wilson | 2014 |
| Polly Bemis: A Chinese American Pioneer | Priscilla Wegars | 2013 |
| The Birthday Box | Leslie Patricelli | 2012 |
| 100 Cupboards | N. D. Wilson | 2011 |
| My Darlin Clementine | Kristiana Gregory | 2010 |
| Mudgie & Millie | Susan Nipp | 2009 |
| King of the Mild Frontier | Chris Crutcher | 2008 |
| Un Brella | Scott E. Franson | 2007 |
| P Is for Potato: An Idaho Alphabet | Stan Steiner & Joy Steiner | 2005 |
| Lewis and Clark’s Bittersweet Crossing | Carol Lynn MacGregor | 2004 |
| Mailing May | Michael O. Tunnell | 2003 |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink | 2002 |