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Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Winners 1970 - 2002 Honoring African-American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults | About the Awards | Black Caucus Awards

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Coretta Scott King Awards Winners

Coretta Scott King Awards 2002

Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Land | Hardcover | Audio cassette

Jerry Pinkney, for Illustration, Goin' Someplace Special | Hardcover

Jerome Lagarrigue was recognized with the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for Freedom Summer | Hardcover

Coretta Scott King Awards 2001

Jacqueline Woodson Miracle's Boys | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Unabridged) | Large Print

Bryan Collier, author, for the illustration of Uptown | Hardcover

Coretta Scott King Awards 2000

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | Microsoft e-book This title also won the Newbery Medal

Brian Pinkney for the illustration of In the Time of the Drums | Hardcover

Coretta Scott King Awards 1999

Heaven by Angela Johnson | School & Library Binding | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Large Print

Michele Wood for the Illustration of I See the Rhythm | Library Binding

Coretta Scott King Awards 1998

Sharon M. Draper for Forged by Fire | Library Binding | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

Javaka Steptoe for the illustration of In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers | Hardcover | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1997

Walter Dean Myers for Slam!  | Library Binding | Paperback | Audio Cassette Walter Dean Myers was a previous winner in 1992, 1989, 1985 and 1980

Jerry Pinkney for the illustration of Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman | Hardcover | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1996

Her Stories African American Folk Tales Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton | Hardcover | Paperback

Tom Feelings for the illustration of The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo | Hardcover

Coretta Scott King Awards 1995

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack | Library Binding

The Creation illustrated by James Ransome | Library Binding

Coretta Scott King Awards 1994

Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson | Hardcover

Soul Looks Back in Wonder Tom Feelings for Illustration | Hardcover

Coretta Scott King Awards 1993

Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack | Hardcover | Paperback

The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth , ill. by Kathleen Atkins Wilson | Hardcover | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1992

Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers | Library Binding | Paperback

Tar Beach illustrated by Faith Ringgold | Hardcover | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1991

The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor | Library Binding | Paperback

Aida, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon | Library Binding | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1990

A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack | Hardcover

Nathaniel Talking , ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfields | Hardcover

Coretta Scott King Awards 1989

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers | Library Binding | Paperback

Mirandy and Brother Wind, ill. by Jerry Pinkney | Library Binding | Paperback | Book & Cassette

Coretta Scott King Awards 1988

The Friendship by Mildred Taylor | Hardcover | Paperback

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale illustrated by John Steptoe | Library Binding | Hardcover | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1987

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter | Hardcover | Paperback

Half a Moon and One Whole Star illustrated by Jerry Pinkney | Library Binding | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1986

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton | Paperback

The Patchwork Quilt illustrated by Jerry Pinkney | Library Binding

Coretta Scott King Awards 1985

Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers | Library Binding | Paperback

Award for Illustration not given

Coretta Scott King Awards 1984

Special Citation: The Words of Martin Luther King, jr. by Coretta Scott King | Hardcover | Paperback

Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton | Hardcover | Paperback

My Mama Needs Me illustrated by Pat Cummings | Out of Print

Coretta Scott King Awards 1983

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton | Paperback

Black Child by Peter Mugabane | Out of Print

Coretta Scott King Awards 1982

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor | Hardcover | Paperback

Mother Crocodile ill. by John Steptoe | Hardcover | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1981

The Measure of  A Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Large Print | Audiobooks

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan | Hardcover | Paperback | Ashley Bryan: Poems and Folktales

Coretta Scott King Awards 1980

The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers | Hardcover | Paperback

Cornrows, ill. by Carole Byard | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1979

Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis | Paperback

Something on My Mind , ill. by Tom Feelings | Out of Print

Coretta Scott King Awards 1978

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield | Paperback

Africa Dream, ill. by Carole Bayard | Paperback

Coretta Scott King Awards 1977

The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins | Rare, Used and Out of Print Books

Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration - none given

Coretta Scott King Awards 1976

Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey | Out of Print

Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration - none given

Coretta Scott King Awards 1975

The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson | Out of Print

Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration - none given

Coretta Scott King Awards 1974

First Year that the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award was given

Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis | Paperback

Ray Charles , ill. by George Ford | Paperback

1973

I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett | Paperback

1972

Seventeen (17) Black Artists by Elton C. Fax | Out of Print

1971

Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins | Out of Print

1970

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson | Out of Print

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