Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table to authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream."

Author Award Winners

Copper Sun (2007)
By Sharon Draper
YA Drake

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (2006)
By Julius Lester
YA Lester

Remember the Journey to School Intergration (2005)
By Toni Morrison
J 379.2

The First Part Last (2004)
By Angela Johnson
YA Johnson

Bronx Masquerade (2003)
By Nikki Grimes
YA Grimes

The Land (2002)
By Mildred Taylor
J Taylor

Miracle Boys (2001)
By Jacqueline Woodson
YA Woodson

Bud, Not Buddy (2000)
By Christopher Paul Curtis
J Curtis

Heaven (1999)
By Angela Johnson
YA Johnson

Forged by Fire (1998)
By Sharon Draper
YA Draper

Slam (1997)
By Walter Dean Myers
YA Myers

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (1996)
By Virginia Hamilton
J 398 Hamilton

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (1995)
By Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
JH 975.03 McKissack

Toning the Sweep ( 1994)
By Angela Johnson
YA Johnson

Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1993)
By Patricia A. McKissack
J McKissack

Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom ( 1992)
By Walter Dean Myers
J 973.049 Myers

The Road to Memphis (1991)
By Mildred D. Taylor
J Taylor

The Long Hard Journey: The Storty of Pullman Porter (1990)
By Patricia C & Frederick L. McKissack
J 331.88 McKissack

Fallen Angels (1989)
By Walter Dean Myers
YA Myers

The Friendship (1988)
By Mildred L. Taylor
J Taylor

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (1987)
By Mildred Pitts Walter
J Walter

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (1986)
By Virginia Hamilton
J 398 Hamilton

Motown and Didi (1985) *
By Walter Dean Myers

Everett Anderson’s Good-bye (1984) *
By Lucille Clifton

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1983) *
By Virginia Hamilton

Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1982)
By Mildred D. Taylor J Taylor

This Life (1981)
By Sidney Poitier
B Poitier

The Young Landlords (1980) *
By Walter Dean Myers

Escape to Freedom (1979)
By Ossie Davis J 812

Africa Dream (1978)*
By Eloise Greenfield

The Story of Stevie Wonder (1977)*
By James Haskins

Duey's Tale (1976)*
By Pearl Bailey

The Legend of Africania (1975)*
By Dorothy Robinson

Ray Charles (1974)*
By Sharon Bell Mathis

I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (1973)
B Robinson

17 Black Artists (1972) *
Elton C. Fax

Black Troubador: Langston Hughes (1971)*
By Charlemae Rollins

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (1970)
By Lillie Patterson JB King

Illustrator Awards

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2007)
By Kadir Nelson
JB Tubman

Rosa (2006)
Illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Nikki Giovanni
JB Parks

Ellington Was Not a Street (2005)
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson; text by Ntozake Shange
E Shange

Beautiful Blackbird (2004)
By Ashley Bryan
J 398 Bryan

Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman (2003)
Illustrated by E.B. Lewis; Text by Nikki Grimes
JB Coleman

Goin' Someplace Special (2002)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
E McKissack

Uptown (2001)
By Bryan Collier E Collier

In the Time of the Drums (2000)
Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson
E Siegelson

I See the Rhythm: a Story of African American Music (1999)
Illustrated by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus
J 780 Igus

In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (1998)
By Javaka Steptoe
J 811.008 In

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (1997)
Illustrated Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder
JB Tubman

The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo (1996)
By Tom Feelings
O 759.13 Feelings

The Creation (1995)
Illustrated by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson
J 811 Johnson

Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1994)
Illustrated by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman
J 811 Soul

The Origin of Life On Earth: An African Creation Myth (1993)
Illustrated by: Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson
J 398 Anderson

Tar Beach (1992)
By Faith Ringgold
E Ringgold

Aida (1991)
By Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price
J 782.10269 Price

Nathaniel Talking (1990)
Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield
J 811 Greenfeild

Mirandy and Brother Wind (1989)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
E McKissack

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale (1988)
By John Steptoe
J 398 Steptoe

Half a Moon and One Whole Star (1987)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwag
E Dragonwag

The Patchwork Quilt (1986)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy
E Flournoy

My Mama Needs Me (1984)*
Illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter

Black Child (1983)*
By Peter Mugabane

Mother Crocodile: Maman-Caiman (1982)
Illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Birago Diop, translated and adapted by Rosa Guy

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (1981)*
By Ashley Bryan

Cornrows (1980)*
Illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Camille Yarborough

Something on My Mind (1979)*
By Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes

African Dream (1978)*
Illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield

Ray Charles (1974)*
Illustrated by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis

* not available at TCPL as of yet; if we do not own the book an interlibrary loan can be placed for you.

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