Coretta Scott King Award Books

The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually to authors and illustrators

of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding

and appreciation of the “American Dream.”

 

 

 

 

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Year          Call #                          Author                                Title

2007          YA Fic                          Draper                   Copper Sun

2006          J Fic                            Lester                    Day of Tears: a novel in dialogue

2005          J 379.263                    Morrison                Remember: The Journey to School Integration

2004          YA Fic                          Johnson                The First Part Last

2003          YA Fic                          Grimes                  Bronx Masquerade

2002          YA Fic                          Taylor                    The Land

2001          YA Fic                          Woodson              Miracle’s Boys

2000          YA Fic                          Curtis                    Bud, Not Buddy

1999          YA Fic                          Johnson                Heaven: A Novel

1998          YA Fic                          Draper                   Forged by Fire

1997          YA Fic                          Myers                    Slam!

1996          J 398.208996              Hamilton                Her Stories

1995          J 394.2663 (Holiday)     McKissack            Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

1994          J Fic                            Johnson                Toning the Sweep

1993          J Fic                            McKissack            The Dark-Thirty:  Southern Tales of the Supernatural

1992          J 973                           Myers                    Now is Your Time!: African-American Struggle for Freedom

1991          YA Fic                          Taylor                    The Road to Memphis

1990          J 331.88                      McKissack            A Long Hard Journey:  The Story of the Pullman Porter

1989          YA Fic                          Myers                    Fallen Angels

1988          J Fic                            Taylor                    The Friendship

1987          J Fic                            Walter                   Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

1986          J 398.208996              Hamilton                The People could Fly:  American Black Folktales

1985          do not have                   Myers                    Motown and Didi

1984          E                                  Clifton                    Everett Anderson’s Goodbye

1983          YA Fic                          Hamilton                Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

1982       J Fic                            Taylor                    Let the Circle Be Unbroken    

1981          do not have                   Poitier                    This Life

1980          YA Fic                          Myers                    The Young Landlords

1979          J 812.54                      Davis                     Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass

1978          E                                  Greenfield              Africa Dream

1977          do not have                   Haskins                 The Story of Stevie Wonder

1976          do not have                   Bailey                    Duey’s Tale

1975          do not have                   Robinson               The Legend of Africania

1974          J B Charles                 Mathis                    Ray Charles

1973          B Robinson                 Robinson               I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

1972          do not have                   Fax                        Seventeen Black Artists

1971          do not have                   Rollins                   Black Troubador:  Langston Hughes

1970          JB King                        Patterson              Martin Luther King Jr:  Man of Peace

 

 


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Coretta Scott King

Illustrator Award Winners

 

Year             Call#                        Illustrator                              Title

2007          E Weatherford               Nelson             Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

2006          E Giovanni                      Collier              Rosa     

2005          E Shange                       Nelson             Ellington Was Not a Street

2004          J 398.2096 Bryan           Bryan               Beautiful Blackbird

2003          E  Grimes                       Lewis               Talkin’ About Bessie:  The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

2002          E  McKissack                 Pinkney           Goin’ Someplace Special

2001          E  Collier                        Collier              Uptown

2000          E  Siegelson                   Pinkney           In the Time of the Drums

1999          J 780.8996 Igus              Wood              I See the Rhythm

1998          J 811.008 In                    Steptoe            In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall

1997          J B Tubman                   Pinkney           Minty:  A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

1996          759.13 Feelings             Feelings          The Middle Passage:  White Ships / Black Cargo

1995          J 213 Creation                Ransome        The Creation

1994          J 811 Soul                      Feelings          The Soul Looks Back in Wonder

1993          J 398.2096 Anderson     Wilson             The Origin of Life on Earth:  An African Creation Myth

1992          E  Ringgold                    Ringgold          Tar Beach

1991          J 782.1 Price                  Dillon               Aida

1990          J 811.54 Greenfield        Gilchrist           Nathaniel Talking

1989          E  McKissack                 Pinkney           Mirandy and Brother Wind

1988          J 398.2096 Steptoe        Steptoe            Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

1987          do not have                      Pinkney           Half a Moon and One Whole Star

1986          E  Flournoy                     Pinkney           The Patchwork Quilt

1985                                                                         No award given

1984          do not have                      Cummings      My Mama Needs Me

1983          do not have                      Magubane       Black Child

1982          J 398.20966 Diop           Steptoe            Mother Crocodile = Maman-Caiman

1981          J 398.20966 Bryan         Bryan               Beat the Story Drum,Pum-Pum

1980          E  Yarbrough                  Byard               Cornrows

1979          J 811.54 Feelings           Feelings          Something on my Mind

1978          E Greenfield                   Byard               Africa Dream

1977                                                                         No award given

1976                                                                         No award given

1975                                                                         No award given

1974          J B Charles                    Ford                 Ray Charles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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                                                                                                                                                                                                Revised: 5/07