The Coretta Scott King Awards

Commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and honoring his widow, Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination in continuing the work for peace and world brotherhood, the Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by a task force of the American Library Association. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream.

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·For Narrative:
·Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis--Winner!
·Honor Books
·November Blues by Sharon Draper
·Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr.
·For Illustration:
·Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan--Winner!
·Honor Books
·The Secret Olivia Told Me illustrated by Nancy Devard, written by N. Joy
·Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon

·For Narrative:
·Copper Sun by Sharon Draper--Winner!
·Honor Books
·The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
·For Illustration:
·Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Jazz illustrated by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers
·Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes illustrated by Benny Andrews

·For Narrative:
·Day of Tears by Julius Lester--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Maritcha by Tonya Bolden
·Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
·A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
·For Illustration:
·Ellington Was Not A Street illustrated by Kadir Nelson--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni
·Brothers in Hope illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, written by Mary Williams

·For Narrative:
·Remember: The Journey To School Integration by Toni Morrison--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
·The Legend Of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
·Who Am I Without Him? by Sharon G Flake
·For Illustration:
·Ellington Was Not A Street illustrated by Kadir Nelson
·Honor Books
·God Bless the Child illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
·The People Could Fly illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

·For Narrative:
·The First Part Last by Angela Johnson--Winner!
·Honor Books
·The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
·Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack
·Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
·For Illustration:
·Beautiful Blackbird written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan --Winner!
·Honor Books
·Almost to Freedom illustrated by Colin Bootman, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
·Thunder Rose illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Jerdine Nolen

·For Narrative:
·Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes--Winner!
·Honor Books
·The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
·Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
·For Illustration:
·Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman illustrated by E.B. Lewis --Winner!
·Honor Books
·Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
·Visiting Langston illustrated by Bryan Collier

·For Narrative:
·The Land by Mildred D. Taylor--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
·Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
·For Illustration:
·Goin' Someplace Special illustrated by Jerry Pinkney --Winner!
·Honor Book
·Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrated by Bryan Collier

·For Narrative:
·Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson--Winner!
·Honor Book
·Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
·For Illustration:
·Uptown written and illustrated by Bryan Collier--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Freedom River illustrated by Bryan Collier
·Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth illustrated by Gregory Christie
·Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys illustrated by E.B. Lewis

·For Narrative:
·Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
·Monster by Walter Dean Myers
·Francie by Karen English
·For Illustration:
·In the Time of the Drums illustrated by Brian Pinkney--Winner!
·Honor Books
·My Rows and Piles of Coins illustrated by E.B. Lewis
·Black Cat written and illustrated by Christopher Myers

·For Narrative:
·Heaven by Angela Johnson--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
·Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan
·The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson
·For Illustration:
·I See the Rhythm illustrated by Michele Wood--Winner!
·Honor Books
·I Have Heard of a Land illustrated by Floyd Cooper Thomas
·The Bat Boy and His Violin illustrated by E.B. Lewis
· Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra illustrated by Brian Pinkney

·For Narrative:
·Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper--Winner!
·Honor Books
· Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins
·I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen
·For Illustration:
· In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers illustrated by Javaka Steptoe--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry illustrated by Ashley Bryan
·Harlem illustrated by Christopher Myers
· The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale illustrated by Baba Wagué Diakité

·For Narrative:
·Slam! by Walter Dean Myers--Winner!
·Honor Books
· Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
·For Illustration:
· Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman illustrated by Jerry Pinkney--Winner!
·Honor Books
·The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children illustrated by Gregory Christie
·Running the Road to ABC illustrated by Reynold Ruffins
· Neeny Coming, Neeny Going illustrated by Synthia Saint James

·For Narrative:
·Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton--Winner!
·Honor Books
· The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
·Like Sisters on the Home Front by Rita Williams-Garcia
·From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
·For Illustration:
· The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo illustrated by Tom Feelings--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
·The Faithful Friend illustrated by Brian Pinkney

·For Narrative:
·Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack--Winner!
·Honor Books
· The Captive by Joyce Hansen
·I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
·Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
·For Illustration:
·The Creation illustrated by James E. Ransome--Winner!
·Honor Books
· The Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folktale illustrated by Terea Shaffer
·Meet Danitra Brown illustrated by Floyd Cooper

·For Narrative:
·Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas
·Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
·For Illustration:
·Soul Looks Back in Wonder illustrated by Tom Feelings--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea illustrated by Floyd Cooper
·Uncle Jed's Barbershop illustrated by James Ransome

·For Narrative:
·The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter
·Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
·Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
·For Illustration:
·The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Little Eight John illustrated by Wil Clay
·Sukey and the Mermaid illustrated by Brian Pinkney
·Working Cotton illustrated by Carole Byard

·For Narrative:
·Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers--Winner!
·Honor Book
·Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield
·For Illustration:
·Tar Beach illustrated by Faith Ringgold--Winner!
·Honor Books
·All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals illustrated by Ashley Bryan
·Night on Neighborhood Street illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

·For Narrative:
·The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins
·When I Am Old with You by Angela Johnson
·For Illustration:
·Aida illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
·The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
· Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson
·For Illustration:
·Nathaniel Talking illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist--Winner!
·Honor Book
·The Talking Eggs illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

·For Narrative:
·Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers--Winner!
·Honor Books
·A Thief in the Village and Other Stories of Jamaica by James Berry
· Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton
·For Illustration:
·Mirandy and Brother Wind illustrated by Jerry Pinkney--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Under the Sunday Tree illustrated by Amos Ferguson
·Storm in the Night illustrated by Pat Cummings

·For Narrative:
·The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor--Winner!
·Honor Books
·An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
·The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester
·For Illustration:
·Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe--Winner!
·Honor Books
·What a Morning: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals illustrated by Ashley Bryan
·The Invisible Hunters/Los Cazadores Invisibles: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua illustrated by Joe Sam

·For Narrative:
·Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
·Which Way Freedom? by Joyce Hansen
·For Illustration:
·Half a Moon and One Whole Star illustrated by Jerry Pinkney--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Tales illustrated by Ashley Bryan
·C.L.O.U.D.S. illustrated by Pat Cummings

·For Narrative:
·The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Junius over Far by Virginia Hamilton
·Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter
·For Illustration:
·The Patchwork Quilt illustrated by Jerry Pinkney--Winner!
·Honor Book
·The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

·For Narrative:
·Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
·A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton

·For Narrative:
·Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton--Winner!
·The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Coretta Scott King (Special Citation)
·Honor Books
·The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
·Lena Horne by James Haskins
·Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas
·Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter
·For Illustration:
·My Mama Needs Me illustrated by Pat Cummings--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton--Winner!
·Honor Book
·This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
·For Illustration:
·Black Child illustrated by Peter Magubane--Winner!
·Honor Books
·All the Colors of the Race: Poems illustrated by John Steptoe
·I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals illustrated by Ashley Bryan
·Just Us Women illustrated by Pat Cummings

·For Narrative:
·Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
·Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
·Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane
·For Illustration:
·Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal illustrated by John Steptoe--Winner!
·Honor Book
·Daydreamers illustrated by Tom Feelings

·For Narrative:
·This Life by Sidney Poitier--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux
·For Illustration:
·Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum illustrated by Ashley Bryan--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Grandmama's Joy illustrated by Carole Byard
·Count on Your Fingers African Style illustrated by Wangechi Mutu

·For Narrative:
·The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Movin' Up by Berry Gordy
·Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
·Andrew Young, Man with a Mission by James Haskins
·James Van Derzee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins
·Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
·For Illustration:
·Cornrows illustrated by Carol Byard--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis--Winner!
·Honor Books
·Benjamin Banneker, Genius of Early America by Lillie Patterson
·I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf by Jeanne Peterson
·Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
·The Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner
·For Illustration:
·Something on My Mind illustrated by Tom Feelings--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield--Winner!
·Honor Books
·The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner
·Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass
·Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
·Barbara Jordan by James Haskins
·Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson
·Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth A. Stewart
·For Illustration:
·Africa Dream illustrated by Carole Byard--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis--Winner!
·For Illustration:
·Ray Charles illustrated by George Ford--Winner!
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Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only.

·For Narrative:
·I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins--Winner!

·For Narrative:
·Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson--Winner!