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  • Coretta Scott King Award Winners
    Year
    		 Author Award Winner
    		 Illustrator Award Winner
    2007
    • Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
    • Moses: when Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illus. by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole boston Weatherford
    2006
    • Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
    • Rosa illus. by Bryan Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni
    2004
    • The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
    • Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
    2003
    • Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
    • Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Nikki Grimes
    2002


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    • The Land by Mildred Taylor
    • Goin’ Someplace Special, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
    2001
    • Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
    • Uptown by Bryan Collier
    2000
    • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
    • In the Time of the Drums, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson
    1999
    • Heaven by Angela Johnson
    • i see the rhythm, illustrated by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus
    1998
    • Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
    • In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder
    1997


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    • Slam by Walter Dean Myers
    • Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder
    1996
    • Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton
    • The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings
    1995
    • Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
    • The Creation, illustrated by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson
    1994
    • Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
    • Soul Looks Back in Wonder, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman
    1993
    • Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack
    • The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson
    1992


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    • Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
    • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
    1991
    • The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
    • Aida, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price
    1990
    • A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
    • Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield
    1989
    • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
    • Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
    1988
    • The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor
    • Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
    1987


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    • Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
    • Half a Moon and One Whole Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon
    1986
    • The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
    • The Patchwork Quilt, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy
    1985
    • Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
    • No award
    1984
    • Everett Anderson’s Good-bye by Lucille Clifton
    • My Mama Needs Me, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter
    1983
    • Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
    • Black Child by Peter Mugabane
    1982


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    • Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
    • Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy
    1981
    • This Life by Sidney Poitier
    • Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
    1980
    • The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
    • Cornrows, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough
    1979
    • Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis
    • Something on My Mind, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes
    1978
    • Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Carole Bayard
    • Africa Dream, illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield
    1977

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    • The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
    • No award
    1976
    • Duey’s Tale by Pearl Bailey
    • No award
    1975
    • The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson
    • No award
    1974
    • Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; illustrated by George Ford
    • Ray Charles, illustrated by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis
    • (Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only)
    1973
    • I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
    1972
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    • 17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax


    1971
    • Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
    1970
    • Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
    Coretta Scott King Honor Books
    Year
    		 Author Honor Books Illustrator Honor Books
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    • The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
    • Jazz illus. by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers
    • Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes illus. by Benny Andrews
    2006
    • Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
    • Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
    • A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
    • Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan written and illus. by R. Gregory Christie
    2005
    • 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
    • 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
    2004
    • 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
    • Almost to Freedom, illustrated by Colin Bootman; text by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
    • Thunder Rose, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; text by Jerdine Nolen
    2003
    • The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
    • Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
    • 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
    2002


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    • Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
    • Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
    • Martin’s Big Words, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rappoport
    2001
    • Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
    • 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
    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
    • My Rows and Piles of Coins, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M. Mollel
    • Black Cat by Christopher Myers
    1999
    • 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
    • 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
    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
    • 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
    1997




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    • Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
    • 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
    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
    • Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton
    • The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci
    1995
    • 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
    • The Singing Man, illustrated by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis
    • Meet Danitra Brown, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes
    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
    • 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
    1993
    • 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
    • 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
    1992



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    • Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
    • 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
    1991
    • Black Dance in America by James Haskins
    • When I Am Old with You by Angela Johnson
    • No award
    1990
    • 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
    • The Talking Eggs, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci
    1989
    • A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry
    • Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton
    • Under the Sunday Tree, illustrated by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield
    • Storm in the Night, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz
    1988
    • An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
    • The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester
    • 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
    1987


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    • Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
    • Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen
    • Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
    • C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings
    1986
    • Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
    • Trouble’s Child by Mildred Pitts Walter
    • The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton
    1985
    • Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
    • A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton
    • No award
    1984
    • 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
    • No award
    1983
    • This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
    • 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
    1982


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    • Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
    • Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
    • Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane
    • Daydreamers, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield
    1981
    • Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux
    • 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
    1980
    • 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
    • No award
    1979
    • 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
    • No award
    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
    • No award