Award-Coretta Scott King

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The Coretta Scott King Award is designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.  Given to African American authors and illustrators for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream. –ALA

 

2009 Author Award Book – We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Kadir Nelson)

 j796.357 N427w

2009 Author Honor Books

                                                -The Blacker the Berry (Joyce Carol Thomas) on order

                                                -Keeping the Night Watch (Hope Anita Smith) on order

                                                - Becoming Billie Holiday (Carole Weatherford) on order

 

2009 Illustrator Award Book –The Blacker the Berry (Floyd Cooper) on order

 

2009 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Kadir Nelson) j796.357 N427w

                                                - Before John was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane (Sean Qualls) on order

                                                - The Moon Over Star (Jerry Pinkney) on order

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2008 Author Award Book – Elijah of Buxton (Christopher Paul Curtis) jF Cur

 

2008 Author Honor Books

                                                -November Blues (Sharon M. Draper) jF Dra

                                                -Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali (Charles R. Smith Jr.)

                                                j921 A398s

 

2008 Illustrator Award Book – Let It Shine (Ashley Bryan) j782.253 L645

 

2008 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -The Secret Olivia Told Me (Nancy Devard)

                                                -Jazz on a Saturday Night (Leo and Diane Dillon) j781.65 D579j

 

2007 Author Award Book – Copper Sun (Sharon Draper) jF Dra

 

2007 Author Honor Book

                                                -The Road to Paris (Nikki Grimes) jF Gri

 

2007 Illustrator Award Book – Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Kadir Nelson)

                                                     j921 T885w

 

2007 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Jazz (Christopher Myers) jE Mye

                                                -Langston Hughes (Benny Andrews) j811 H893L                            

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2006 Author Award Book – A Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (Julius Lester) jF Les

 

2006 Author Honor Books

                                                -Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (Tonya Bolden) j974.71 L991b

                                                -Dark Sons (Nikki Grimes)

                                                -A Wreath for Emmett Till (Marilyn Nelson) j811 T574n

 

2006 Illustrator Award Book – Rosa (Bryan Collier) j921 P252g5

 

2006 Illustrator Honor Book   

                                                -Brothers in Hope: A Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan (R. Gregory Christie)

  jE WiL

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2005 Author Award Book - Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Tony Morrison) j379.263 M882r

 

2005 Author Honor Books

                                                -The Legend of Buddy Bush (Shelia P. Moses)  jF Mos 2005

                                    -Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives

                                    (Sharon G. Flake) jF Fla 2005

                                                -Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem (Marilyn Nelson) j811.54 N428f

 

2005 Illustrator Award Book - Ellington Was Not a Street (Kadir A. Nelson)  j811 S528e q

 

2005 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -God Bless the Child (Jerry Pinkney) jE Hol

                                                -The People Could Fly: American Black Folk Tales (Leo and Diane Dillon)

                                                j398.2 H221p

 

2004 Author Award Book - The First Part Last (Angela Johnson) jF Joh

 

2004 Author Honor Books

-Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States (Patricia C. and     Fredrick L. McKissack)

 j973.7 M158d

                                                -Locomotion (Jacqueline Woodson) j811 W898L

                                                -The Battle of Jericho (Sharon Draper) jF Dra

 

2004 Illustrator Award Book - Beautiful Blackbird (Ashley Bryan) jE Bry

 

2004 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Almost to Freedom (Colin Bootman) jE NeL

                                                -Thunder Rose (Kadir Nelson) jE NoL

 

2003 Author Award Book - Bronx Masquerade (Nikki Grimes) jF Gri

 

2003 Author Honor Books

                                                -The Red Rose Box (Brenda Woods) jF Woo

                                                -Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Bessie Coleman (Nikki Grimes)  

j921 C692g q

 

2003 Illustrator Award Book - Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Bessie Coleman (E. B. Lewis)

    j921 C692g q

2003 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles-Think of That (Leo and Diane Dillon) jE DiL

                                                -Visiting Langston (Bryan Collier) jE Per

 

2002 Author Award Book -The Land (Mildred Taylor) jF Tay

 

2002 Author Honor Books

                                                -Money Hungry (Sharon G. Flake) jF FLa

                                                -Carver: A Life in Poems (Marilyn Nelson) j921 C331n

 

2002 Illustrator Award Book - Goin’ Someplace Special (Jerry Pinkney) jE McK

 

2002 Illustrator Honor Book

                                                -Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Bryan Collier)

j921 K53r2

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2001 Author Award Book - Miracle’s Boys (Jacqueline Woodson) jF Woo

 

2001 Author Honor Book

-Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters (Andrea Davis Pinkney)   j920 P655L

 

2001 Illustrator Award Book – Uptown (Bryan Collier) jE Col

 

2001 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Freedom River (Bryan Collier) j921 P241r

                                                -Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth (R. Gregory Christie)

  j921 T874r

                                                -Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys (E. B. Lewis) jE How

 

2000 Author Award Book – Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis) jF Cur

 

2000 Author Honor Books

                                                -Francie (Karen English)  jF Eng

                                                -Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African American Whalers

 (Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack) j639.28 M158b

                                                -Monster (Walter Dean Myers) jF Mye

 

2000 Illustrator Award Book – In the Time of the Drums (Brian Pinkney) jE Sie

 

2000 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -My Rows and Piles of Coins (E. B. Lewis) jE Mol

                                                -Black Cat (Christopher Myers) jE Mye

 

1999 Author Award Book - Heaven (Angela Johnson) jF Joh

 

1999 Author Honor Books

                                                -Jazmin’s Notebook (Nikki Grimes) jF Gri

                                                -Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial                                                         Ground (Joyce Hanson) j305.567 H249b

                                                -The Other Side: Shorter Poems (Angela Johnson) j811 J66o

 

1999 Illustrator Award Book - I See the Rhythm (Michele Wood) j780.89 I24i

 

1999 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -I Have Heard of a Land (Floyd Cooper) jE Tho

                                                -The Bat Boy and His Violin (E. B. Lewis) jE Cur

                                                -Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (Brian Pinkney) j921 E46p

 

1998 Author Award Book – Forged by Fire (Sharon M. Draper) jF Dra

 

1998 Author Honor Books

-Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (James  Haskins) j921 R971h

-I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Joyce  Hansen) jF Han

 

1998 Illustrator Award Book - In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (Javaka

   Steptoe) j811 I35

1998 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry (Ashley Bryan) j811 A1105 q

                                                -Harlem:  a poem  (Christopher Myers) j811 M996h q

                                                -The Hunterman and the Crocodile (Baba Wague Diakite) j398.2 D536h

 

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­1997 Author Award Book – Slam! (Walter Dean Myers) jF Mye

 

1997 Author Honor Book

-Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Patricia C. and Frederick L.  McKissack) j970 M158r

 

1997 Illustrator Award Book - Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman  (Jerry Pinkney) j921 T885s

 

 

1997 Illustrator Honor Books

                                               

                                                -The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children (Gregory Christie)

  j811 P171

                                                -Running the Road to ABC (Reynold Ruffins)

                                                -Neeny Coming, Neeny Going (Synthia Saint)

 

1996 Author Award Book - Her Stories (Virginia Hamilton) j398.2 H221h

 

1996 Author Honor Books

                                                -The Watsons Go to Birmingham (Christopher Paul Curtis) jF Cur

                                                -Like Sisters on the Homefront (Rita Williams) jF WiL

                                                -From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Jacqueline Woodson)

 

1996 Illustrator Award Book -The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo (Tom Feelings)

   QUARTO 759.13 F295 Zf2 (Main)

1996 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Her Stories (Leo and Diane Dillon) j398.2 H221h

                                                -The Faithful Friend (Brian Pinkney) j398.2 S229f

 

1995 Author Award Book - Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (Patricia C. and Frederick

L. McKissack) jF McK

1995 Author Honor Books

                                                -The Captive (Joyce Hansen) jF Han

                                                -I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This (Jacqueline Woodson) jF Woo

                                                -Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (Patricia C. and Frederick

 L. McKissack) j796.357 M158b

 

1995 Illustrator Award Book - The Creation (James Ransome) j811.52 C912

 

1995 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -The Singing Man (Terea Shaffer) j398.2 M488s

                                                -Meet Danitra Brown (Floyd Cooper) jE Gri

 

1994 Author Award Book - Toning the Sweep (Angela Johnson) jF Joh

 

1994 Author Honor Books

                                                -Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea (Joyce Carol Thomas) j811 T458b

                                                -Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Walter Dean Myers) j921 X1m

 

1994 Illustrator Award Book - Soul Looks Back in Wonder (Tom Feelings) j811 S722

 

1994 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea (Floyd Cooper) j811 T458b

                                                -Uncle Jed’s Barbershop (James Ransom) jE Mit

 

1993 Author Award Book - Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (Patricia A. McKissack)

 j398.25 M158d

1993 Author Honor Books

                                                -Mississippi Challenge (Mildred Pitts Walter)

                                                -Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman (Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack)

  j921 T874m

                                                -Somewhere in the Darkness (Walter Dean Myers) jF Mye

 

1993 Illustrator Award Book - The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth (Kathleen Atkins Wilson)

    j398.2 A546o

1993 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Little Eight John (Wil Clay)

                                                -Sukey and the Mermaid (Brian Pinkney) jE San

                                                -Working Cotton (Carole Byard) jE WiL

 

1992 Author Award Book - Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom (Walter Dean

Myers) j973.0496 M996n

1992 Author Honor Book

                                                -Night on Neighborhood Street (Eloise Greenfield) j811 G812n

 

 

1992 Illustrator Award Book - Tar Beach (Faith Ringgold) jE Rin

 

1992 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals (Ashley

  Bryan) j782.25 A416 1991

                                                -Night on Neighborhood Street (Jan Spivey Gilchrist) j811 G812n 1996

 

1991 Author Award Book - The Road to Memphis (Mildred D. Taylor) jF Tay

 

1991 Author Honor Books

                                                -Black Dance in America (James Haskins) j793.3 H351b

                                                -When I Am Old with You (Angela Johnson) jE Joh

 

1991 Illustrator Award Book – Aida (Leo and Diane Dillon) j782.1 P945a

 

1990 Author Award Book - A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Patricia C. and Frederick

L. McKissack)  j331.88 M158L

1990 Author Honor Books

                                                -Nathaniel Talking (Eloise Greenfield) jE Gre

                                                -The Bells of Christmas (Virginia Hamilton) jF Ham

                                                -Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement (Lillie Patterson)

 j921 K53p3

 

1990 Illustrator Award Book - Nathaniel Talking (Jan Spivey Gilchrist) jE Gre

 

1990 Illustrator Honor Book

                                                -The Talking Eggs: a folktale from the American South (Jerry Pinkney)

  j398.2 S229t

 

1989 Author Award Book - Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers) jF Mye

 

1989 Author Honor Books

                                                -A Thief in the Village and Other Stories (James Berry) jF Ber 1988

                                                -Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Virginia Hamilton)

 j921 B967h2

 

1989 Illustrator Award Book - Mirandy and Brother Wind (Jerry Pinkney) jE McK

 

1989 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Under the Sunday Tree (Amos Ferguson) j811 F352u

                                                -Storm in the Night (Pat Cummings) jE Sto

 

1988 Author Award Book - The Friendship (Mildred L. Taylor) jF Tay

 

1988 Author Honor Books

                                                -An Enchanted Hair Tale (Alexis De Veaux) jE Dev

                                                -The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Julius Lester)

  j398.2 L642t

 

1988 Illustrator Award Book - Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (John Steptoe)

    jE Ste, jE Ste 1993 f

1988 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals (Ashley Bryan)

  j783.6 W555

-The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua (Joe    Sam) j398.2 R738i

 

1987 Author Award Book - Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (Mildred Pitts Walter) jF Wal

 

1987 Author Honor Books

                                                -Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Ashley Bryan)

  j398.2096 B915L

                                                -Which Way Freedom? (Joyce Hansen) jF Han

 

1987 Illustrator Award Book - Half a Moon and One Whole Star (Jerry Pinkney) jE Dra 1990

 

1987 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                -Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Ashley Bryan)

  j398.2096 B915L

                                                -C.L.O.U.D.S. (Pat Cummings)

 

­1986 Author Award Book - The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Virginia Hamilton) j398.2 H221p

 

 

1986 Author Honor Books

                                                -Junius Over Far (Virginia Hamilton) jF Ham

                                                -Trouble’s Child (Mildred Pitts Walter) jF WaL

 

1986 Illustrator Award Book –The Patchwork Quilt (Jerry Pinkney) jE Flo

 

1986 Illustrator Honor Book

                                                -The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Leo and Diane Dillon)

  j398.2 H221p

 

1985 Author Award Book - Motown and Didi: a love story (Walter Dean Myers) jF Mye 1987

 

1985 Author Honor Books

                                                -Circle of Gold (Candy Dawson Boyd)

                                                -A Little Love (Virginia Hamilton) jF Ham

 

1985 Illustrator Award Book –  NO AWARD

 

1984 Author Award Book – Everett Anderson’s Goodbye (Lucille Clifton) jE Cli

 

1984 Author Honor Books

                                                - The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (Virginia Hamilton) jF Ham

                                                - Lena Horne (James Haskins) j921 H815h

                                                - Bright Shadow (Joyce Carol Thomas) jF Avi

                                                - Because We Are (Mildred Pitts Walter)                                          

 

1984 Illustrator Award Book - My Mama Needs Me (Pat Cummings) jE WaL

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1983 Author Award Book – Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Virginia Hamilton) jF Ham

 

1983 Author Honor Book

                                                - This Strange New Feeling (Julius Lester) jF Les

 

 

1983 Illustrator Award Book - Black Child (Peter Magubane)

 

1983 Illustrator Honor Books

                                                - All the Colors of the Race: Poems (John Steptoe) j811.54 A239a

                                                - I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, Volume Two (Ashley Bryan)

   j784.756 B915i

                                                - Just Us Women (Pat Cummings) jE Cai

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1982 Author Award Book - Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Mildred D. Taylor) jF Tay

 

1982 Author Honor Books

                                                - Rainbow Jordan (Alice Childress) jF Chi

                                                - Lou in the Limelight (Kristin Hunter)

                                                - Mary: An Autobiography (Mary E. Mebane) 975.6563004 M485Zm4  (Main)

 

1982 Illustrator Award Book - Mother Crocodile= Maman-Caïman (John Steptoe) jE Dio

 

1982 Illustrator Honor Book

                                                - Daydreamers (Tom Feelings) j811.54 F295d

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1981 Author Award Book - This Life (Sidney Poitier) 792.43092  P757p7  (Main)

 

1981 Author Honor Book

                                                -Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday (Alexis De Veaux) j921 H732d

 

1981 Illustrator Award Book - Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (Ashley Bryan)

 

1981 Illustrator Honor Book

- Grandmama’s Joy (Carole Byard)

- Count on Your Fingers African Style (Jerry Pinkney) jE Zas

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1980 Author Award Book -The Young Landlords (Walter Dean Myers) jF Mye 1989

 

1980 Author Honor Books

                                                - Movin’ Up (Berry Gordy)

                                                - Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir (Eloise Greenfield) j920 G812c

                                                -  Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission (James Haskins)

                                                -  James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man (James Haskins)

                                                -  Let the Lion Eat Straw (Ellease Southerland) jF Sou

 

1980 Illustrator Award Book – Cornrows (Carole Byard) jE Yar 1996

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1979 Author Award Book- Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass (Ossie Davis)

 j921 D733d2

1979 Author Honor Book

                                                - Benjamin Banneker (Lillie Patterson)

                                                - I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf (Jeanne W. Peterson) j362.7842 P485i

                                                - Justice and Her Brothers (Virginia Hamilton) jF Ham 1989

                                                - The Skates of Uncle Richard (Carol Fenner) jF Fen

 

1979 Illustrator Award Book - Something on My Mind (Tom Feelings) j811.54 F295s

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1978 Author Award Book- Africa Dream (Eloise Greenfield) jE Gre 1992

 

1978 Author Honor Book

-The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be (William J. Faulkner)

- Marvin and Tige (Frankcina Glass)

                                                - Mary McLeod Bethune (Eloise Greenfield) j921 B563g

                                                - Barbara Jordan (James Haskins)

                                                - Coretta Scott King (Lillie Patterson)

- Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, The Daughter of Booker T. Washington (Ruth Ann Stewart)

 

1978 Illustrator Award Book - Africa Dream (Carole Bayard) jE Gre 1992

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1977 Author Award Book - The Story of Stevie Wonder (James Haskins)

 

1977 Illustrator Award Book – NO AWARD GIVEN

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1976 Author Award Book- Duey’s Tale (Pearl Bailey)

 

1976 Illustrator Award Book- NO AWARD GIVEN

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1975 Author Award Book- The Legend of Africana (Dorothy Robinson)

 

1975 Illustrator Award Book- NO AWARD GIVEN

 

1974 Author Award Book- Ray Charles (Sharon Bell Mathis) j921 C476m 2001

 

1974 Illustrator Award Book- Ray Charles (George Ford) j921 C476m 2001

 

1973 Author Award Book- I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (Alfred Duckett)

          796.092 R662ri (Main)

 

1973 Illustrator Award Book – NO AWARD GIVEN

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1972 Author Award Book- 17 Black Artists (Elton C. Fax)

 

1972 Illustrator Award Book – NO AWARD GIVEN

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1971 Author Award Book- Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes (Charlemae Rollins)

 

1971 Illustrator Award Book – NO AWARD GIVEN

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1970 Author Award Book- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (Lillie Patterson) j921 K53m 2001

 

1970 Illustrator Award Book – NO AWARD GIVEN

 

Professional Resources

Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2004.  2004.  CML 028.5079 C797 (Reference)

Coretta Scott King Awards Book, 1970-1999.  1999.  CML 028.5079 C797 1999

Coretta Scott King Awards Book: From Vision to Reality.  1994.  CML 028.5079 C797

Marks, Diana F.  Children’s Book Award Handbook.  2006.  CML 810.809282 M346c

Stephens, Claire Gatrell.  Coretta Scott King Award Books: Using Great Literature with Children and Young Adults.  2000.  CML 810.8 S832c

 

 

 

 

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