Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present

2012

Author Award Winner 

• Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

Illustrator Award Winner      

• Shane W. Evans, author and illustrator of Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom (A Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership)

Author Honor 

• Eloise Greenfield, author of The Great Migration: Journey to the North, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

• Patricia C. McKissack, Never Forgotten, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.)

Illustrator Honor  

• Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

• Ashley Bryan, storyteller, artist, author, poet, and musician

 

2011

Author Award Winner

• Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Bryan Collier, illustrator of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)  

Author Honor

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Lockdown (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

• Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Ninth Ward (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)

• G. Neri, author of Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, illustrated by Randy DuBurke (Lee & Low Books, Inc.)

Illustrator Honor

• Javaka Steptoe, author of Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, written by Gary Golio (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

• Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, authors of Zora and Me (Candlewick Press)

• Sonia Lynn Sadler, illustrator of Seeds of Change, written by Jen Cullerton Johnson (Lee & Low Books, Inc.)

Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

• Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, professor emerita at the University of South Florida, Tampa, School of Library and Information Science 

 

2010

• Vaunda  Micheaux Nelson, author of Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.).

• Charles R. Smith, Jr., illustrator of My People, text by Langston Hughes (ginee seo books, Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

• Tanita S. Davis, author of Mare’s War (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.)

• E.B. Lewis, illustrator of The Negro Speaks of Rivers; text by Langston Hughes (Disney - Jump at the Sun Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group)

• Kekla Magoon, author of The Rock and the River (Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)

• Walter Dean Myers, author

 

2009

• Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group)

• Floyd Cooper, illustrator of The Blacker the Berry, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

• Hope Anita Smith, author of Keeping the Night Watch (Henry Holt and Company)

• Joyce Carol Thomas, author of The Blacker the Berry, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

• Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Becoming Billie Holiday (Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc.)

• Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group)

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Moon Over Star, written by Diana Hutts Aston (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

• Sean Qualls, illustrator of Before John Was a Jazz Giant, by Carole Boston Weatherford (Henry Holt and Company)

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

• Shadra Strickland, illustrator of Bird, written by Zetta Elliott (Lee & Low Books) 

 

2008

• Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic)

• Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Let it Shine (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

• Sharon M. Draper, author of November Blues (Atheneum Books for Young Adults)

• Charles R. Smith, Jr., author of Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Candlewick Press)

• Nancy Devard, illustrator of The Secret Olivia Told Me, written by N. Joy (Just Us Books)

• Leo and Diane Dillon, authors and illustrators of Jazz On A Saturday Night (Scholastic Blue Sky Press)

2007

• Sharon Draper, author of Copper Sun (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

• Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)

• Nikki Grimes, author of The Road to Paris (G.P. Putnum’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

• Christopher Myers, illustrator of Jazz, written by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House, Inc.)

• Benny Andrews, illustrator of Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.)

2006

Author Award Winner

• Julius Lester, author of Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Bryan Collier, illustrator of Rosa, written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt and Company).

Author Honor

• Tonya Bolden, author of Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)

• Nikki Grimes, author of Dark Sons (Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)

• Marilyn Nelson, author of A Wreath for Emmett Till, illustrated by Philippe Lardy (Houghton Mifflin Company)

Illustrator Honor

• R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, written by Mary Williams (Lee and Low Books)

• Jaime Adoff, author of Jimi & Me (Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)

 

2005

Author Award Winner

• Toni Morrison, author of Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton Mifflin)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Kadir A. Nelson, illustrator of Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Author Honor

• Shelia P. Moses, author of The Legend of Buddy Bush (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)

• Sharon G. Flake, author of Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)

• Marilyn Nelson, author of Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem (Front Street)

Illustrator Honor

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of God Bless the Child, text by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

• Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, written by Virginia Hamilton (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's)

2004

Author Award Winner

• Angela Johnson, author of The First Part Last (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Beautiful Blackbird (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Author Honor

• Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States (Scholastic)

• Jacqueline Woodson, author of Locomotion (Grosset & Dunlap)

• Sharon Draper, author of The Battle of Jericho (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Illustrator Honor

• Colin Bootman, illustrator of Almost to Freedom, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)

• Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen (Silver Whistle)

2003

Author Award Winner

• Nikki Grimes, author of Bronx Masquerade (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Illustrator Award Winner

• E. B. Lewis, illustrator of Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, written by Nikki Grimes (Orchard Books/Scholastic)

Author Honor

• Brenda Woods, author of The Red Rose Box (G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

• Nikki Grimes, author of Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Orchard Books/Scholastic)

Illustrator Honor

• Leo and Diane Dillon, authors and illustrators of Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic)

• Bryan Collier, illustrator of Visiting Langston, written by Willie Perdomo (Henry Holt & Co.)

2002

Author Award Winner

• Mildred Taylor, author of The Land (Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Goin’ Someplace Special, written by Patricia McKissack (Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum)

Author Honor 

• Sharon G. Flake, author of Money-Hungry (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

• Marilyn Nelson, author of Carver: A Life in Poems (Front Street)

Illustrator Honor  

• Bryan Collier, illustrator of Martin’s Big Words, written Doreen Rappoport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

2001

Author Award Winner

• Jacqueline Woodson, author of Miracle’s Boys (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Bryan Collier, author and illustrator of Uptown (Henry Holt)

Author Honor 

• Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Gulliver Books, Harcourt)

Illustrator Honor 

• Bryan Collier, illustrator of Freedom River, written by Doreen Rapport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

• R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth, written Anne Rockwell (Random House)

•  E.B. Lewis, illustrator of Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, written by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster)

2000

Author Award Winner

• Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte)

Illustrator Award Winner  

• Brian Pinkney, illustrator of In the Time of the Drums, written by Kim L. Siegelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)

Author Honor 

• Karen English, author of Francie (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

• Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack, authors of Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers  (Scholastic Press)

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Monster (HarperCollins)

Illustrator Honor

• E. B. Lewis, illustrator of My Rows and Piles of Coins, written by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion Books)

• Christopher Myers, author and illustrator of Black Cat (Scholastic)

1999

Author Award Winner

• Angela Johnson, author of Heaven (Simon & Schuster)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Michele Wood, illustrator of I See the Rhythm, written by Toyomi Igus (Children’s Book Press)

Author Honor 

• Nikki Grimes, author of Jazmin’s Notebook (Dial Books)

• Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan, authors of Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground (Henry Holt and Company)

• Angela Johnson, author of The Other Side: Shorter Poems (Orchard Books)

Illustrator Honor

• Floyd Cooper, illustrator of I Have Heard of a Land, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)

• E. B. Lewis, illustrator of The Bat Boy and His Violin, written by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster)

• Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children)

1998

Author Award Winner

• Sharon M. Draper, author of Forged by Fire (Atheneum)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Javaka Steptoe, illustrator of In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, written by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low)

Author Honor 

• James Haskins, author of Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion)

• Joyce Hansen, author of I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Scholastic)

Illustrator Honor 

• Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

• Christopher Myers, illustrator of Harlem, written by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)

• Baba Wagué Diakité, illustrator of The Hunterman and the Crocodile (Scholastic)

1997

Author Award Winner

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Slam (Scholastic)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, written by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Author Honor

• Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack, authors of Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Scholastic)

Illustrator Honor

• R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.)

• Reynold Ruffins, illustrator of Running the Road to ABC, written by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

• Synthia Saint James, illustrator of Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, written by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)

1996

Author Award Winner

• Virginia Hamilton, author of Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Tom Feelings, illustrator of The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Author Honor 

• Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 (Delacorte)

• Rita Williams-Garcia, author of Like Sisters on the Homefront (Delacorte)

• Jacqueline Woodson, author of From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)

Illustrator Honor 

• Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Her Stories, written by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)

• Brian Pinkney, illustrator of The Faithful Friend, written by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

1995

Author Award Winner

• Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack, authors of Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (Scholastic)

Illustrator Award Winner

• James Ransome, illustrator of The Creation, text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House)

Author Honor  

• Joyce Hansen, author of The Captive (Scholastic)

• Jacqueline Woodson, author of I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This (Delacorte)

• Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack , authors of Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League (Scholastic)

Illustrator Honor 

• Terea Shaffer, illustrator of The Singing Man, written by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House)

• Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Meet Danitra Brown, written by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)

1994

Author Award Winner

• Angela Johnson, author of Toning the Sweep (Orchard)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Tom Feelings, illustrator of Soul Looks Back in Wonder, edited by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Author Honor

• Joyce Carol Thomas, author of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic)

Illustrator Honor 

• Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins)

• James Ransome, illustrator of Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, written by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)

1993

Author Award Winner

• Patricia C. McKissack, author of The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Knopf)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Kathleen Atkins Wilson, illustrator of The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights)

Author Honor 

• Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Mississippi Challenge (Bradbury)

• Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack, authors of Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? (Scholastic)

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic)

Illustrator Honor 

• Wil Clay, illustrator of Little Eight John, written by Jan Wahl (Lodestar)

• Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Sukey and the Mermaid, written by Robert San Souci (Four Winds)

• Carole Byard, illustrator of Working Cotton, written by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)

1992

Author Award Winner

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom (HarperCollins)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Faith Ringgold, illustrator of Tar Beach (Crown)

Author Honor 

• Eloise Greenfield, author of Night on Neighborhood Street, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial)

Illustrator Honor

• Ashley Bryan, illustrator of All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals (Atheneum)

• Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Night on Neighborhood Street, written by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

1991

Author Award Winner

• Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Road to Memphis (Dial)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Aida, written by Leontyne Price (Harcourt)

Author Honor 

• James Haskins, author of Black Dance in America (Crowell)

• Angela Johnson, author of When I Am Old with You (Orchard)

1990

Author Award Winner

• Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack, authors of A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Nathaniel Talking, written by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly)

Author Honor 

• Eloise Greenfield, author of Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly)

• Virginia Hamilton, author of The Bells of Christmas, illustrated by Lambert Davis (Harcourt)

• Lillie Patterson, author of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement (Facts on File)

Illustrator Honor

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Talking Eggs, written by Robert San Souci (Dial)

1989

Author Award Winner

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Fallen Angels (Scholastic)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Mirandy and Brother Wind, written by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)

Author Honor 

• James Berry, author of A Thief in the Village and Other Stories (Orchard)

• Virginia Hamilton, author of Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Knopf)

Illustrator Honor Books

• Amos Ferguson, illustrator of Under the Sunday Tree, written by Eloise Greenfield (Harper)

• Pat Cummings, illustrator of Storm in the Night, written by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1988

Author Award Winner

• Mildred L. Taylor, author of The Friendship (Dial)

Illustrator Award Winner

• John Steptoe, illustrator of Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Lothrop)

Author Honor 

• Alexis De Veaux, author of An Enchanted Hair Tale (Harper)

• Julius Lester, author of The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Dial)

Illustrator Honor 

• Ashley Bryan, illustrator of What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan)

• JoeSam, illustrator of The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al (Children’s Press)

1987

Author Award Winner

• Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, illustrated by Catherine Stock (Lothrop)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Half a Moon and One Whole Star, written by Crescent Dragonwagon (Macmillan)

Author Honor

• Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Atheneum)

• Joyce Hansen, author of Which Way Freedom (Walker)

Illustrator Honor 

• Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Atheneum)

• Pat Cummings, author and illustrator of C.L.O.U.D.S. (Lothrop)

1986

Author Award Winner

• Virginia Hamilton, author of The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Patchwork Quilt, written by Valerie Flournoy (Dial)

Author Honor 

• Virginia Hamilton, author of Junius Over Far (Harper)

• Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Trouble’s Child  (Lothrop)

Illustrator Honor 

• Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, written by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)

1985

Author Award Winner

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Motown and Didi (Viking)

Illustrator Award Winner

Author Honor 

• Candy Dawson Boyd, author of Circle of Gold  (Apple/Scholastic)

• Virginia Hamilton, author of A Little Love (Philomel)

1984

Author Award Winner

•  Lucille Clifton, author of Everett Anderson’s Goodbye, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi (Holt)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Pat Cummings, illustrator of My Mama Needs Me, written by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)

Author Honor

• Virginia Hamilton, author of The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (Harper)

• James Haskins, author of Lena Horne (Coward-McCann)

• Joyce Carol Thomas, author of Bright Shadow (Avon)

• Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Because We Are (Lothrop)

1983

Author Award Winner

• Virginia Hamilton, author of Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Amistad)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Peter Magubane, photographer and author of Black Child (Knopf)

Author Honor

• Julius Lester, author of This Strange New Feeling (Dial)

Illustrator Honor

• John Steptoe, illustrator of All the Colors of the Race, written by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop)

• Ashley Bryan, illustrator of I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals (Atheneum)

• Pat Cummings, illustrator of Just Us Women, written by Jeanette Caines (Harper)

 

1982

Author Award Winner

• Mildred D. Taylor, author of Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Dial)

Illustrator Award Winner

• John Steptoe, illustrator of Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, written by Rosa Guy (Delacorte)

Author Honor

• Alice Childress, author of Rainbow Jordan (Coward-McCann)

• Kristin Hunter, author of Lou in the Limelight (Scribner)

• Mary E. Mebane, author of Mary: An Autobiography (Viking)

Illustrator Honor

• Tom Feelings, illustrator of Daydreamers, written by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

1981

Author Award Winner

• Sidney Poitier, author of This Life (Knopf)

Illustrator Award Winner

• Ashley Bryan, illustrator of Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (Atheneum)

Author Honor 

• Alexis De Veaux, author of Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday (Harper)

Illustrator Honor

• Carole Byard, illustrator of Grandmama’s Joy, written by Eloise Greenfield (Collins)

• Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Count on Your Fingers African Style, written by Claudia Zaslavsky (Crowell)

1980

Author Award Winner

• Walter Dean Myers, author of The Young Landlords (Viking)

• Carole Byard, illustrator of Cornrows, written by Camille Yarborough (Coward-McCann)

• Berry Gordy, author of Movin’ Up (Harper)

• Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little, authors of Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir (Harper)

• James Haskins, author of Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission (Lothrop)

• James Haskins, author of James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man (Dodd)

• Ellease Southerland, author of Let the Lion Eat Straw  (Scribner)

1979

Author Award Winner

• Ossie Davis, author of Escape to Freedom (Viking)

• Tom Feelings, illustrator of Something on My Mind, written by Nikki Grimes (Dial)

• Lillie Patterson, author of Benjamin Banneker (Abingdon)

• Jeanne W. Peterson, author of I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf (Harper)

• Virginia Hamilton, author of Justice and Her Brothers (Greenwillow)

• Carol Fenner, author of Skates of Uncle Richard (Random)

1978

Author Award Winner

• Eloise Greenfield, author of Africa Dream, illustrated by Carole Byard (Crowell)

Illustrator Award Winner

Author Honor

• William J. Faulkner, author of The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be (Follett)

• Frankcina Glass, author of Marvin and Tige (St. Martin’s)

• Eloise Greenfield, author of Mary McCleod Bethune (Crowell)

• James Haskins, author of Barbara Jordan (Dial)

• Lillie Patterson, author of Coretta Scott King (Garrard)

• Ruth Ann Stewart, author of Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington (Doubleday)

1977

Author Award Winner

•  James Haskins, author of The Story of Stevie Wonder (Lothrop)

Author Honor 

• Lucille Clifton, author of Everett Anderson's Friend (Holt)

• Mildred D. Taylor, author of Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry (Dial)

• Clarance N. Blake and Donald F. Martin, authors of Quick Book on Black America (Houghton)

1976

Author Award Winner

• Pearl Bailey, author of Duey’s Tale (Harcourt)

Author Honor 

• Shirley Graham, author of Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa (Messner)

• Eloise Greenfield, author of Paul Robeson (Crowell)

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff (Viking)

• Mildred D. Taylor, author of Song of the Trees (Dial)

1975

Author Award Winner

• Dorothy Robinson, author of The Legend of Africana (Johnson Publishing)

1974

Author Award Winner

• Sharon Bell Mathis, author of Ray Charles, illustrated by George Ford (Crowell)

• George Ford, illustrator of Ray Charles, written by Sharon Bell Mathis (Crowell)

• Alice Childress, author of A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (Coward-McCann)

• Lucille Clifton, author of Do You Remember? (Dutton)

• Louise Crane, author of Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women (Lippincott)

• Kristin Hunter, author of Guest in the Promised Land (Scribner)

• John Nagenda, author of Mukasa (MacMillan)

1973

Author Award Winner

• Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, authors of I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (Putnam)

 

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1972

Author Award Winner

• Elton C. Fax, author of 17 Black Artists (Dodd)

 

1971

Author Award Winner

• Charlemae Rollins, author of Black Troubador: Langston Hughes (Rand McNally)

• Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Random)

• Shirley Chisholm, author of Unbought and Unbossed (Houghton)

• Mari Evans, author of I Am a Black Woman (Morrow)

• Lorenz Graham, author of Every Man Heart Lay Down (Crowell)

• June Jordan and Terri Bush, authors of The Voice of the Children (Holt)

• Gladys Groom and Bonnie Grossman, authors of Black Means (Hill & Wang)

• Margaret W. Peters, author of Ebony Book of Black Achievement (Johnson Publishing)

• Janice May Udry, author of Mary Jo's Grandmother (Whitman)