| Year | Title | Authors | Ref. |
| 2000s |
| 2008 | Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 and Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 (Archaia Entertainment) | David Petersen | [1] |
| Amelia Rules! and Amelia Rules! Funny Stories (Renaissance Press) | Jimmy Gownley |
| Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures (Dark Horse Comics) | edited by Jeremy Barlow |
| The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Peter Sís |
| Yotsuba&! (ADV Manga) | Kiyohiko Azuma |
| 2009 | Tiny Titans (DC Comics) | Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani | [2][3] |
| Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper (Scholastic Graphix) | Kazu Kibuishi |
| Cowa! (Viz Media) | Akira Toriyama |
| Princess at Midnight (Image Comics) | Andi Watson |
| Stinky (RAW Junior) | Eleanor Davis |
| 2010s |
| 2010 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Marvel Comics) | L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower, and Skottie Young | [4][5] |
| Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Alfred A. Knopf) | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook (Bloomsbury Publishing) | Eleanor Davis |
| Tiny Tyrant, vol. 1: The Ethelbertosaurus (First Second Books) | Lewis Trondheim and Fabrice Parme |
| The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics (Abrams ComicArts/Toon Books) | edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly |
| 2011 | Tiny Titans (DC Comics) | Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani | [6][7] |
| Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean (Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Press/Hyperion Books for Children) | Sara Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle |
| Amelia Rules!: True Things (Adults Don’t Want Kids to Know) (Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster) | Jimmy Gownley |
| Binky to the Rescue (Kids Can Press) | Ashley Spires |
| Scratch9 (Ape Entertainment) | Rob M. Worley and Jason T. Kruse |
| The Unsinkable Walker Bean (First Second Books) | Aaron Renier |
| 2012 | Snarked! (KaBOOM!) | Roger Langridge | [8][7] |
| The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DC Comics) | Sholly Fisch, Rick Burchett, and Dan Davis |
| Amelia Rules: The Meaning of Life ... And Other Stuff (Atheneum Books) | Jimmy Gownley |
| The Ferret's a Foot (Graphic Universe/Lerner Books) | Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue |
| Princeless (Action Lab Comics) | Jeremy Whitley and Mia Goodwin |
| Zita the Spacegirl (First Second Books) | Ben Hatke |
| 2013 | Adventure Time (KaBOOM!) | Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb | [9][7] |
| Amulet Book 5: Prince of the Elves (Scholastic Graphix) | Kazu Kibuishi |
| Cow Boy: A Boy and His Horse (Archaia Entertainment) | Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos |
| Crogan's Loyalty (Oni Press) | Chris Schweizer |
| Hilda and the Midnight Giant (Nobrow Press) | Luke Pearson |
| The Road to Oz (Marvel Comics) | L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young |
| 2014 | The Adventures of Superhero Girl (Dark Horse Comics) | Faith Erin Hicks | [10][7] |
| Hilda and the Bird Parade (Nobrow Press) | Luke Pearson |
| Jane, the Fox and Me (Groundwood Books) | Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli |
| The Lost Boy (Scholastic Graphix) | Greg Ruth |
| Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard vol. 2 edited (Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios) | David Petersen, Paul Morrissey, and Rebecca Taylor |
| Star Wars: Jedi Academy (Scholastic Kids) | Jeffrey Brown |
| 2015 | El Deafo (Amulet Books/Abrams Books) | Cece Bell | [11][7] |
| Batman Li'l Gotham, vol. 2 (DC Comics) | Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen |
| I Was the Cat (Oni Press) | Paul Tobin and Benjamin Dewey |
| Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland (IDW Publishing) | Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez |
| Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse (DC Comics) | Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani |
| 2016 | Over the Garden Wall (Boom! Studios/KaBOOM!) | Pat McHale, Amalia Levari, and Jim Campbell | [12][7] |
| Baba Yaga's Assistant (Candlewick Press) | Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll |
| Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War (Kids Can Press) | Jessica Dee Humphreys, Michel Chikwanine, and Claudia Dávila |
| Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor (Abrams Books/Amulet Books) | Nathan Hale |
| Roller Girl (Dial Press) | Victoria Jamieson |
| Sunny Side Up (Scholastic Graphix) | Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm |
| 2017 | Ghosts (Scholastic Graphix) | Raina Telgemeier | [13][7] |
| The Drawing Lesson (Ten Speed Press) | Mark Crilley |
| Hilda and the Stone Forest (Flying Eye Books) | Luke Pearson |
| Rikki (Karate Petshop) | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Norm Harper and Matthew Foltz-Gray |
| Science Comics: Dinosaurs (First Second Books) | MK Reed and Joe Flood |
| 2018 | The Tea Dragon Society (Oni Press) | Katie O'Neill | [14][7] |
| Bolivar (Archaia Entertainment) | Sean Rubin |
| Home Time, Book One: Under the River (Top Shelf Productions) | Campbell Whyte |
| Nightlights (Nobrow Press) | Lorena Alvarez |
| Wallace the Brave (Andrews McMeel Publishing) | Will Henry |
| 2019 | The Nameless City: The Divided Earth (First Second Books) | Faith Erin Hicks | [15][16] |
| Aquicorn Cove (Oni Press) | Katie O'Neill |
| Be Prepared (First Second Books) | Vera Brosgol |
| The Cardboard Kingdom (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children’s Books) | Chad Sell |
| Crush (JY/Yen Press) | Svetlana Chmakova |
| 2020s |
| 2020 | Guts (Scholastic Graphix) | Raina Telgemeier | [17][18] |
| Akissi: More Tales of Mischief (Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press) | Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin |
| Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Scholastic Graphix) | Dav Pilkey |
| New Kid (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins) | Jerry Craft |
| This Was Our Pact (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) | Ryan Andrews |
| The Wolf in Underpants (Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group) | Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz, and Paul Cauuet |
| 2021 | Superman Smashes the Klan (DC Comics) | Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru | [19][20] |
| Doodleville (Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House Children's Books) | Chad Sell |
| Go with the Flow (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) | Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann |
| Mister Invincible: Local Hero (Magnetic Press) | Pascal Jousselin |
| Snapdragon (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) | Kat Leyh |
| Twins (Scholastic Graphix) | Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright |