Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Children's Script

The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Children’s Script is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the writers of children’s television. Separate categories for series, specials, and longform have been created.

Winners and nominees

1950s

Children’s Script

1957: Thelma Robinson with Claire Kennedy and Warren Wilson – Lassie
*Lillie Hayward – The Mickey Mouse Club
*Dwight Babcock – Walt Disney Presents
1958: Kenneth A. Enochs – Circus Boy
*Claire Kennedy – Lassie
*Craig P. Gilbert – Let's Take a Trip
*Harold Mehling – Let's Take a Trip
*Yasha Frank – ''Rexall Special''

1970s

Children’s Script

1976: Yanna Kroyt Brandt – Vegetable Soup
*Tony Kayden – ABC Afterschool Special
*Herbert Baker and Sylvia Fine Kaye – CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People
*W. W. Lewis – Go USA
1977: Arthur Barron – ABC Afterschool Special
*W. W. Lewis – NBC Special Treat
*Jan Hartman – Bound for Freedom
*Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron – God's Country
1978: Art Wallace – Little Vic
*Jan Artman – ABC Afterschool Special
*Jim Inman – ABC Afterschool Special
*Jean Holloway – Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
1979: Irma Reichert and Daryl Warner – ABC Afterschool Special
*Jon Stone and Joseph A. Bailey – Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
*Barra Grant – ''NBC Special Treat''

1980s

Children’s Script

1980: Edward Pomerantz – NBC Special Treat
*Jeffrey Kindley – ABC Afterschool Special
*Liz Coe – Friends
*David R. Axelrod, Joseph A. Bailey, Andy Beckerman, Richard Camp, Sherry Coben, Bruce Hart, Carole Hart, and Marianne Meyer – Hot Hero Sandwich
1981: Paul A. Golding and David Irving – Wonderful World of Disney
*Kimmer Ringwald – CBS Library
*George Arthur Bloom – CBS Library
*Edward Pomerantz – ABC Weekend Specials
1982: W. W. Lewis – NBC Special Treat
*Jeffrey Kindley and Len Jenkin – ABC Afterschool Special
*Kimmer Ringwald – CBS Children’s Mystery Theatre
1983: Josef Anderson – CBS Afternoon Playhouse
*Buz Kohan – ABC Afterschool Special
*Jeri Taylor with Sydney Julien – ABC Afterschool Special
*Johnny Dawkins – ABC Afterschool Special
1984: Arthur Heinemann – ABC Afterschool Special
1984: Jon Stone and Joseph A. Bailey – Sesame Street
*Carole Hart, Bruce Hart, and Sherry Coben – NBC Special Treat
1985: Jeffrey Kindley – ABC Afterschool Special
*Stephen H. Foreman – ABC Afterschool Special
*Dianne Dixon – ABC Afterschool Special
*Norman Stiles – Sesame Street
1986: Charles Johnson and John Allman with Avon Kirkland – WonderWorks
*Jeanne Betancourt – ABC Afterschool Special
*Marisa Gioffre – Workin' For Peanuts
1987: Nancy Audley with Christine Burrill and Richard Soto – WonderWorks
*Kathryn J. Montgomery & Jeffrey Auerbach – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Mick Garris – Wonderful World of Disney
*Mark Rosman – Wonderful World of Disney
1988: Joseph Maurer – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Joanna Lee – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*James Orr and Jim Cruickshank – Wonderful World of Disney
1989: Blanche Hanalis – Hallmark Hall of Fame
*Victoria Hochberg – ABC Afterschool Special
*Joanna Lee – ABC Afterschool Special
*Paul W. Cooper – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Kathryn J. Montgomery with Steve Faigenbaum – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Everett Greenbaum and Harvey Bullock with Jim Shorts and Chris Solada – ''A Mouse, A Mystery and Me''

1990s

Children’s Script

1990: Bruce Harmon – ABC Afterschool Special
*Jeffrey Auerbach – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Paul W. Cooper – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Alan L. Gansberg – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Jon Stone – Sesame Street
1991: Josef Anderson – ABC Afterschool Special
1991: Cynthia A. Cherbak, Elizabeth Hansen, and Herbert Stein – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Harry Longstreet and Renee Longstreet – CBS Schoolbreak Special
1992: Betty G. Birney – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Michael Winship – 3-2-1 Contact
*Gordon Rayfield – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Paul W. Cooper – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Joanna Lee and Annie Caroline Schuler – CBS Schoolbreak Special
1993: Daryl Busby and Susan Amerikaner – Adventures in Wonderland
*Daryl Busby and Tom J. Astle – Adventures in Wonderland
*Bruce Harmon – Lifestories: Families in Crisis
*Carol Starr Schneider – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*David D. Connell, James F. Thurman, Michael Winship, and Susan Kim – Mathnet
1994: Robert L. Freedman – Lifestories: Families in Crisis
*Daryl Busby and Deborah Raznick – Adventures in Wonderland
*Daryl Busby and Tom J. Astle – Adventures in Wonderland
*Daryl Busby and Phil Baron – Adventures in Wonderland
*Daryl Busby and Daniel Benton – Adventures in Wonderland
*Bruce Harmon – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Willy Holtzman – Lifestories: Families in Crisis
*Michael Winship – Square One TV
1995: Bruce Harmon – Lifestories: Families in Crisis
1995: Carin Greenberg Baker with Kermit Frazier – Ghostwriter
1995: Lynn Montgomery – Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
1996: Gordon Rayfield – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Philip J. Walsh, Barry Friedman, and Mark Waxman, with Richard Albrecht and Casey Keller – Beakman's World
*Pamela Douglas – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Carol Starr Schneider – CBS Schoolbreak Special
*Tony Geiss – Sesame Street
1997: Dan M. Angel and Billy Brown – Goosebumps
*Courtney Flavin – ABC Afterschool Special
*Mollie Fermaglich – Allegra's Window
*Eric Weiner – Gullah Gullah Island
*Katherine Lawrence – Hypernauts
*George Daugherty and Janis Diamond – Peter and the Wolf
*Ronnie Krauss – Reading Rainbow
1998: Christine Ferraro and Tony Geiss – Elmo Saves Christmas
1998: David Steven Cohen – The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
*Tony Geiss – Sesame Street
*Gary Cooper and Allan Neuwirth – The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
*Will Ryan and Craig Shemin – The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
1999: Christine Ferraro – Sesame Street
*Jeff Schechter – Brink!
*Susan Kim – The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
*Jeff Stetson – Nickelodeon Sports Theater
*William Robertson and Alex Zamm – Wonderful World of Disney
*Robert L. Freedman – Wonderful World of Disney
*John Martel – ''The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss''

2000s

Children’s Script (2000-2005)

2000: Wendy Biller and Christopher Hawthorne – Sea People
*Eric Weiner – Are You Afraid of the Dark?
*Eric Tuchman – Dear America
*Susan Kim – The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
*Shari Goodhartz – Young Hercules
2001: Paris Qualles – The Color of Friendship
2001: Rod Serling – A Storm in Summer
*Mitchell Kriegman – Bear in the Big Blue House
*Joel Kauffmann and Donald C. Yost – Miracle in Lane 2
*Christine Ferraro – Sesame Street
2002: Anna Sandor – My Louisiana Sky
*Jacqueline Feather and David Seidler – By Dawn's Early Light
*Shari Goodhartz – Dragonheart: A New Beginning
*Julie Nathanson – Just Deal
*Terri Minsky – Lizzie McGuire
2003: Gordon Rayfield – Our America
*Christine Ferraro – Elmo's World: Happy Holidays!
*Glenn Gers – Off Season
*Mark Saltzman and Jeffrey Rubin – The Red Sneakers
2004: Paul W. Cooper – The Maldonado Miracle
*Joel Silverman, Joel Kauffmann, and Donald C. Yost – Full-Court Miracle
*Thom Eberhardt – I Was A Teenage Faust
*Willie Reale and Mark Palmer – Out There
2005: Wendy Kesselman – A Separate Peace
*Susan Shilliday – ''A Wrinkle in Time''

Long Form or Special

2006: Willy Holtzman – Edge of America
*Jessica Sharzer and Ann Young Frisbie – Speak
2007: not awarded
*Billy Brown and Dan Angel – The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It
2009: Polly Draper – ''The Naked Brothers Band''

Episodic and Specials

2006: Kevin Arkadie – Miracle's Boys
*Ronnie Krauss – Reading Rainbow
*Christine Ferraro – Sesame Street
2007: Alana Sanko – Just For Kicks
*DJ MacHale – Flight 29 Down
*David Steven Cohen – Phil of the Future
*Ronnie Krauss – Reading Rainbow
*Deborah Swisher – That's So Raven
2008: DJ MacHale – Flight 29 Down
*Polly Draper – The Naked Brothers Band
2009: Joseph Mazzarino – Elmo's Christmas Countdown
*Scott Gray and Rick Gitelson – Imagination Movers
*Arika Lisanne Mittman – ''South of Nowhere''

2010s

Long Form or Special

2010: Erik Patterson and Jessica Scott – Another Cinderella Story
2011: Julie Sherman Wolfe and Amy Talkington – Avalon High
2012: not awarded
2013: Anne De Young and Ron McGee – Girl vs. Monster
2014: not awarded
2015: not awarded
2016: Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott – Descendants
2017: Geri Cole and Ken Scarborough - Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas
*Nick Turner, Rex New, and Cameron Fay - Dance Camp
*Billy Brown and Dan Angel - ''R.L. Stine's Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls''

Episodic and Specials

2010: Max Burnett – The Troop
*Randi Barnes, Rick Gitelson, and Scott Gray – Imagination Movers
*Scott Gray, Randi Barnes, Rick Gitelson, and Michael G. Stern – Imagination Movers
*Joseph Mazzarino – Sesame Street
*Christine Ferraro – Sesame Street
*Dan Kopelman – True Jackson, VP
2011: Scott Gray, Randi Barnes, Rick Gitelson, and Michael G. Stern – Imagination Movers
*Andy Gordon – True Jackson, VP
2012: Leo Chu and Eric S. Garcia – Supah Ninjas
*Dan Schneider and Matt Fleckenstein – iCarly
*Jennifer Heftler, Randi Barnes, Rick Gitelson, Vivien Mejia, and Michael G. Stern – Imagination Movers
*Joseph Mazzarino – Sesame Street
*Max Burnett – The Troop
*Devin Bunje and Nick Stanton – Zeke and Luther
2013: Christine Ferraro – Sesame Street
2014: Vincent Brown – ANT Farm
*Jim Krieg – Spooksville
*Christine Ferraro – Sesame Street
2015: Bob Smiley – The Haunted Hathaways
*Matthew Nelson – Girl Meets World
*Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin – The Haunted Hathaways
2016: Gretchen Enders and Aminta Goyel – Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
*Mark Blutman – Girl Meets World
*Garrett Frawley and Brian Turner – Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
*David Anaxagoras and Luke Matheny – Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
*Laurie Parres – Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
2017: Laurie Parres - Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
*Joshua Jacobs and Michael Jacobs - Girl Meets World
*John-Paul Nickel - Just Add Magic
*Belinda Ward - ''Sesame Street''