The Coretta Scott King Award Winners, 1970- Present

Established in 1969, the Coretta Scott King Award is a book award presented annually to an African American author and an African American illustrator for outstanding contributions published during the previous year. The award is designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King who both had a passion for peace and brotherhood. To learn more about the award, visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/emiert/cskbookawards/recipients.cfm

A listing of the Coretta Scott King Award winners housed in the Curriculum Materials/Media Center is below. These books are organized according to the Library of Congress system of classification.

Award Date	Title/ Author and Illustrator	Call Number
2009	Author: We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / Kadir Nelson.	GV875 .A1 N45 2008
2009	Illustrator: The blacker the berry : poems / Joyce Carol Thomas.	PS3570 .H565 B53 2008
2008	Author: Elijah of Buxton / Christopher Paul Curtis. In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.	PZ7 .C94137 EL 2007
2008	Illustrator: Let it shine : three favorite spirituals / [illustrated by] Ashley Bryan Illustrated versions of three well-known hymns.	BV353 .L48 2007
2007	Author: Copper sun / Sharon M. Draper Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.	PZ7.D78325 COP 2006
2007	Illustrator: Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.	E444 .T82 W43 2006X
2006	Author: Day of tears : a novel in dialogue / Julius Lester Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.	PZ7 .L5629 DA 2005
2006	Illustrator: Rosa / Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by Bryan Collier The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture-book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.	F334 .M753 P38427 2005
2005	Author: Remember : the journey to school integration / Toni Morrison Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison's text--a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of "separate but equal" schooling. Remember is a unique pictorial and narrative journey that introduces children to a watershed period in American history and its relevance to us today. Remember will be published on the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ending legal school segregation, handed down on May 17, 1954.	LC214.2 .M67 2004
2005	Illustrator: Ellington was not a street / written by Ntozake Shange ; illustrations by Kadir Nelson	PS3569.H3324 E45 2004
2004	Author: The first part last / Angela Johnson Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.	PZ7.J629 FI 2003
	The Days of Jubille: The End of Slavery in the United States / Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack	Not in collection
	Illustrator: Beautiful Blackbird / Ashley Bryan	Not in collection
2003	Author: Bronx masquerade / by Nikki Grimes While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.	PZ7.G88429 BR 2002
2003	Illustrator: Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman / by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis A biography of the first licensed female African American pilot.	TL540.C646 G75 2002
2002	Author: The land / Mildred D. Taylor After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.	PZ7.T21723 LAN 2001
2002	Illustrator: Goin' someplace special / Patricia C. McKissack ; Jerry Pinkney In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.	PZ7.M478693 GO 2001
2001	Author: Miracle's boys / Jacqueline Woodson Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.	PZ7.W868 MI 2000
2001	Illustrator: Uptown / Bryan Collier A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River.	PZ7.C67759 UP 2000
2000	Author: Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.	PZ7.C94137 BU 1999
2000	Illustrator: In the time of the drums / Kim L. Siegelson ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.	PZ7.S56657 IN 1999
1999	Author: Heaven / Angela Johnson When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.	PZ7.J629 HE 1998
1999	Illustrator: I see the rhythm / paintings by Michele Wood ; text by Toyomi Igus Chronicles and captures poetically the history, mood, and movement of African American music.	ML3556 .I48 1998
1998	Author: Forged by fire / Sharon M. Draper Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.	PZ7.D78325 FO 1997
1998	Illustrator: In daddy's arms I am tall : African Americans celebrating fathers / illustrated by Javaka Steptoe A collection of poems celebrating African-American fathers by Angela Johnson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Carole Boston Weatherford, and others.	PS 591.N4 B46 1997
1997	Author: Slam! / Walter Dean Myers Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.	PZ7.M992 SL 1996
1997	Illustrator: Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman / by Alan Schroeder ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s.	E444.T82 S37 2000
1996	Author: Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales / told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon	GR111.A47 H35 1995
1996	Illustrator: The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo / by Tom Feelings (introduction by John Henrik Clarke)	ND237.F32 A4 1995
1995	Author: Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack ; illustrated by John Thompson Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.	F213 .M36 1994
1995	Illustrator: The Creation / James Weldon Johnson ; illustrated by James E. Ransome A poem based on the story of creation from the first book of the Bible.	PS3519.O2625 C73 1994
1994	Author: Toning the sweep / Angela Johnson On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.	PZ7.J629 TO 1994
1994	Illustrator: Soul Looks Back in Wonder / Tom Feelings	Not in collection
1993	Author: The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural /Patricia McKissak	Not in collection
1993	Illustrator: The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth/ Kathleen Atkins Wilson	Not in collection
1992	Author: Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom/ Walter Dean Myers	Not in collection
1992	Illustrator: Tar Beach / Faith Ringgold A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.	PZ7.R5 TAR 1992
1991	Author: The Road to Memphis/ Mildred D. Taylor	Not in collection
1991	Illustrator: Aida/ Leo and Diane Dillon	Not in collection
1990	Author: A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter/ Patricia and Frederick McKissak	Not in collection
1990	Illustrator: Nathaniel talking / by Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist	PS3557.R39416 N38 1988
1989	Author: Fallen Angels/ Walter Dean Myers	Not in collection
1989	Illustrator: Mirandy and Brother Wind / by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.	PZ7.M478693 MI 1988
1988	Author: The Friendship/ Mildred D. Taylor	Not in collection
1988	Illustrator: Mufaro's beautiful daughters : an African tale / John Steptoe Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife.	PZ 8 .S585 MU 1987
1987	Author: Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World/ Mildred Pitts Walter	Not in collection
1987	Illustrator: Half a Moon and One Whole Star/ Jerry Pinkney	Not in collection
1986	Author: The people could fly : American Black folktales / told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.	PZ8.1.H154 PE 1985
1986	Illustrator: The patchwork quilt / by Valerie Flournoy ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.	PZ7.F667 PAT 1985
1985	Author: Motown and Didi/ Walter Dean Myers	Not in collection
1984	Author: Everett Anderson's Goodbye/ Lucille Clifton	Not in Collection
1984	Illustrator: My Mama Needs Me/ Pat Cumming	Not in collection
1983	Author: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush/ Virginia Hamilton	Not in collection
1983	Illustrator: >Black Child/ Peter Magubane	Not in collection
1982<	Author: Let the circle be unbroken / Mildred D. Taylor Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.	PZ7 .T21723 LE
1982<	Illustrator: >Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale From Senegal/ John Steptoe	Not in collection
1981	Author: This Life/ Sidney Poitier	Not in collection
1981	Illustrator: Beat the story-drum, pum-pum / retold and illustrated by Ashley Bryan Five traditional Nigerian tales include "Hen and Frog," "Why Bush Cow and Elephant are Bad Friends," "The Husband Who Counted the Spoonfuls," "Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together," and "How Animals Got Their Tails."	PZ8.1.B838 BE 1987
1980	Author: The Young Landlords/ Walter Dean Myers	Not in collection
1980	Illustrator: Cornrows/ Carole Byard	Not in collection
1979	Author: Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass/ Ossie Davis	Not in collection
1979	Illustrator: Something on My Mind/ Tom Feelings	Not in collection
1978	Author: Africa dream / by Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by Carole Byard An African American girl dreams of long-ago Africa, where she sees animals, a marketplace, and some strange words from an old book. Then she returns to the village where her long-ago granddad welcomes her.	PS3557.R39416 A46 1992
1977	Author: The Story of Stevie Wonder/ James Haskins	Not in collection
1976	Author: Duey's Tale/ Pearl Bailey	Not in Collection
1975	Author: The Legend of Africania/ Dorothy Robinson	Not in collection
1974	Author: Ray Charles / Sharon Bell Mathis ; illustrated by George Ford	ML930.C443 M42 2001
1973	Author: Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson/Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett	Not in collection
1972	Author: Seventeen Black Artists/ Elton C. Fax	Not in collection
1971	Author: Black Troubador: Langston Hughes/ Charlemae H. Rollins	Not in collection
1970	Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace/ Lillie Patterson	Not in collection