Since the Buckeye Book Award's beginning in 1981, children all over Ohio have nominated for their favorites and then voted on that roster in the following year. To date, there have been a total of 42 winners by many well known authors.
1993
K-2

The Very Quiet Cricket
by Eric Carle (Philomel, 1990)
3-5

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones
by Alvin Schwartz, (Harper Collins, 1991)
6-8

Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown, 1990)
1995
K-2

The Stinky Cheese Man
by Jon Scieszka, (Viking, 1992)
3-5

Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Dell, 1991)
6-8

Say Cheese and Die
by R. L. Stine (Scholastic, 1992)
1997
K-2

Dogzilla
by Dav Pilkey (Harcourt, Brace, 1993)
3-5

The Haunted Mask II
by R.L. Stine (Scholastic, 1995)
6-8

The Giver
by Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin, 1993)