Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (published by Scholastic)
Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan (published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
November Blues by Sharon M. Draper (published by Atheneum Books for Young Adults)
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier (published by Candlewick Press)
The Secret Olivia Told Me by Nancy Devard, written by N. Joy (published by Just Us Books)
Jazz On A Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon (published by Scholastic Blue Sky Press)
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (published by Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illus. by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (published by Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)
The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes, (published by G.P. Putnum’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
Jazz illus. by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers (published by Holiday House, Inc.)
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes illus. by Benny Andrews, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad (published by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.)
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester (published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden (published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers)
Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes (published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson Illustrated by Philippe Lardy (published by Houghton Mifflin Company)
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier (published by Henry Holt and Company)
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudanby R. Gregory Christie, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (published by Lee and Low Books)
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison (Houghton Mifflin)
The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
Ellington Was Not a Street, illustrated by Kadir A. Nelson; text by Ntozake Shange (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
God Bless the Child, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's)
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (Grosset & Dunlap)
The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Almost to Freedom, illustrated by Colin Bootman; text by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)
Thunder Rose, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; text by Jerdine Nolen (Silver Whistle)
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books for Young Readers)
The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods (G. P. Putnam’s Sons)
Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes (Orchard Books/Scholastic)
Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Nikki Grimes (Orchard Books/Scholastic)
Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That, illustrated and written by Leo and Diane Dillion (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic)
Visiting Langston, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Willie Perdomo (Henry Holt & Co.)
The Land by Mildred Taylor (Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam)
Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
Goin’ Someplace Special, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum)
Martin’s Big Words, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rappoport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Gulliver Books, Harcourt)
Uptown by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt)
Freedom River, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rapport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; text by Anne Rockwell (Random House)
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, illustrated by E.B. Lewis; text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Francie by Karen English (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic Press)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
In the Time of the Drums, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)
My Rows and Piles of Coins, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion Books)
Black Cat by Christopher Myers (Scholastic)
Heaven by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books)
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan (Henry Holt and Company)
The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson (Orchard Books)
i see the rhythm, illustrated by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus (Children’s Book Press)
I Have Heard of a Land, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
The Bat Boy and His Violin, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster)
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children)
Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion)
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low)
Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
Harlem, illustrated by Christopher Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wagué Diakité (Scholastic)
Slam by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, illustrated by Gregorie Christie; edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.)
Running the Road to ABC, illustrated by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, illustrated by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia (Delacorte)
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
The Captive by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)
Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
The Creation, illustrated by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House)
The Singing Man, illustrated by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House)
Meet Danitra Brown, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)
Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Soul Looks Back in Wonder, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins)
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, illustrated by James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)
Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack (Knopf)
Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (Bradbury)
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights)
Little Eight John, illustrated by Wil Clay; text by Jan Wahl (Lodestar)
Sukey and the Mermaid, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Four Winds)
Working Cotton, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)
Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial)
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Crown)
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals, illustrated and selected by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Night on Neighborhood Street, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)
The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
Black Dance in America by James Haskins (Crowell)
When I Am Old with You by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
Aida, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price (Harcourt)
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Walker)
Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly)
The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson (Facts on File)
Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly)
The Talking Eggs, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci (Dial)
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry (Orchard)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)
Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
Under the Sunday Tree, illustrated by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield (Harper)
Storm in the Night, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz (Harper)
The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor (Dial)
An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester (Dial)
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe (Lothrop)
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan; selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan)
The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, illustrated by JoeSam.; compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al (Children’s Press)
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen (Walker)
Half a Moon and One Whole Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon (Macmillan)
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings (Lothrop)
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)
Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)
Trouble’s Child by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)
The Patchwork Quilt, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy (Dial)
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)
Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)
Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd (Apple/Scholastic)
A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
No award
Everett Anderson’s Good-bye by Lucille Clifton (Holt)
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled by Coretta Scott King (Newmarket Press)
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)
Lena Horne by James Haskins (Coward-McCann)
Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas (Avon)
Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter
My Mama Needs Me, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester (Dial)
Black Child by Peter Mugabane (Knopf)
All the Colors of the Race, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop)
I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Just Us Women, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines (Harper)
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress (Coward-McCann)
Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter (Scribner)
Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane (Viking)
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy (Delacorte)
Daydreamers, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)
This Life by Sidney Poitier (Knopf)
Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Grandmama’s Joy, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Collins)
Count on Your Fingers African Style, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Claudia Zaslavsky (Crowell)
The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)
Movin’ Up by Berry Gordy (Harper)
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little (Harper)
Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission by James Haskins (Lothrop)
James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man by James Haskins (Dodd)
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (Scribner)
Cornrows, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough (Coward-McCann)
Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis (Viking)
Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson (Abingdon)
I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson (Harper)
Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton (Greenwillow)
Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner (Random)
Something on My Mind, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes (Dial)
Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Carole Bayard (Crowell)
The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner (Follett)
Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass (St. Martin’s)
Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)
Barbara Jordan by James Haskins (Dial)
Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart (Doubleday)
Africa Dream, illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)
The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins (Lothrop)
No award
Duey’s Tale by Pearl Bailey (Harcourt)
No award
The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson (Johnson Publishing)
No award
Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; illustrated by George Ford (Crowell)
Ray Charles, illustrated by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis (Crowell)
(Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only)
I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett (Putnam)
17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax (Dodd)
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins (Rand McNally)
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)