Coretta Scott
King Award Winners
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Year
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Author Award Winner
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Illustrator
Award Winner
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2007
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- Copper
Sun by Sharon Draper
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- Moses:
when Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illus. by Kadir
Nelson, written by Carole boston Weatherford
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2006
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- Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
by
Julius Lester
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- Rosa illus. by Bryan
Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni
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2004
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- The First Part Last by
Angela Johnson
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- Beautiful Blackbird by
Ashley Bryan
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2003
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- Bronx Masquerade by Nikki
Grimes
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- Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story
of Aviator
Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Nikki
Grimes
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2002
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- The Land by Mildred Taylor
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- Goin’ Someplace Special,
illustrated
by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
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2001
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- Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline
Woodson
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2000
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- Bud, Not Buddy by
Christopher Paul
Curtis
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- In the Time of the Drums,
illustrated
by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson
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1999
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- i see the rhythm,
illustrated by
Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus
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1998
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- Forged by Fire by Sharon M.
Draper
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- In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall:
African
Americans Celebrating Fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe; text
by Alan Schroeder
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1997
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- Slam by Walter Dean Myers
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- Minty: A Story of Young Harriet
Tubman,
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder
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1996
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- Her Stories by Virginia
Hamilton
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- The Middle Passage: White Ships
Black Cargo
by Tom Feelings
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1995
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- Christmas in the Big House,
Christmas in
the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
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- The Creation, illustrated by
James
Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson
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1994
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- Toning the Sweep by Angela
Johnson
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- Soul Looks Back in Wonder,
illustrated
by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman
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1993
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- Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of
the
Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack
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- The Origin of Life on Earth: An
African
Creation Myth, illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by
David A. Anderson
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1992
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- Now is Your Time: The African
American
Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
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- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
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1991
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- The Road to Memphis by
Mildred D.
Taylor
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- Aida, illustrated by Leo and
Diane
Dillon; text by Leontyne Price
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1990
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- A Long Hard Journey: The Story of
the
Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
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- Nathaniel Talking,
illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield
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1989
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- Fallen Angels by
Walter Dean Myers
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- Mirandy and Brother Wind,
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
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1988
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- The Friendship by
Mildred L. Taylor
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- Mufaro’s Beautiful
Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
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1987
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- Justin and the Best
Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
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- Half a Moon and One Whole
Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon
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1986
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- The People Could Fly:
American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Leo
and Diane Dillon
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- The Patchwork Quilt,
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy
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1985
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- Motown and Didi by
Walter Dean Myers
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1984
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- Everett Anderson’s Good-bye
by Lucille Clifton
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- My Mama Needs Me,
illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter
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1983
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- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Virginia Hamilton
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- Black Child by Peter
Mugabane
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1982
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- Let the Circle Be Unbroken
by Mildred D. Taylor
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- Mother Crocodile: An Uncle
Amadou Tale from Sengal, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Rosa
Guy
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1981
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- This Life by Sidney
Poitier
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- Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
by Ashley Bryan
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1980
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- The Young Landlords by
Walter Dean Myers
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- Cornrows, illustrated
by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough
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1979
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- Escape to Freedom by
Ossie Davis
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- Something on My Mind,
illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes
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1978
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- Africa Dream by Eloise
Greenfield, illustrated by Carole Bayard
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- Africa Dream,
illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield
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1977
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- The Story of Stevie Wonder
by James Haskins
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1976
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- Duey’s Tale by Pearl
Bailey
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1975
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- The
Legend of Africana by
Dorothy Robinson
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1974
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- Ray Charles by Sharon
Bell Mathis; illustrated by George Ford
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- Ray Charles,
illustrated by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis
- (Note: Prior to
1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only)
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1973
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- I Never Had It Made: The
Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
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1972
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- 17 Black Artists by
Elton C. Fax
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1971
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- Black Troubador: Langston
Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
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1970
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- Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
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Coretta
Scott King Honor Books
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Year
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Author Honor Books |
Illustrator Honor Books
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2007
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- The Road to Paris by Nikki
Grimes
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- Jazz illus. by Christopher
Myers,
written by Walter Dean Myers
- Poetry for Young People: Langston
Hughes
illus. by Benny Andrews
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2006
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- Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century
American Girl
by Tonya Bolden
- Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
- A Wreath for Emmett Till by
Marilyn
Nelson
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- Brothers in Hope: The Story of
the Lost
Boys of Sudan written and illus. by R. Gregory
Christie
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2005
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- The Legend of Buddy Bush by
Shelia P.
Moses
- Who Am I without Him?: Short
Stories about
Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake
- Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission
Requiem
by Marilyn Nelson
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- God Bless the Child,
illustrated by
Jerry Pinkney; written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr
- The People Could Fly: The Picture
Book,
illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon;written by Virginia Hamilton
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2004
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- Days of Jubilee: The End of
Slavery in the
United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
- Locomotion by Jacqueline
Woodson
- The Battle of Jericho by
Sharon Draper
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- Almost to Freedom,
illustrated by
Colin Bootman; text by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
- Thunder Rose, illustrated by
Kadir
Nelson; text by Jerdine Nolen
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2003
|
- The Red Rose Box by Brenda
Woods
- Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story
of Aviator
Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
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- Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s
Bojangles—Think of
That, illustrated and written by Leo and Diane Dillion
- Visiting Langston,
illustrated by
Bryan Collier; text by Willie Perdomo
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2002
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- Money-Hungry by Sharon G.
Flake
- Carver: A Life in Poems by
Marilyn
Nelson
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- Martin’s Big Words,
illustrated by
Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rappoport
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2001
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- Let It Shine! Stories of Black
Women
Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen
Alcorn
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- Freedom River, illustrated
by Bryan
Collier; text by Doreen Rapport
- Only Passing Through: The Story
of
Sojourner Truth, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; text by Anne
Rockwell
- Virgie Goes to School with Us
Boys,
illustrated by E.B. Lewis; text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
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2000
|
- Francie by Karen English
- Black Hands, White Sails: The
Story of
African-American Whalers by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
- Monster by Walter Dean
Myers
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- My Rows and Piles of Coins,
illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M. Mollel
- Black Cat by Christopher
Myers
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1999
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- Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki
Grimes
- Breaking Ground, Breaking
Silence: The
Story of New York’s African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary
McGowan
- The Other Side: Shorter Poems
by
Angela Johnson
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- I Have Heard of a Land,
illustrated by
Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas
- The Bat Boy and His Violin,
illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis
- Duke Ellington: The Piano
Prince and His
Orchestra, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Andrea Davis
Pinkney
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1998
|
- Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes
of the
Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins
- I Thought My Soul Would Rise
and Fly: The
Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen
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- Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African
American
Poetry by Ashley Bryan
- Harlem, illustrated by
Christopher
Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers
- The Hunterman and the Crocodile
by
Baba Wagué Diakité
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1997
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- Rebels Against Slavery: American
Slave
Revolts by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
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- The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by
African
American Children, illustrated by Gregorie Christie; edited by
Davida Adedjouma
- Running the Road to ABC,
illustrated
by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture
- Neeny Coming, Neeny Going,
illustrated
by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English
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1996
|
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
by
Christopher Paul Curtis
- Like Sisters on the Homefront
by Rita
Williams-Garcia
- From the Notebooks of Melanin
Sun by
Jacqueline Woodson
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- Her Stories, illustrated by
Leo and
Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton
- The Faithful Friend,
illustrated by
Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci
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1995
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- The Captive by Joyce Hansen
- I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
by
Jacqueline Woodson
- Black Diamond: Story of the
Negro Baseball
League by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
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- The Singing Man, illustrated
by Terea
Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis
- Meet Danitra Brown,
illustrated by
Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes
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1994
|
- Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea
by
Joyce Carol Thomas; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Malcolm X: By Any Means
Necessary by
Walter Dean Myers
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- Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea,
illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas
- Uncle Jed’s Barbershop,
illustrated by
James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell
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1993
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- Mississippi Challenge by
Mildred Pitts
Walter
- Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a
Woman? by
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
- Somewhere in the Darkness
by Walter
Dean Myers
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- Little Eight John,
illustrated by Wil
Clay; text by Jan Wahl
- Sukey and the Mermaid,
illustrated by
Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci
- Working Cotton,
illustrated by Carole
Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams
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1992
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- Night on Neighborhood Street
by Eloise
Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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- All Night, All Day: A Child’s
First Book of
African American Spirituals, illustrated and selected by Ashley
Bryan
- Night on Neighborhood Street,
illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, text by Eloise Greenfield
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1991
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- Black Dance in America by James
Haskins
- When I Am Old with You by
Angela
Johnson
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1990
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- Nathaniel Talking by Eloise
Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- The Bells of Christmas by
Virginia
Hamilton
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and
the Freedom
Movement by Lillie Patterson
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- The Talking Eggs,
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci
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1989
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- A Thief in the Village and
Other Stories by James Berry
- Anthony Burns: The Defeat
and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton
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- Under the Sunday Tree,
illustrated by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield
- Storm in the Night,
illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz
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1988
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- An Enchanted Hair Tale
by Alexis De Veaux
- The Tales of Uncle Remus:
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester
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- What a Morning! The
Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan;
selected by John Langstaff
- The Invisible Hunters: A
Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, illustrated by
JoeSam.; compiled by Harriet Rohmer
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1987
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- Lion and the Ostrich Chicks
and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
- Which Way Freedom by
Joyce Hansen
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- Lion and the Ostrich Chicks
and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
- C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat
Cummings
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1986
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- Junius Over Far by
Virginia Hamilton
- Trouble’s Child by
Mildred Pitts Walter
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- The People Could Fly:
American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon;
text by Virginia Hamilton
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1985
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- Circle of Gold by
Candy Dawson Boyd
- A Little Love by
Virginia Hamilton
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1984
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- The Magical Adventures of
Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
- Lena Horne by James
Haskins
- Bright Shadow by Joyce
Carol Thomas
- Because We Are by
Mildred Pitts Walter
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1983
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- This
Strange New Feeling by
Julius Lester
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- All the Colors of the Race,
illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff
- I’m Going to Sing: Black
American Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan
- Just Us Women,
illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines
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1982
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- Rainbow Jordan by
Alice Childress
- Lou in the Limelight
by Kristin Hunter
- Mary: An Autobiography
by Mary E. Mebane
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- Daydreamers,
illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield
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1981
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- Don’t Explain: A Song of
Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux
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- Grandmama’s Joy,
illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Eloise Greenfield
- Count on Your Fingers
African Style, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Claudia
Zaslavsky
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1980
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- Movin’ Up by Berry
Gordy
- Childtimes: A
Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones
Little
- Andrew Young: Young Man
with a Mission by James Haskins
- James Van Der Zee: The
Picture Takin’ Man by James Haskins
- Let the Lion Eat Straw
by Ellease Southerland
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1979
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- Benjamin Banneker by
Lillie Patterson
- I Have a Sister, My Sister
is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson
- Justice and Her Brothers
by Virginia Hamilton
- Skates of Uncle Richard
by Carol Fenner
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1978
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- The Days When the Animals
Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J.
Faulkner
- Marvin and Tige by
Frankcina Glass
- Mary McCleod Bethune
by Eloise Greenfield
- Barbara Jordan by
James Haskins
- Coretta Scott King by
Lillie Patterson
- Portia: The Life of Portia
Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth
Ann Stewart
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