2011 Winners and Honors
2011 Author Winner
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"One Crazy Summer,” written by Rita Williams-Garcia, and published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
2011 Illustrator Winner
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"Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave,” illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill, and published by Little, Brown, and COmpany, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
2011 Author Honor Titles
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“Lockdown” written by Walter Dean Myers, and published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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“Ninth Ward,” written by Jewell Parker Rhodes, and published by Little,Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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“Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty” written by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy DuBurke, and published by Lee & Low Books, Inc.
2011 Illustrator Honor Titles
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“Jimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix,” illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, written by Gary Golio, and published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
John Steptoe New Talent Author Award Winner
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“Zora and Me,” written by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon, and published by Candlewick Press.
John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner
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“Seeds of Change,” illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, written by Jen Cullerton Johnson, and published by Lee & Low Books, Inc.
2011 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith (Practitioner)
Professor emerita at the University of South Florida, Tampa, School of Library and Information Science