| 2006 Informational Nominees |
- Antarctica: Journey to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers
- George versus George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer
- Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin
- The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden
- (Winner) Life-Size Dinosaurs by David Bergen
- My Librarian is a Camel: How books are Brought to Children around the World by Margriet Ruurs
- Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong
- Remember D-Day: The Plan, the Invasion, Survivor Stories by Ronald Drez
- Sequoya: The Cherokee Man who Gave his People Writing by James Rumford
- Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Loo
- Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery
- Wonderful Houses Around the World by Yoshio Komatsu
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| 2005 Informational Nominees |
- (Winner) Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
- Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights by Debbie S. Miller
- The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss by Kathleen Krull
- By My Brother's Side by Tiki and Ronde Barber
- Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
- The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins by Bea Uusma Schyffert
- On this Spot: An Expedition Back Through Time by Susan Goodman
- One Small Place in a Tree by Barbara Brenner
- Seurat and La Grande Jatte by Robert Burleigh
- What Presidents are Made of by Hanoch Piven
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| 2004 Informational Nominees |
- A is for Arches : Utah Alphabet by Becky Hall
- Fields of Fury : American Civil War by Jame McPhearson
- Hero Dogs : Couragous Canines in Action by Donna Jackson
- (Winner) How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
- Ladybugs : Red Fiery and Bright by Mia Posada
- Muhammad by Demi
- New Dinos : The Latest Finds! by Shelly Tanaka
- Pond by Gordan Morrison
- Secrets of the Deep Revealed by Frances Dipper
- To the Top : The Story of Everest by Stephen Venables
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| 2003 Informational Nominees |
- Food Rules : The Stuff You Munch, It's Crunch .. by Bill Haduch
- Give Me Liberty: The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman
- The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won by Stephen Ambrose
- Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope by Stephen Kramer
- Hmmm? The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Memory by Diane Swanson
- Michelangelo by Diane Stanley
- Shipwrecked : The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg
- (Winner) Tiger Math : Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger by Ann Whitehead
- Tomboy of the Air : Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott by Julie Cummins
- What Can You Do with a Paper Bag? by Judith Cressy
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| 2002 Informational Nominees |
- After the Spill : The Exxon Valdez Disaster, Then and Now by Sandra Markle
- The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Giblin
- The Genius of Leonardo by Guido Visconti
- Liberty by Lynn Curlee
- Mystery of the Mammoth Bones : And How It Was Solved by James Giblin
- The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro
- (Winner) The Snake Scientist by Sy Montgomery
- The Story of the Incredible Orchestra : An Introduction to the Musical Instruments and the Symphony by Bruce Koscielniak
- The Top of the World : Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins
- You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer : A Very Improper Story by Shana Corey
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| 2001 Informational Nominees |
- Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts About How Animals Adapt by Joanne Settel
- Gargoyle on the Roof by Jack Prelutsky
- History of Counting by Denise Schmandt-Sesserat
- (Winner) If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz
- Rimshots : Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythm by Charles Smith
- Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World : The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong
- To Everything There Is a Season by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Turn of the Century by Ellen Jackson
- What You Never Knew about Fingers, Forks, and Chopsticks by Patricia Lauber
- William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki
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| 2000 Informational Nominees |
- (Winner) A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick
- A World of Faith by Peggy Fletcher Stack
- An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly by Laurence Pringle
- Animal Senses: How Animals See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Feel by Pat Stephens
- The Brain: Our Nervous System by Seymour Simon
- Celtic Myths by Sam McBratney
- Crime Science by Vivien Bowers
- Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull
- National Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers by 1998 National Geographic Society
- Special Effects in Film and Television by Jake Hamilton
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| 1999 Informational Nominees |
- Anastasia's Album by Hugh Brewster
- Dinosaur Ghosts: The Mystery of Coelophysis by J. Lynett Gillette
- The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons
- Life and Times of the Peanut by Charles Micucci
- Lives of the Athletes: Thrills, Spills (And What t by Kathleen Krull
- The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring th by Kathryn Lasky
- Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman
- (Winner) Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki
- The Secrets of Animal Flight by Nic Bishop
- Sidewalk Games Around the World by Arlene Erlbach
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| 1998 Informational Nominees |
- Children Just Like Me: In Association with UNICEF by Susan Elizabeth and Barnabas Kindersley Copsey
- Children of China: An Artist's Journey by Nan Song Zhang
- Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp Based on a Classroom Diary by Michael O. Tunnell and George W. Chilcoat
- Color by Ruth Heller
- Daily Life in a Covered Wagon by Paul Erickson
- Immigrants (Library of Congress) by Martin W. Sandler
- (Winner) It's a Spoon, Not a Shovel by Caralyn Buehner
- Mysteries of the Dead by Donna Jackson
- Native Artists of North America (Rainbow Warrior Artists) by Reavis Moore
- This Is The Place! A Crossroads of Utah's Past by Pat and Will Bagley
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| 1997 Informational Nominees |
- A Pioneer Sampler by Barbara Greenwood
- Adventure in Space by Elaine Scott
- Ancient Ones by Barbara Bash
- The Dragons are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky
- Kids at Work by Russell Freedman
- (Winner) Never Take a Pig to Lunch and Other Poems About the Fun of Eating by Nadine Bernard Westcott
- The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
- Tutankhamen's Gift by Robert Sabuda
- What Does the Crow Know? by Margery Facklam
- The Young Author's Do-It-Yourself Book by Donna Guthrie et al
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| 1996 Informational Nominees |
- Gravity by Gloria Skurzynski
- Incredible Edible Science by Tina L. Seelig
- The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
- Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies... by Kathleen Krull
- (Winner) Mummies and Their Mysteries by Charlotte Wilcox
- Riddle-Me Rhymes by Myra C Livingston
- Rosie, a Visiting Dog's Story by Stephanie Calmenson
- Safari Beneath the Sea: the Wonder of the North Pacific Coast by Diane Swanson
- Third Planet by Sally Ride
- Young Dancer by Darcy Bussell
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| 1995 Informational Nominees |
- Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy
- Creatures That Glow: A Glow in the Dark Book by Joanne Barkan
- Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Manners by Lucille Recht Penner
- Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
- Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
- Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad ... by Kathleen Krull
- Look What I Did With a Leaf by Mortiza Sohi
- Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from... by Virginia Hamilton
- (Winner) Sadako by Eleanor Coerr
- Soap Science: A Science Book Bubbling with... by J.L. Bell
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| 1994 Informational Nominees |
- A Separate Battle: Women and the... by Ina Chang
- Come Back Salmon by Molly Cone
- Inner Chimes: Poems on Poetry by Bobbye Goldstein
- Into the Mummy's Tomb by Nicholas Reeves
- Light by David Burnie
- Living Dangerously by Doreen Rappaport
- Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Jones
- Prairie Visions by Pam Conrad
- (Winner) Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections by Richard Platt
- Where on Earth: a Geographunny by Paul Rosenthal
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| 1993 Informational Nominees |
- Amazing Butterflies and Moths by John Still
- American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
- Do People Grow on Family Trees? by Ira Wolfman
- (Winner) Dolphin Adventure by Wayne Grover
- Escape From Slavery by Doreen Rappaport
- For Laughing Out Loud by Jack Prelutsky
- Hotshots: Baseball by Susan Slote
- Weather Sky by Bruce McMillan
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| 1992 Informational Nominees |
- (Winner) Ant Colony by H. Fischner-Nagel
- Balloon Science by Etta Kaner
- In Your Own Words: A Beginners' Guide by Sylvia Cassedy
- Radical Robots: Can You Be Replaced? by George Harrar
- Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved by Milton Meltzer
- Restless Earth: Secret of Earthquakes by Francois Michel
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| 1991 Informational Nominees |
- Berta Benz and the Motorwagon by Mindy Bingham
- (Winner) Bill Peet : An Autobiography by Bill Peet
- Birdwise: Forty Fun Feats for Finding by Pamela Hickman
- Do-It-Yourself Genius Kit (4 Books) by Gyles Brandreth
- Flag (Eyewitness Book) by William Crampton
- Still More Science Activities, 3rd Ed by Megan Stine
- Whales by Seymour Simon
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| 1990 Informational Nominees |
- Big Beast Book: Dinosaurs and How They... by Jerry Booth
- (Winner) How To Make Pop-Ups by Joan Irvine
- Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Biork
- Round Buildings, Square Buildings... by Philip M. Isaacson
- Sun, the Wind and the Rain by Lisa W. Peters
- Super Flyers by Neil Francis
- Wild Inside by Linda Allison
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| 1989 Informational Nominees |
- African Journey by John Chaisson
- American Revolutionaries by Milton Meltzer
- Do Animals Dream by Joyce Pope
- Go In and Out the Window by
- (Winner) Your Amazing Senses by Ron Van Der Meer
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| 1988 Informational Nominees |
- Dinosaurs are Different by
- Goose Family Book by Sybille Kalas
- Great Wall of China by Leonard Fisher
- (Winner) How Much Is A Million by David Schwartz
- To Space and Back by Sally Ride
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| 1987 Informational Nominees |
- ( There were No Nominees or Winners for this category in 1987 )
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| 1986 Informational Nominees |
- Cowboys of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
- Daytime Animals--Large as Life by Joanna Cole
- (Winner) Great Painters by Piero Ventura
- How It Feels When Parents Divorce by Jill Krementz
- Koko's Kitten by Francine Patterson
- Puppeteer by Kathryn Lasky
- Sailing Ships by Alan McGowan
- Saturn by Seymour Simon
- Saving the Peregrine Falcon by Caroline Arnold
- Secret Language of Snow by Terry T Williams
- Word Works by Cathy B Kaye
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