| Year |
Theme |
Poster Artist |
| 2007 |
Rise Up Reading |
Edward Koren |
| 2006 |
More Books, Please! |
Jules Feiffer |
| 2005 |
Imagine |
Mark Teague |
| 2004 |
Let's Book |
Chris Raschka |
| 2003 |
Free to Read |
David Wiesner |
| 2002 |
Book Time |
Kevin Henkes |
| 2001 |
Get Carried Away...Read |
Simms Taback |
| 2000 |
Fuel Your Mind |
David Shannon |
| 1999 |
Plant a seed...Read! |
Eric Carle |
| 1998 |
Books Go Everywhere |
Diane Stanley |
| 1997 |
Any Time is Book Time |
Peter Sis |
| 1996 |
Oh, the Places You'll Go |
Jan Brett |
| 1995 |
Bound for Discovery |
Lane Smith |
| 1994 |
Books for Everyone/Everyone for Books |
Jerry Pinkney |
| 1993 |
Share the Adventure |
William Joyce |
| 1992 |
Read...Think...Dream |
Fred Marcellino |
| 1991 |
The World is an Open Book |
Paul Zelinsky |
| 1990 |
Wonder Through the Pages |
Ed Young |
| 1989 |
Ready, Set, Read! |
Richard Egielski |
| 1988 |
Wish Upon A Book |
Steven Kellogg |
| 1987 |
Change Your Mind |
Marc Simont |
| 1986 |
Reach for A Book |
Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1985 |
Good Books, Good Times! |
Marc Brown |
| 1984 |
Bring on the Books! |
Gerald McDermott |
| 1983 |
Get Into Books |
Tomie dePaola |
| 1982 |
Get Lost in a Book |
James Stevenson |
| 1981 |
Anytime Anyplace Any Book |
Wendy Watson |
| 1980 |
Books Alive! |
Trina Schart Hyman |
| 1979 |
More Books in the Home! |
Rosemary Wells |
| 1978 |
Hello Book |
Laurent De Brunhoff |
| 1977 |
Read All About It |
Anita Lobel |
| 1976 |
BookMagic |
Uri Shulevitz |
| 1975 |
Curious? Read! |
Richard Scarry |
| 1974 |
Books for All Reasons |
James Marshall |
| 1973 |
Live! Read! |
Margot Zemach |
| 1972 |
Books Now! Books Wow! |
William Steig |
| 1971 |
Read-IN '71 |
Arnold Lobel |
| 1970 |
This is the Age of the Book |
Mercer Mayer |
| 1969 |
Book Power |
Emily McCully |
| 1968 |
Go Places with Books |
Ellen Raskin |
| 1967 |
Take Off with Books |
Tomi Ungerer |
| 1966 |
Books Please |
Antonio Frasconi |
| 1965 |
Sing Out for Books |
Ezra Jack Keats |
| 1964 |
Swing Into Books |
Bruno Munari |
| 1963 |
Three Cheers for Books |
Adrienne Adams |
| 1962 |
I Like Books! |
Kate Seredy |
| 1961 |
Hurray for Books! |
Peter Burchard |
| 1960 |
Hurray for Books! |
Maurice Sendak |
| 1959 |
Go Exploring in Books |
Feodor Rojankovsky |
| 1958 |
Explore with Books |
Paul Rand |
| 1957 |
Explore with Books |
Alice and Martin Provensen |
| 1956 |
It's Always Book Time |
Leonard Weisgard |
| 1955 |
Let's Read More |
Garth Williams |
| 1954 |
Let's Read |
Lynd Ward |
| 1953 |
Reading Is Fun |
Jan Balet |
| 1952 |
Reading Is Fun |
Roger Duvoisin |
| 1951 |
New Horizons with Books |
Marcia Brown |
| 1950 |
Make Friends with Books |
William Pène du Bois |
| 1949 |
Make Friends with Books |
Elizabeth Tyler Wolcott |
| 1948 |
Books Tell the Story |
Marguerite Loffte de Angeli |
| 1947 |
Books for the World of Tomorrow |
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire |
| 1946 |
Books are Bridges |
Maud and Miska Petersham |
| 1945 |
United Through Books |
Gertrude Howe |
| 1944 |
United Through Books |
Nedda Walker |
| 1943 |
Build the Future with Books |
Elizabeth Orton Jones |
| 1942 |
Forward with Books |
F. Hasse |
| 1941 |
Forward with Books |
Helen Moore Sewell |
| 1940 |
Good Books, Good Friends |
Maud and Miska Petersham |
| 1939 |
Books Around the World |
Ralph Bell Fuller |
| 1938 |
New Books, New Worlds |
Joseph Binder |
| 1937 |
Reading—The Magic Highway to Adventure |
Kenneth Fagg |
| 1936 |
Books to Grow on—The Modern World for Young Readers |
Jay M. Reibel |
| 1935 |
Reading for Fun |
Richard Floethe |
| 1934 |
Ride the Book Trail to Knowledge and Adventure |
Grace A. Paull |
| 1933 |
Grow Up with Books: Add a Shelf for Every Year |
Ruth Alexander Nichols |
| 1932 |
Young America's Book Parade |
Walter Cole |
| 1931 |
Round the World Book Fair |
Maud and Miska Petersham |
| 1930 |
More Books In The Home! |
Jessie Willcox Smith (repeat of 1919 poster) |
| 1929 |
More Books in the Home |
Robert Gellert |
| 1928 |
Books—Romance, History, Travel |
Newell Convers Wyeth (repeat of 1927 poster) |
| 1927 |
Books—Romance, History, Travel |
Newell Convers Wyeth |
| 1926 |
After All—There is Nothing Like a Good Book |
Jon O. Brubaker (repeat of 1925 poster) |
| 1925 |
After All—There is Nothing Like a Good Book |
Jon O. Brubaker |
| 1924 |
More Books In The Home! |
Jessie Willcox Smith |
| 1923 |
More Books In The Home! |
Jessie Willcox Smith (repeat of 1919 poster) |
| 1922 |
More Books In The Home! |
Jessie Willcox Smith (repeat of 1919 poster) |
| 1921 |
More Books In The Home! |
Jessie Willcox Smith (repeat of 1919 poster) |
| 1920 |
More Books In The Home! |
Jessie Willcox Smith (repeat of 1919 poster) |
| 1919 |
More Books In The Home! |
Jessie Willcox Smith |