Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent
About the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent
The award is established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee.
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.
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| Name | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Legendborn | Legendborn | 2021 - Winner |
| What Is Given from the Heart | What Is Given from the Heart | 2020 - Winner |
| Genesis Begins Again | Genesis Begins Again | 2020 - Winner |
| Jackson, Tiffany D. | Monday’s Not Coming | 2019 - Winner |
| Mora, Oge | Thank You, Omu! | 2019 - Winner |
| Erskine, Kathryn | Mama Africa! How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song | 2018 - Winner |
| Palmer, Charly | Mama Africa! How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song | 2018 - Winner |
| Moore, David Barclay | The Stars Beneath Our Feet | 2018 - Winner |
| The Sun Is Also a Star | The Sun Is Also a Star | 2017 - Winner |
| Hoodoo | Hoodoo | 2016 - Winner |
| Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | 2016 - Winner |
| When I Was the Greatest | When I Was the Greatest | 2015 - Winner |
| When the Beat was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop | When the Beat was Born | 2014 - Winner |
| 2013 No awards given | 2013 - No Awards Given | |
| 2012 no winner given | 2012 - No Awards Given | |
| Sadler, Sonia Lynn | Seeds of Change | 2011 - Winner |
| Johnson, Jen Cullerton | Seeds of Change | 2011 - Winner |
| Bond, Victoria | Zora and Me | 2011 - Winner |
| Simon, T.R. | Zora and Me | 2011 - Winner |
| Magoon, Kekla | The Rock and the River | 2010 - Winner |
| Strickland, Shadra | Bird | 2009 - Winner |
| Elliott, Zetta | Bird | 2009 - Winner |
| Frazier, Sundee T. | Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It | 2008 - Winner |
| Jones, Traci L. | Standing Against the Wind | 2007 - Winner |
| Adoff, Jaime | Jimi & Me | 2006 - Winner |
| Morrison, Frank | Jazzy Miz Mozetta | 2005 - Winner |
| Hathaway, Barbara | Miss Violet and Me | 2005 - Winner |
| Roberts, Brenda C. | Jazzy Miz Mozetta | 2005 - Winner |
| Cox, Judy | My Family Plays Music | 2004 - Winner |
| Brown, Elbrite | My Family Plays Music | 2004 - Winner |
| Evans, Shane W. | The Way a Door Closes | 2004 - Winner |
| Smith, Hope Anita | The Way a Door Closes | 2004 - Winner |
| McDonald, Janet | Chill Wind | 2003 - Winner |
| DuBurke, Randy | The Moon Ring | 2003 - Winner |
| Wiles, Deborah | Freedom Summer | 2002 - Winner |
| Lagarrigue, Jerome | Freedom Summer | 2002 - Winner |
| No awards given | 2001 - No Awards Given | |
| No awards given | 2000 - No Awards Given | |
| Flake, Sharon | The Skin I'm In | 1999 - Winner |
| Velasquez, Eric | The Piano Man | 1999 - Winner |
| Chocolate, Deborah | The Piano Man | 1999 - Winner |
| No awards given | 1998 - No Awards Given | |
| Southgate, Martha | Another Way to Dance | 1997 - Winner |
| No awards given | 1996 - No Awards Given | |
| Draper, Sharon | Tears of a Tiger | 1995 - Winner |
