Given to African American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream.
The award is designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood. 2007 winners | More about the Coretta Scott King Book Awards
These books affirm new talent and offer visibility to excellence in writing or illustration at the beginning of a career as a published book creator. 2007 winners | More about the John Steptoe Award
Do you need books for an after-school program, family literacy project, or homeless shelter? Do you operate a small underfunded school or public library? Find out how you can receive a number of books through the Book Grant. | 2007 winners
Copper Sun
published by Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
written by Carole Boston Weatherford, published by Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Standing Against the Wind
published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Road to Paris
published by G.P. Putnum’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Jazz
written by Walter Dean Myers, published by Holiday House, Inc.
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad, published by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
The Art Institute of Chicago's exhibit features multiple works, lent by selected illustrator winnters of the Coretta Scott King Award. The works by Bryan Collier, Jerry Pinkney, Ashley Bryan, Kadir Nelson, B. Gregory Christie, Colin Boatman, and E.B. Lewis, are grand, in two galleries, and in the direct walkway of probably 100,000 visitors before it closes August 7, 2006. Each set of illustrations includes the book itself on a low table for children to see the transfer from canvas to book. It is a breath-taking opportunity to see King illustrators' work so elegantly shared with children. Find more information at www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/family.html.