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Coretta Scott King Award SealThe Coretta Scott King Award

The Coretta Scott King Award honors African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to children's and young adult literature that promote understanding and appreciation of the culture and contribution of all people to the realization of the American Dream.

The Award is designed to commemorate the life, works and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue that work for peace and world brotherhood. Winners of the Coretta Scott King Award receive a framed citation, an honorarium, and a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica or World Book Encyclopedias. Coretta Scott King Award books are chosen by a seven-member national award jury.

In 1999 the Coretta Scott King Award celebrates its 30th anniversary! A 30th anniversary gala, a "Gallery Stroll" featuring original works of current and past award winners, will be Friday, June 25 from 7 to 10 p.m. at ALA's Annual Conference in New Orleans. The annual Coretta Scott King Awards Breakfast with singer/actress Della Reese as special guest will be Tuesday, June 29. Award winners are announced during the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting and presented at the Coretta Scott King Awards Breakfast at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference.
from the American Library Association.

The Coretta Scott King Award Book List
(Award Winners and Honor Books)

1999 Author Award Winner
Heaven by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

Honor Book

Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books)
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan (Henry Holt and Company)
The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson (Orchard Books)

1999 Illustrator Award Winner

i see the rhythm, ill. by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus (Children's Book Press)

Honor Books

I Have Heard of a Land, ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas
(Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
The Bat Boy and His Violin, ill. by E.B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster)
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children)

1998 Author Award Winner

Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)

Honor Book

Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion)
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic, Inc.)

1998 Illustrator Award Winner

Honor Books

In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, ill. by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low)
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry, by Ashley Bryan (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
Harlem, ill. by Christopher Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, Inc.)
The Hunterman and the Crocodile, by Baba Wagué Diakité (Scholastic, Inc.)

 

1997 Author Award Winner

Honor Book

Slam by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.)

1997 Illustrator Award Winner

Honor Books

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, ill. by Gregorie Christie; ed. by David Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.)
Running The Road To ABC, ill. by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers)
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, ill. by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)

1996 Author Award Winner

Honor Books

Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia (Delacorte)
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)

1996 Illustrator Award Winner

Honor Books

The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Her Stories, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
The Faithful Friend, ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

1995 Author Award Winner

Honor Books

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.)
The Captive by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)
Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.)

1995 Illustrator Award Winner

Honor Books

The Creation, ill. by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House)
The Singing Man, ill. by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House)
Meet Danitra Brown, ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)

1994 Author Award Winner

Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson (Orchard)

Honor Books

Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; ill. by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)

1994 Illustrator Award Winner

Soul Looks Back in Wonder, ill. by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Honor Books

Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins)
Uncle Jed's Barbershop, ill. by James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)

1993 Author Award Winner

Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack (Knopf)

Honor Books

Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (Bradbury)
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)

1993 Illustrator Award Winner

The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth, ill. by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights)

Honor Books

Little Eight John, ill. by Wil Clay; text by Jan Wahl (Lodestar)
Sukey and the Mermaid, ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Four Winds)
Working Cotton, ill. by Carole Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)

1992 Author Award Winner

Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)

Honor Book

Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial)

1992 Illustrator Award Winner

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Crown)

Honor Books

All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African American Spirituals, ill. and selected by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Night on Neighborhood Street, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

1991 Author Award Winner

The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)

Honor Books

Black Dance in America by James Haskins (Crowell)
When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson (Orchard)

1991 Illustrator Award Winner

Aida, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price (Harcourt)

1990 Author Award Winner

A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Walker)

Honor Books

Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly)
The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson (Facts on File)

1990 Illustrator Award Winner

Nathaniel Talking, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly)

Honor Book

The Talking Eggs, ill. by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci (Dial)

1989 Author Award Winner

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)

Honor Books

A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry (Orchard)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)

1989 Illustrator Award Winner

Mirandy and Brother Wind, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)

Honor Books

Under the Sunday Tree, ill. by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield (Harper)
Storm in the Night, ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz (Harper)

 

1988 Author Award Winner

The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor (Dial)

Honor Books

An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester (Dial)

1988 Illustrator Award Winner

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe (Lothrop)

Honor Books

What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, ill. by Ashley Bryan; selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan)
The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, ill. by Joe Sam; compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al (Children's Press)

 

1987 Author Award Winner

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)

Honor Books

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen (Walker)

1987 Illustrator Award Winner

Half a Moon and One Whole Star, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon (Macmillan)

Honor Books

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings (Lothrop)

 

1986 Author Award Winner

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)

Honor Books

Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)
Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)

1986 Illustrator Award Winner

The Patchwork Quilt, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy (Dial)

Honor Book

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)

1985 Author Award Winner

Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)

Honor Books

Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd (Apple/Scholastic)
A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)

1985 Illustrator Award Winner

No award

1984 Author Award Winner

Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton (Holt)

Special Citation:

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, compiler (Newmarket Press)

Honor Books

The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)
Lena Horne by James Haskins (Coward-McCann)
Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas (Avon)
Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter

1984 Illustrator Award Winner

My Mama Needs Me, ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)

1983 Author Award Winner

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)

Honor Book

This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester (Dial)

1983 Illustrator Award Winner

Black Child by Peter Mugabane (Knopf)

Honor Books

All the Colors of the Race, ill. by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop)
I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, ill. by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Just Us Women, ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines (Harper)

 

1982 Author Award Winner

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)

Honor Books

Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress (Coward-McCann)
Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter (Scribner)
Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane (Viking)

1982 Illustrator Award Winner

Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, ill. by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy (Delacorte)

Honor Book

Daydreamers, ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

1981 Author Award Winner

This Life by Sidney Poitier (Knopf)

Honor Book

Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)

1981 Illustrator Award Winner

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)

Honor Books

Grandmama's Joy, ill. by Carole Byard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Collins)
Count on Your Fingers African Style, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Claudia Zaslavsky (Crowell)

1980 Author Award Winner

The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)

Honor Books

Movin' Up by Berry Gordy (Harper)
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little (Harper)
Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission by James Haskins (Lothrop)
James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins (Dodd)
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (Scribner)

1980 Illustrator Award Winner

Cornrows, ill. by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough (Coward-McCann)

1979 Author Award Winner

Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis (Viking)

Honor Books

Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson (Abingdon)
I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson (Harper)
Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton (Greenwillow)
Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner (Random)

1979 Illustrator Award Winner

Something on My Mind, ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes (Dial)

1978 Author Award Winner

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield; ill. by Carole Bayard (Crowell)

Honor Books

The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner (Follett)
Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass (St. Martin's)
Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)
Barbara Jordan by James Haskins (Dial)
Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart (Doubleday)

1978 Illustrator Award Winner

Africa Dream, ill. by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)

1977 Author Award Winner

The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins (Lothrop)

1977 Illustrator Award Winner

No award

1976 Author Award Winner

Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey (Harcourt)

1976 Illustrator Award Winner

No award

1975 Author Award Winner

The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson (Johnson Publishing)

1975 Illustrator Award Winner

No award

1974 Author Award Winner

Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; ill. by George Ford (Crowell)

1974 Illustrator Award Winner

Ray Charles, ill. by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis (Crowell)

(Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only)

1973 Award Winner

I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett (Putnam)

1972 Award Winner

17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax (Dodd)

1971 Award Winner

Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins (Rand McNally)

1970 Award Winner

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)
 

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