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Beginning with the 2021 Lecture, the award name changed from the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award to the Children's Literature Lecture Award.

2023: Bryan Collier. "Dreamwalker"
Watch Collier's lecture
Hosted by Dayton Metro Library and the University of Dayton

2022: No lecturer selected due to delays in lectures caused by COVID-19

2021: Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
Watch the celebration of Dr. Sims Bishop's work
Hosted virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2020: Neil Gaiman
Hosted by Sacramento (Calif.) Public Library

2019: Dr. Debbie Reese. "An Indigenous Critique of Whiteness in Children's Literature"

Hosted by University of Wisconsin -- Madison

2010: Kathleen T. Horning. ""
Hosted by Riverside County (Calif.) Library System

2009: Walter Dean Myers. "."
Hosted by the Langston Hughes Library at the Children's Defense Fund Alex Haley Farm, Clinton, Tennessee

2008: David Macaulay. "."
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Hosted by South Central Library System, Madison, Wisconsin

2007: Kevin Henkes. "."
Hosted by the McConnell Center for the Study of Youth Literature, University of Kentucky SLIS

2006: Russell Freedman. "."
Hosted by the Williamsburg Regional Library with the support of The Library of Virginia and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

2005: Richard Jackson. "."
Co-hosted by the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School.

2004: Ursula K. Le Guin. "Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature."
Hosted by Maricopa County Library District, Arizona State University (ASU), and the Arizona Center for the Book

2003: . "Descent into Limbo."
Hosted by Cambridge (Mass.) Public Library and Children's Literature New England, Inc.

2002: Philip Pullman, "So She Went Into the Garden"
Le Frak Hall, Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Flushing, NY.

2001: Susan Cooper, "Time and Again"
Scottish Rite Center, Portland, Ore., hosted by Multnomah County Library.

2000: Hazel Rochman, "A Stranger Comes to Town."
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

1999: Lillian N. Gerhardt, "Editorial License: On Library Selection Connections."
San Jose State University, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose, CA.

1998: Susan Hirschman, "Instead of a Lecture."
Richland County Public Library and the College of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

1997: Katherine Paterson, "In Search of Wonder."
Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD.

1996: Zena Sutherland, "A Life in Review."
Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX

1995: Leonard Everett Fisher, "Imaginings and Images."
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

1994: Margaret K. McElderry, "Across the Years, Across the Seas: Notes from an Errant Editor."
Coronado Public Library, CA

1993: Virginia Hamilton, "Everything of Value: Moral Realism in the Literature for Children."
Virginia Center for the Book, Richmond, VA

1992: Charlotte S. Huck, "Developing Lifetime Readers."
Montana Library Association annual conference, Bozeman, MT

1991: Iona Opie, "The Nature and Function of Children's Lore."
Library of Congress, Washington, DC

1990: Ashley Bryan, "A Tender Bridge."
Hosted By: New Orleans Public Library

1989: Margaret Mahy, "A Dissolving Ghost: Possible Operations of Truth in Children's Books and the Lives of Children."
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

1988: John Bierhorst, "Pushing up the Sun a Little."
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

1987: James Houston, "A Primitive View of the World."
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

1986: Aidan Chambers, "All of a Tremble to See His Danger."
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR

1985: Patricia Wrightson, "Stones into Pools. "
Indiana University, hosted by the Stone Hills Area Library Services Authority, Bloomington, IN

1984: Fritz Eichenberg, "Bell, Book and Candle."
Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center, Minneapolis, MN

1983: Leland B. Jacobs, "Children and the Voices of Literature."
Center for the Study of Literature for Young People at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1982: Dorothy Butler, "From Books to Buttons: Reflections From the Thirties to the Eighties."
Florida State University, Orlando, FL

1981: Virginia Betancourt, "Information: A Necessity for Survival: Strategies for the Promotion of Children's Books in a Developing Country."
Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX

1980: Horst Kunze, "German Children's Literature From Its Beginning to the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Perspective."
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

1979: Sheila Egoff, "Beyond the Garden Wall: Some Observations on Current Trends in Children's Literature."
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

1978: Uriel Ofek, "Tom and Laura from Right to Left: American Children's Books Experienced by Young Hebrew Readers."
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

1977: Shigeo Watanabe, "One of the Dozens."
Boise State University, Boise, ID

1976: Jean Fritz, "The Education of an American."
Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA

1975: Mollie Hunter, "Talent Is Not Enough."
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

1974 : Ivan Southall, "Real Adventure Belongs To Us."
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1973: Bettina Hürlimann, "Fortunate Moments in Children's Books."
University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

1972: Mary Ørvig, "One World in Children's Books"
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1971: John Rowe Townsend, "Standards of Criticism for Children's Literature."
Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

1970: Margery Fisher, "Rights and Wrongs."
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.