Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present
The complete list of Coretta Scott King Book Award recipients.
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2009
2009 Author WinnerKadir Nelson, author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group) |
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2009 Illustrator WinnerFloyd Cooper, illustrator of The Blacker the Berry, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) |
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2009 John Steptoe Winner (Illustrator Winner)Shadra Strickland, illustrator of Bird, written by Zetta Elliott (Lee & Low Books) |
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2009 Author Honor Titles |
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| Hope Anita Smith, author of Keeping the Night Watch (Henry Holt and Company) | |
| Joyce Carol Thomas, author of The Blacker the Berry, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) | |
| Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Becoming Billie Holiday (Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc.) | |
2009 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group) | |
| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Moon Over Star, written by Diana Hutts Aston (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group) | |
| Sean Qualls, illustrator of Before John Was a Jazz Giant, by Carole Boston Weatherford (Henry Holt and Company) |
2008
2008 Author WinnerChristopher Paul Curtis, author of Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic) |
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2008 Illustrator WinnerAshley Bryan, author and illustrator of Let it Shine (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) |
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2008 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner)Sundee T. Frazier, author of Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books) |
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2008 Author Honor Titles |
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| Sharon M. Draper, author of November Blues (Atheneum Books for Young Adults) | |
| Charles R. Smith, Jr., author of Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Candlewick Press) | |
2008 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Nancy Devard, illustrator of The Secret Olivia Told Me, written by N. Joy (Just Us Books) | |
| Leo and Diane Dillon, authors and illustrators of Jazz On A Saturday Night (Scholastic Blue Sky Press) |
2007
2007 Author WinnerSharon Draper, author of Copper Sun (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers) |
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2007 Illustrator WinnerKadir Nelson, illustrator of Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children) |
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2007 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner)Traci L. Jones, author of Standing Against the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
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2007 Author Honor Title |
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| Nikki Grimes, author of The Road to Paris (G.P. Putnum’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group) | |
2007 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Christopher Myers, illustrator of Jazz, written by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House, Inc.) | |
| Benny Andrews, illustrator of Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.) |
2006
2006 Author WinnerJulius Lester, author of Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children) |
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2006 Illustrator WinnerBryan Collier, illustrator of Rosa, written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt and Company). |
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2006 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner)Jaime Adoff, author of Jimi & Me (Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children) |
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2006 Author Honor Titles |
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| Tonya Bolden, author of Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) | |
| Nikki Grimes, author of Dark Sons (Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children) | |
| Marilyn Nelson, author of A Wreath for Emmett Till, illustrated by Philippe Lardy (Houghton Mifflin Company) | |
2006 Illustrator Honor Title |
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| R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, written by Mary Williams (Lee and Low Books) |
2005
2005 Author Award Winner |
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| Toni Morrison, author of Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton Mifflin) | |
2005 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Kadir A. Nelson, illustrator of Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) | |
2005 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner) |
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| Barbara Hathaway, author of Missy Violet and Me (Houghton Mifflin) | |
2005 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator Winner) |
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| Frank Morrison, illustrator of Jazzy Miz Mozetta, written by Brenda C. Roberts (Farrar Straus Giroux) | |
2005 Author Honor Titles |
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| Shelia P. Moses, author of The Legend of Buddy Bush (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster) | |
| Sharon G. Flake, author of Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children) | |
| Marilyn Nelson, author of Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem (Front Street) | |
2005 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of God Bless the Child, text by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) | |
| Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, written by Virginia Hamilton (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's) |
2004
2004 Author Winner |
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| Angela Johnson, author of The First Part Last (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) | |
2004 Illustrator Winner |
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| Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Beautiful Blackbird (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) | |
2004 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner) |
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| Hope Anita Smith, author of The Way a Door Closes, illustrated by Shane W. Evans (Henry Holt) | |
2004 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator Winner) |
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| Elbrite Brown, illustrator of My Family Plays Music, written by Judy Cox (Holiday House) | |
2004 Author Honor Titles |
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| Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States (Scholastic) | |
| Jacqueline Woodson, author of Locomotion (Grosset & Dunlap) | |
| Sharon Draper, author of The Battle of Jericho (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) | |
2004 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Colin Bootman, illustrator of Almost to Freedom, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books) | |
| Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen (Silver Whistle) |
2003
2003 Author Winner |
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| Nikki Grimes, author of Bronx Masquerade (Dial Books for Young Readers) | |
2003 Illustrator Winner |
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| E. B. Lewis, illustrator of Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, written by Nikki Grimes (Orchard Books/Scholastic) | |
2003 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner) |
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| Janet McDonald, author of Chill Wind (Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | |
2003 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator Winner) |
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| Randy DuBurke, author and illustrator of The Moon Ring (Chronicle Books) | |
2003 Author Honor Titles |
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| Brenda Woods, author of The Red Rose Box (G. P. Putnam’s Sons) | |
| Nikki Grimes, author of Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Orchard Books/Scholastic) | |
2003 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Leo and Diane Dillon, authors and illustrators of Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic) | |
| Bryan Collier, illustrator of Visiting Langston, written by Willie Perdomo (Henry Holt & Co.) |
2002
2002 Author Award Winner |
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| Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Land (Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam) | |
2002 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Goin’ Someplace Special, written by Patricia McKissack (Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum) | |
2002 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner) |
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| Jerome Lagarrigue, illustrator of Freedom Summer, written by Deborah Wiles (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) | |
2002 Author Honor Titles |
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| Sharon G. Flake, author of Money-Hungry (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion) | |
| Marilyn Nelson, author of Carver: A Life in Poems (Front Street) | |
2002 Illustrator Honor Title |
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| Bryan Collier, illustrator of Martin’s Big Words, written Doreen Rappaport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion) |
2001
2001 Author Award Winner |
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| Jacqueline Woodson, author of Miracle’s Boys (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) | |
2001 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Bryan Collier, author and illustrator of Uptown (Henry Holt) | |
2001 Author Honor Title |
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| Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Gulliver Books, Harcourt) | |
2001 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Bryan Collier, illustrator of Freedom River, written by Doreen Rappaport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion) | |
| R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth, written Anne Rockwell (Random House) | |
| E.B. Lewis, illustrator of Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, written by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster) |
2000
2000 Author Award Winner |
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| Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte) | |
2000 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Brian Pinkney, illustrator of In the Time of the Drums, written by Kim L. Siegelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children) | |
2000 Author Honor Titles |
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| Karen English, author of Francie (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | |
| Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers (Scholastic Press) | |
| Walter Dean Myers, author of Monster (HarperCollins) | |
2000 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| E. B. Lewis, illustrator of My Rows and Piles of Coins, written by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion Books) | |
| Christopher Myers, author and illustrator of Black Cat (Scholastic) |
1999
1999 Author Award Winner |
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| Angela Johnson, author of Heaven (Simon & Schuster) | |
1999 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Michele Wood, illustrator of I See the Rhythm, written by Toyomi Igus (Children’s Book Press) | |
1999 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Award) |
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| Sharon Flake, author of The Skin I'm In (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion) | |
1999 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator Award) |
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| Eric Velasquez, illustrator of The Piano Man, written by Debbie Chocolate (Walker Books for Young Readers) | |
1999 Author Honor Titles |
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| Nikki Grimes, author of Jazmin’s Notebook (Dial Books) | |
| Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan, authors of Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground (Henry Holt and Company) | |
| Angela Johnson, author of The Other Side: Shorter Poems (Orchard Books) | |
1999 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Floyd Cooper, illustrator of I Have Heard of a Land, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins) | |
| E. B. Lewis, illustrator of The Bat Boy and His Violin, written by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster) | |
| Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children) |
1998
1998 Author Award Winner |
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| Sharon M. Draper, author of Forged by Fire (Atheneum) | |
1998 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Javaka Steptoe, illustrator of In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, written by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low) | |
1998 Author Honor Titles |
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| James Haskins, author of Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion) | |
| Joyce Hansen, author of I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Scholastic) | |
1998 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry (Jean Karl/Atheneum) | |
| Christopher Myers, illustrator of Harlem, written by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic) | |
| Baba Wagué Diakité, illustrator of The Hunterman and the Crocodile (Scholastic) |
1997
1997 Author Award Winner |
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| Walter Dean Myers, author of Slam (Scholastic) | |
1997 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, written by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers) | |
1997 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner) |
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| Martha Southgate, author of Another Way to Dance (Delacorte) | |
1997 Author Honor Title |
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| Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Scholastic) | |
1997 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.) | |
| Reynold Ruffins, illustrator of Running the Road to ABC, written by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) | |
| Synthia Saint James, illustrator of Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, written by Karen English (BridgeWater Books) | |
1996
1996 Author Award Winner |
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| Virginia Hamilton, author of Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press) | |
1996 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Tom Feelings, illustrator of The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo (Dial Books for Young Readers) | |
1996 Author Honor Titles |
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| Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 (Delacorte) | |
| Rita Williams-Garcia, author of Like Sisters on the Homefront (Delacorte) | |
| Jacqueline Woodson, author of From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press) | |
1996 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Her Stories, written by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press) | |
| Brian Pinkney, illustrator of The Faithful Friend, written by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) | |
1995
1995 Author Award Winner |
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| Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (Scholastic) | |
1995 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| James Ransome, illustrator of The Creation, text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House) | |
1995 Inaugural John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author Winner) |
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| Sharon Draper, author of Tears of a Tiger (Simon & Schuster) | |
1995 Author Honor Titles |
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| Joyce Hansen, author of The Captive (Scholastic) | |
| Jacqueline Woodson, author of I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This (Delacorte) | |
| Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack , authors of Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League (Scholastic) | |
1995 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Meet Danitra Brown, written by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) | |
| Terea Shaffer, illustrator of The Singing Man, written by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House) |
1994
1994 Author Award Winner |
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| Angela Johnson, author of Toning the Sweep (Orchard) | |
1994 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Tom Feelings, illustrator of Soul Looks Back in Wonder, edited by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers) | |
1994 Author Honor Titles |
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| Joyce Carol Thomas, author of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins) | |
| Walter Dean Myers, author of Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic) | |
1994 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins) | |
| James Ransome, illustrator of Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, written by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster) |
1993
1993 Author Award Winner |
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| Patricia C. McKissack, author of The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Knopf) | |
1993 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Kathleen Atkins Wilson, illustrator of The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights) | |
1993 Author Honor Titles |
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| Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Mississippi Challenge (Bradbury) | |
| Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? (Scholastic) | |
| Walter Dean Myers, author of Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic) | |
1993 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Wil Clay, illustrator of Little Eight John, written by Jan Wahl (Lodestar) | |
| Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Sukey and the Mermaid, written by Robert San Souci (Four Winds) | |
| Carole Byard, illustrator of Working Cotton, written by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt) |
1992
1992 Author Award Winner |
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| Walter Dean Myers, author of Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom (HarperCollins) | |
1992 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Faith Ringgold, illustrator of Tar Beach (Crown) | |
1992 Author Honor Titles |
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| Eloise Greenfield, author of Night on Neighborhood Street, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial) | |
1992 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Ashley Bryan, illustrator of All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals (Atheneum) | |
| Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Night on Neighborhood Street, written by Eloise Greenfield (Dial) |
1991
1991 Author Award Winner |
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| Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Road to Memphis (Dial) | |
1991 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Aida, written by Leontyne Price (Harcourt) | |
1991 Author Honor Titles |
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| James Haskins, author of Black Dance in America (Crowell) | |
| Angela Johnson, author of When I Am Old with You (Orchard) |
1990
1990 Author Award Winner |
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| Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker) | |
1990 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Nathaniel Talking, written by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly) | |
1990 Author Honor Titles |
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| Eloise Greenfield, author of Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly) | |
| Virginia Hamilton, author of The Bells of Christmas, illustrated by Lambert Davis (Harcourt) | |
| Lillie Patterson, author of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement (Facts on File) | |
1990 Illustrator Honor Title |
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| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Talking Eggs, written by Robert San Souci (Dial) |
1989
1989 Author Award Winner |
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| Walter Dean Myers, author of Fallen Angels (Scholastic) | |
1989 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Mirandy and Brother Wind, written by Patricia McKissack (Knopf) | |
1989 Author Honor Titles |
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| James Berry, author of A Thief in the Village and Other Stories (Orchard) | |
| Virginia Hamilton, author of Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Knopf) | |
1989 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Pat Cummings, illustrator of Storm in the Night, written by Mary Stolz (Harper) | |
| Amos Ferguson, illustrator of Under the Sunday Tree, written by Eloise Greenfield (Harper) |
1988
1988 Author Award Winner |
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| Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Friendship (Dial) | |
1988 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| John Steptoe, illustrator of Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Lothrop) | |
1988 Author Honor Titles |
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| Alexis De Veaux, author of An Enchanted Hair Tale (Harper) | |
| Julius Lester, author of The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Dial) | |
1988 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Ashley Bryan, illustrator of What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan) | |
| JoeSam, illustrator of The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al (Children’s Press) |
1987
1987 Author Award Winner |
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| Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, illustrated by Catherine Stock (Lothrop) | |
1987 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Half a Moon and One Whole Star, written by Crescent Dragonwagon (Macmillan) | |
1987 Author Honor Titles |
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| Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Atheneum) | |
| Joyce Hansen, author of Which Way Freedom (Walker) | |
1987 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Atheneum) | |
| Pat Cummings, author and illustrator of C.L.O.U.D.S. (Lothrop) |
1986
1986 Author Award Winner |
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| Virginia Hamilton, author of The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf) | |
1986 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Patchwork Quilt, written by Valerie Flournoy (Dial) | |
1986 Author Honor Titles |
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| Virginia Hamilton, author of Junius Over Far (Harper) | |
| Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Trouble’s Child (Lothrop) | |
1986 Illustrator Honor Title |
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| Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, written by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf) |
1985
1985 Author Award Winner |
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| Walter Dean Myers, author of Motown and Didi (Viking) | |
1985 Author Honor Titles |
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| Candy Dawson Boyd, author of Circle of Gold (Apple/Scholastic) | |
| Virginia Hamilton, author of A Little Love (Philomel) |
1984
1984 Author Award Winner |
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| Lucille Clifton, author of Everett Anderson’s Goodbye, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi (Holt) | |
1984 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Pat Cummings, illustrator of My Mama Needs Me, written by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop) | |
1984 Author Honor Titles |
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| Virginia Hamilton, author of The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (Harper) | |
| James Haskins, author of Lena Horne (Coward-McCann) | |
| Joyce Carol Thomas, author of Bright Shadow (Avon) | |
| Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Because We Are (Lothrop) | |
1984 Special Citation |
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| The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled by Coretta Scott King (Newmarket Press) |
1983
1983 Author Award Winner |
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| Virginia Hamilton, author of Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Amistad) | |
1983 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Peter Magubane, photographer and author of Black Child (Knopf) | |
1983 Author Honor Title |
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| Julius Lester, author of This Strange New Feeling (Dial) | |
1983 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| John Steptoe, illustrator of All the Colors of the Race, written by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop) | |
| Ashley Bryan, illustrator of I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals (Atheneum) | |
| Pat Cummings, illustrator of Just Us Women, written by Jeanette Caines (Harper) |
1982
1982 Author Award Winner |
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| Mildred D. Taylor, author of Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Dial) | |
1982 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| John Steptoe, illustrator of Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, written by Rosa Guy (Delacorte) | |
1982 Author Honor Titles |
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| Alice Childress, author of Rainbow Jordan (Coward-McCann) | |
| Kristin Hunter, author of Lou in the Limelight (Scribner) | |
| Mary E. Mebane, author of Mary: An Autobiography (Viking) | |
1982 Illustrator Honor Title |
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| Tom Feelings, illustrator of Daydreamers, written by Eloise Greenfield (Dial) |
1981
1981 Author Award Winner |
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| Sidney Poitier, author of This Life (Knopf) | |
1981 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Ashley Bryan, illustrator of Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (Atheneum) | |
1981 Author Honor Title |
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| Alexis De Veaux, author of Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday (Harper) | |
1981 Illustrator Honor Titles |
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| Carole Byard, illustrator of Grandmama’s Joy, written by Eloise Greenfield (Collins) | |
| Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Count on Your Fingers African Style, written by Claudia Zaslavsky (Crowell) |
1980
1980 Author Award Winner |
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| Walter Dean Myers, author of The Young Landlords (Viking) | |
1980 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Carole Byard, illustrator of Cornrows, written by Camille Yarbrough (Coward-McCann) | |
1980 Author Honor Titles |
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| Berry Gordy, author of Movin’ Up (Harper) | |
| Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little, authors of Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir (Harper) | |
| James Haskins, author of Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission (Lothrop) | |
| James Haskins, author of James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man (Dodd) | |
| Ellease Southerland, author of Let the Lion Eat Straw (Scribner) |
1979
1979 Author Award Winner |
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| Ossie Davis, author of Escape to Freedom (Viking) | |
1979 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Tom Feelings, illustrator of Something on My Mind, written by Nikki Grimes (Dial) | |
1979 Author Honor Titles |
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| Lillie Patterson, author of Benjamin Banneker (Abingdon) | |
| Jeanne W. Peterson, author of I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf (Harper) | |
| Virginia Hamilton, author of Justice and Her Brothers (Greenwillow) | |
| Carol Fenner, author of Skates of Uncle Richard (Random) |
1978
1978 Author Award Winner |
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| Eloise Greenfield, author of Africa Dream, illustrated by Carole Byard (Crowell) | |
1978 Illustrator Award Winner |
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| Carole Bayard, illustrator of Africa Dream, written by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell) | |
1978 Author Honor Titles |
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| William J. Faulkner, author of The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be (Follett) | |
| Frankcina Glass, author of Marvin and Tige (St. Martin’s) | |
| Eloise Greenfield, author of Mary McCleod Bethune (Crowell) | |
| James Haskins, author of Barbara Jordan (Dial) | |
| Lillie Patterson, author of Coretta Scott King (Garrard) | |
| Ruth Ann Stewart, author of Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington (Doubleday) |
1977
1977 Author Award Winner |
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| James Haskins, author of The Story of Stevie Wonder (Lothrop) | |
1977 Author Honor Titles |
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| Lucille Clifton, author of Everett Anderson's Friend (Holt) | |
| Mildred D. Taylor, author of Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry (Dial) | |
| Clarance N. Blake and Donald F. Martin, authors of Quick Book on Black America (Houghton) |
1976
1976 Author Award Winner |
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| Pearl Bailey, author of Duey’s Tale (Harcourt) | |
1976 Author Honor Titles |
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| Shirley Graham, author of Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa (Messner) | |
| Eloise Greenfield, author of Paul Robeson (Crowell) | |
| Walter Dean Myers, author of Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff (Viking) | |
| Mildred D. Taylor, author of Song of the Trees (Dial) |
1975
1975 Author Award Winner |
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| Dorothy Robinson, author of The Legend of Africana (Johnson Publishing) |
1974
1974 Author Award WInner |
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| Sharon Bell Mathis, author of Ray Charles, illustrated by George Ford (Crowell) | |
1974 Illustrator Award Winner (Inaugural) |
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| George Ford, illustrator of Ray Charles, written by Sharon Bell Mathis (Crowell) | |
1974 Author Honor Titiles |
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| Alice Childress, author of A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (Coward-McCann) | |
| Lucille Clifton, author of Do You Remember? (Dutton) | |
| Louise Crane, author of Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women (Lippincott) | |
| Kristin Hunter, author of Guest in the Promised Land (Scribner) | |
| John Nagenda, author of Mukasa (MacMillan) |
1973
1973 Author Award Winner |
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| Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, authors of I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (Putnam) |
1972
1972 Author Award Winner |
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| Elton C. Fax, author of 17 Black Artists (Dodd) |
1971
1971 Author Award Winner |
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| Charlemae Rollins, author of Black Troubador: Langston Hughes (Rand McNally) | |
1971 Author Honor Titles |
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| Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Random) | |
| Shirley Chisholm, author of Unbought and Unbossed (Houghton) | |
| Mari Evans, author of I Am a Black Woman (Morrow) | |
| Lorenz Graham, author of Every Man Heart Lay Down (Crowell) | |
| June Jordan and Terri Bush, authors of The Voice of the Children (Holt) | |
| Gladys Groom and Bonnie Grossman, authors of Black Means (Hill & Wang) | |
| Margaret W. Peters, author of Ebony Book of Black Achievement (Johnson Publishing) | |
| Janice May Udry, author of Mary Jo's Grandmother (Whitman) |
1970
1970 Author Award Winner |
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| Lillie Patterson, author of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (Garrard) |
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