Coretta Scott King Book Award
Complete List of Recipients |
Award-Winning Authors 1970–2007 |
| Adoff, Jaime |
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Jimi & Me |
New Talent |
2006 |
| Angelou, Maya |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Honor |
1971 |
| Bailey, Pearl |
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Duey’s Tale |
Winner |
1976 |
| Berry, James |
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A Thief in the Village and Other Stories |
Honor |
1989 |
| Bolden, Tonya |
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Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl |
Honor |
2006 |
| Blake, Clarence |
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Quiz Book on Black America |
Honor |
1977 |
| Boyd, Candy Dawson |
| |
Circle of Gold |
Honor |
1985 |
| Bryan, Ashley |
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Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales |
Honor |
1987 |
| Bush, Terri |
| |
The Voice of the Children |
Honor |
1971 |
| Childress, Alice |
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Rainbow Jordan |
Honor |
1982 |
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A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich |
Honor |
1974
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| Chisholm, Shirley |
| |
Unbought and Unbossed |
Honor |
1971 |
| Clifton, Lucille |
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Everett Anderson’s Goodbye |
Winner |
1984 |
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Everett Anderson’s Friend |
Honor |
1977 |
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Don’t You Remember? |
Honor |
1974 |
| Crane, Louise |
| |
Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women |
Honor |
1974 |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul |
| |
Bud, Not Buddy |
Winner |
2000 |
| |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 |
Honor |
1996 |
| Davis, Ossie |
| |
Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass |
Winner |
1979 |
| DeVeaux, Alexis |
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An Enchanted Hair Tale |
Honor |
1988 |
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Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holliday |
Honor |
1981 |
| Draper, Sharon |
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Copper Sun |
Winner |
2007 |
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The Battle of Jericho |
Honor |
2004 |
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Forged by Fire |
Winner |
1998 |
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Tears of a Tiger |
New Talent |
1995 |
| Duckett, Aldred |
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I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson |
Winner |
1973 |
| English, Karen |
| |
Francie |
Honor |
2000 |
| Evans, Mari |
| |
I Am a Black Woman |
Honor |
1971 |
| Faulkner, William J. |
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The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be |
Honor |
1978 |
| Fax, Elton |
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17 Black Artists |
Winner |
1972 |
| Fenner, Carol |
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The Skates of Uncle Richard |
Honor |
1979 |
| Flake, Sharon |
| |
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives |
Honor |
2005 |
| |
Money-Hungry |
Honor |
2002 |
| |
The Skin I’m In |
New Talent |
1999 |
| Glass, Frankcina |
| |
Marvin and Tige |
Honor |
1978 |
| Gordy, Berry, Sr. |
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Movin’ on Up: Pop Gordy Tells His Story |
Honor |
1980 |
| Graham, Lorenz |
| |
Every Man Heart Lay Down |
Honor |
1971 |
| Graham, Shirley |
| |
Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa |
Honor |
1976 |
| Greenfield, Eloise |
| |
Night on Neighborhood Street |
Honor |
1992 |
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Nathaniel Talking |
Honor |
1990 |
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Child Times: A Three-Generation Memoir |
Honor |
1980 |
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Africa Dream |
Winner |
1978 |
| |
Mary McLeod Bethune |
Honor |
1978 |
| |
Paul Robeson |
Honor |
1976 |
| Grimes, Nikki |
| |
The Road to Paris |
Honor |
2007 |
| |
Bronx Masquerade |
Winner |
2003 |
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Dark Sons |
Honor |
2006 |
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Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman |
Honor |
2003 |
| |
Jazmin’s Notebook |
Honor |
1999 |
| Groom, Gladys |
| |
Black Means . . . |
Honor |
1971 |
| Grossman, Barney |
| |
Black Means . . . |
Honor |
1971 |
| Hamilton, Virginia |
| |
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales |
Winner |
1996 |
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The Bells of Christmas |
Honor |
1990 |
| |
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave |
Honor |
1989 |
| |
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
Winner |
1986 |
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Junius over Far |
Honor |
1986 |
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A Little Love |
Honor |
1985 |
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The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl |
Honor |
1984 |
| |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush |
Winner |
1983 |
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Justice and Her Brothers |
Honor |
1979 |
| Hansen, Joyce |
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Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground |
Honor |
1999 |
| |
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl |
Honor |
1998 |
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The Captive |
Honor |
1995 |
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Which Way Freedom? |
Honor |
1987 |
| Haskins, James |
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Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement |
Honor |
1998 |
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Black Dance in America: A History through Its People |
Honor |
1991 |
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Lena Horne |
Honor |
1984 |
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Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission |
Honor |
1980 |
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James Van DerZee: The Picture Takin’ Man
| Honor |
1980 |
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Barbara Jordan |
Honor |
1978 |
| |
The Story of Stevie Wonder |
Winner |
1977 |
| Hathaway, Barbara |
| |
Missy Violet and Me |
New Talent |
2005 |
| Hunter, Kristin |
| |
Lou in the Limelight |
Honor |
1982 |
| |
Guests in the Promised Land |
Honor |
1974 |
| Johnson, Angela |
| |
The First Part Last |
Winner |
2004 |
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Heaven |
Winner |
1999 |
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The Other Side |
Honor |
1999 |
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Toning the Sweep |
Winner |
1994 |
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When I Am Old with You |
Honor |
1991 |
| Jones, Traci L. |
| |
Standing Against the Wind |
New Talent |
2007 |
| Jordan, June |
| |
The Voice of the Children |
Honor |
1971 |
| Lester, Julius |
| |
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit |
Honor |
1988 |
| |
This Strange New Feeling |
Honor |
1983 |
| |
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue |
Winner |
2006 |
| Little, Lessie Jones |
| |
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir |
Honor |
1980 |
| McDonald, Janet |
| |
Chill Wind |
New Talent |
2003 |
| McGowan, Gary |
| |
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground |
Honor |
1999 |
| McKissack, Patricia |
| |
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural |
Winner |
1993 |
| McKissack, Patricia C., and Fredrick L. McKissack |
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Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States |
Honor |
2004 |
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Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
| Honor |
2000 |
| |
Rebels against Slavery: American Slave Revolts |
Honor |
1997 |
| |
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters |
Winner |
1995 |
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Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman |
Honor |
1993 |
| |
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter |
Winner |
1990 |
| McKissack, Patricia, and Fredrick McKissack Jr. |
| |
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues |
Honor |
1995 |
| Martin, Donald F. |
| |
Quiz Book on Black America |
Honor |
1977 |
| Mathis, Sharon Bell |
| |
Ray Charles |
Winner |
1974 |
| Mebane, Mary E. |
| |
Mary: An Autobiography |
Honor |
1982 |
| Morrison, Toni |
| |
Remember: The Journey to School Integration |
Winner |
2005 |
| Moses, Sheila P. |
| |
The Legend of Buddy Bush
|
Honor |
2005 |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
| |
Monster |
Honor |
2000 |
| |
Slam! |
Winner |
1997 |
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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary |
Honor |
1994 |
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Somewhere in the Darkness |
Honor |
1993 |
| |
Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom |
Winner |
1992 |
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Fallen Angels |
Winner |
1989 |
| |
Motown and Didi: A Love Story |
Winner |
1985 |
| |
The Young Landlords |
Winner |
1980 |
| |
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff |
Honor |
1976 |
| Nagenda, John |
| |
Mukasa |
Honor |
1974 |
| Nelson, Marilyn |
| |
A Wreath for Emmett Till |
Honor |
2006 |
| |
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem |
Honor |
2005 |
| |
Carver: A Life in Poems |
Honor |
2002 |
| Patterson, Lillie |
| |
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement |
Honor |
1990 |
| |
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America |
Honor |
1979 |
| |
Coretta Scott King |
Honor |
1978 |
| |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace |
Winner |
1970 |
| Peters, Margaret |
| |
The Ebony Book of Black Achievement |
Honor |
1971 |
| Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse |
| |
I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf |
Honor |
1979 |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
| |
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters |
Honor |
2001 |
| Poitier, Sidney |
| |
This Life |
Winner |
1981 |
| Robinson, Dorothy |
| |
The Legend of Africania |
Winner |
1975 |
| Rollins, Charlemae |
| |
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes |
Winner |
1971 |
| Smith, Hope Anita |
| |
The Way a Door Closes |
New Talent |
2004 |
| Southerland, Ellease |
| |
Let the Lion Eat Straw |
Honor |
1980 |
| Southgate, Martha |
| |
Another Way to Dance |
New Talent |
1997
|
| Stewart, Ruth Ann |
| |
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington |
Honor |
1978 |
| Taylor, Mildred |
| |
The Land |
Winner |
2002 |
| |
The Road to Memphis |
Winner |
1991 |
| |
The Friendship |
Winner |
1988 |
| |
Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
Winner |
1982 |
| |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Honor |
1977 |
| |
Song of the Trees |
Honor |
1977 |
| Thomas, Joyce Carol |
| |
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea |
Honor |
1994 |
| |
Bright Shadow |
Honor |
1984 |
| Udry, Janice |
| |
Mary Jo’s Grandmother |
Honor |
1971 |
| Walter, Mildred Pitts |
| |
Mississippi Challenge |
Honor |
1993 |
| |
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World |
Winner |
1987 |
| |
Trouble’s Child |
Honor |
1986 |
| |
Because We Are |
Honor |
1984 |
| Williams-Garcia, Rita |
| |
Like Sisters on the Home Front |
Honor |
1996 |
| Woods, Brenda |
| |
The Red Rose Box |
Honor |
2003 |
| Woodson, Jacqueline |
| |
Locomotion |
Honor |
2004 |
| |
Miracle’s Boys |
Winner |
2001 |
| |
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
Honor |
1996 |
| |
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This |
Honor |
1995 |
Award-Winning Illustrators 1970–2007 |
| Andrews, Benny |
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Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes |
Honor |
2007 |
| Bootman, Colin |
| |
Almost to Freedom |
Honor |
2004 |
Brown, Elbrite |
| |
My Family Plays Music |
New Talent |
2004 |
Bryan, Ashley |
| |
Beautiful Blackbird |
Winner |
2004 |
| |
Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry |
Honor |
1998 |
| |
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals |
Honor |
1992 |
| |
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals |
Honor |
1988 |
| |
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales |
Honor |
1987 |
| |
I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals |
Honor |
1983 |
| |
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum |
Winner |
1981 |
Byard, Carole |
| |
Working Cotton |
Honor |
1993 |
| |
Grandma’s Joy |
Honor |
1981 |
| |
Cornrows |
Winner |
1980 |
| |
Africa Dream |
Winner |
1978 |
Christie, R. Gregory |
| |
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan |
Honor |
2006 |
| |
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth |
Honor |
2001 |
| |
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children |
Honor |
1997
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| Clay, Wil |
| |
Little Eight John |
Honor |
1993 |
| Collier, Bryan |
| |
Rosa |
Winner |
2006 |
| |
Visiting Langston |
Honor |
2003 |
| |
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
Honor |
2002 |
| |
Uptown |
Winner |
2001 |
| |
Freedom River |
Honor |
2001 |
Cooper, Floyd |
| |
I Have Heard of a Land |
Honor |
1999 |
| |
Meet Danitra Brown |
Honor |
1995 |
| |
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea |
Honor |
1994 |
Cummings, Pat |
| |
Storm in the Night |
Honor |
1989 |
| |
C.L.O.U.D.S |
Honor |
1987 |
| |
My Mama Needs Me |
Winner |
1984 |
| |
Just Us Women |
Honor |
1983 |
Diakité, Baba Wagué |
| |
The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale |
Honor |
1998 |
Dillon, Leo and Diane |
| |
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book |
Honor |
2005 |
| |
Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That! |
Honor |
2003 |
| |
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales |
Honor |
1996 |
| |
Aïda |
Winner |
1991 |
| |
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
Honor |
1986 |
DuBurke, Randy |
| |
The Moon Ring |
New Talent |
2003 |
Feelings, Tom |
| |
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo |
Winner |
1996 |
| |
Soul Looks Back in Wonder |
Winner |
1994 |
| |
Daydreamers |
Honor |
1982 |
| |
Something’s on My Mind |
Winner |
1979 |
Ferguson, Mr. Amos |
| |
Under the Sunday Tree |
Honor |
1989 |
Ford, George |
| |
Ray Charles |
Winner |
1974 |
Gilchrist, Jan Spivey |
| |
Night on Neighborhood Street |
Honor |
1992 |
| |
Nathaniel Talking |
Winner |
1990 |
| JoeSam. |
| |
The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua/
Los Cazadores Invisibles: Una Leyenda de los Indios Miskitos de Nicaragua |
Honor |
1988 |
| Lagarrigue, Jerome |
| |
Freedom Summer |
New Talent |
2002 |
| Lewis, E. B. |
| |
Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman |
Winner |
2003 |
| |
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys |
Honor |
2001 |
| |
My Rows and Piles of Coins |
Honor |
2000 |
| |
The Bat Boy and His Violin |
Honor |
1999 |
Magubane, Peter |
| |
Black Child |
Winner |
1983 |
| Morrison, Frank |
| |
Jazzy Miz Mozetta |
New Talent |
2005 |
Myers, Christopher |
| |
Jazz |
Honor |
2007 |
| |
Black Cat |
Honor |
2000 |
| |
Harlem |
Honor |
1998 |
Nelson, Kadir |
| |
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom |
Winner |
2007 |
| |
Ellington Was Not a Street |
Winner |
2005 |
| |
Thunder Rose |
Honor |
2004 |
Pinkney, Brian |
| |
In the Time of the Drums |
Winner |
2000 |
| |
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra |
Honor |
1999 |
| |
The Faithful Friend |
Honor |
1996 |
| |
Sukey and the Mermaid |
Honor |
1993 |
Pinkney, Jerry |
| |
God Bless the Child |
Honor |
2005 |
| |
Goin’ Someplace Special |
Winner |
2002 |
| |
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
Winner |
1997 |
| |
The Talking Eggs |
Honor |
1990 |
| |
Mirandy and Brother Wind |
Winner |
1989 |
| |
Half a Moon and One Whole Star |
Winner |
1987 |
| |
The Patchwork Quilt |
Winner |
1986 |
| |
Count on Your Fingers African Style |
Honor |
1981 |
Ransome, James E. |
| |
The Creation |
Winner |
1995 |
| |
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop |
Honor |
1994 |
Ringgold, Faith |
| |
Tar Beach |
Winner |
1992 |
Ruffins, Reynolds |
| |
Running the Road to ABC |
Honor |
1997 |
Saint James, Synthia |
| |
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going |
Honor |
1997 |
Shaffer, Terea |
| |
The Singing Man |
Honor |
1995 |
Shange, Ntozake |
| |
Ellington Was Not a Street |
Winner |
2005 |
| Steptoe, Javaka |
| |
In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers |
Winner |
1998 |
Steptoe, John |
| |
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale |
Winner |
1988 |
| |
All the Colors of the Race |
Honor |
1983 |
| |
Mama Crocodile. Maman-Caiman |
Winner |
1982 |
Velasquez, Eric |
| |
The Piano Man |
New Talent |
1999 |
Wilson, Kathleen Atkins |
| |
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth |
Winner |
1993 |
Wood, Michele |
| |
I See the Rhythm |
Winner |
1999 |
