Year
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Author
Award Winner
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Illustrator
Award Winner
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2010
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- Bad News
for Outlaws: The remakrable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
|
- My people
by Langston Hughes; illus. by Charles
R. Smith Jr.
|
2009
|
- We Are
the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
|
- The
Blacker the Berry by Floyd Cooper
|
2008
|
- Elijah of
Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
|
- Let it
Shine by Ashley Bryan
|
| 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
|
- The Land by Mildred Taylor
|
- Goin’ Someplace Special,
illustrated
by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
|
2001
|
- Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline
Woodson
|
|
2000
TOP
|
- Bud, Not Buddy by
Christopher Paul
Curtis
|
- In the Time of the Drums,
illustrated
by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson
|
1999
|
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- 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
|
- 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
|
- 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
TOP
|
- 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
|
- 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
|
|
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
|
- 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
TOP
|
- 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
|
- The Story of Stevie Wonder
by James Haskins
|
|
1976
|
- Duey’s Tale by Pearl
Bailey
|
|
1975
|
- The
Legend of Africana by
Dorothy Robinson
|
|
1974
|
- Ray Charles by Sharon
Bell Mathis; illustrated by George Ford
|
- Ray Charles,
illustrated by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis
|
1973
|
- I Never Had It Made: The
Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
|
|
1972
|
- 17 Black Artists by
Elton C. Fax
|
|
1971
|
- Black Troubador: Langston
Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
|
|
1970
TOP
|
- Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
|
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