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Coretta Scott King Award |
Coretta Scott King Award
Established in 1969, this award commemorates the life and work of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors Mrs. King "for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood." It is presented annually at the American Library Association, to a black author (A) and illustrator (I) whose works "encourage and promote" world unity and peace, and serve as an inspiration to young people on the achievement of their goals. A plaque honorarium and an encyclopedia are presented as gifts. All items prefixed with an asterisk (*) are held by James G. Gee Library, Texas A&M University--Commerce.
2002 Author Award Winner
*Land, The by Mildred D. Taylor (Penguin Putnam/Phyllis Fogelman Books) [Yth. T217]
Honor Books
*Carver: a Life in Poems by Sharon G. Flake (Front Street). [Juv. 811 N335c]
*Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake (Hyperion Books for Children/Jump at the Sun) [Juv. F599mo]
2002 Illustrator Award Winner
*Goin’ Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator.
Written by Patricia C. McKissack (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/An Anne Schwartz Book) [Juv.M217go]
Honor Books
*Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrated by Bryan Collier. Written by Doreen Rappaport (Hyperion Books for Children/Jump at the Sun) [Juv. Bio. K585r]
2001 Author Award Winner
*Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam) [Juv. W868m]
Honor Books
*Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Harcourt/Gulliver) [Juv. 323 P6561]
2001 Illustrator Award Winner
Uptown by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt) [Juv. C69u]
Honor Books
*Freedom River, ill. by Bryan Collier; written by Doreen Rappaport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion) [Juv. Bio. P226r]
*Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; text by Anne Rockwell (Random House) [Juv. Bio. T777r]
*Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys; Illustrated by E. B. Lewis; Text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster)
[Juv. H83125v]
2000 Author Award Winner
*Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) [Juv. Newbery C942b]
Honor Books
*Francie by Karen English (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [Juv. En3bf]
*Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia (Pat) C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic Press) [Juv. 639.2 M217b]
*Monster by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins) [Yth. M992mo]
2000 Illustrator Award Winner
*In the Time of the Drums , ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children) [Juv. Si164i]
Honor Books
*My Rows and Piles of Coins , ill. by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion Books)[Juv. M736m]
*Black Cat by Christopher Myers (Scholastic) [Juv. M9917b]
1999 Author Award Winner
*Heaven by Angela Johnson (Simon and Schuster) [Juv. J6311h]
Honor Book
*Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books) [Juv. G883j]
*Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan (Henry Holt and Company) [Juv. 305.5 H198b]
*The Other Side: Shorter Poems byAngela Johnson (Orchard Books)
[Juv. 811 J63o]
1999 Illustrator Award Winner
*I see the rhythm , ill. by Michelle Wood; text by Toynomi Igus (Children's Book Press). [Juv. 780 Ig8i]
Honor Books
*I Have Heard of a Land , ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins) [Juv. T3645i]
*The Bat Boy and His Violin , ill. by E. B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis
(Simon and Schuster) [Juv. C943b]
*Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra , ill by Brian Pinkney; text by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children) [Juv. Bio El56p]
1998 Author Award Winner
*Forged By Fire , by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum) [Yth D7915f]
Honor Books
*Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion) [Yth Bio R928h]
*I thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic, Inc) [Juv. H215i]
1998 Illustrator Award Winner
*In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers , ill. by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder (Lee and Low) [Juv. 811 In1]
*Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry , by Ashley Bryan (Jean Karl/Atheneum) [Juv. 811 As35]
*Harlem , ill. by Christopher Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers
(Scholastic Books) [Juv. 811 M992h]
*The Hunterman and the Crocodile , by Baba Wague Diakite
(Scholastic Books) [Juv. 398.2 D54h]
1997 Author Award Winner
*Slam! ByWalter Dean Myers (Scholastic) [Yth M992sl]
Honor Book
*Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc) [Juv. 973.7 M217r]
1997 Illustrator Award Winner
*Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan
Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers) [Juv. Bio. T989sch]
Honor Books
*The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children , ill by Gregorie
Christie; edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee and Low Books Inc.) [Juv 811 Pi8]
*Running the Road to ABC , ill by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture (Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers) [Juv L918r]
*Neeny Coming, Neeny Going , ill by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English (Bridge Water Books) [Juv. En36n]
1996 Author Award Winner
*Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press) [Juv. 398.2 H18h]
Honor Books
*The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) [Juv. C942w]
*Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia (Delacorte)
[Yth W6757l]
*From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)[on order]
1996 Illustrator Award Winner
*The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (Dial Books for Young Readers) [Juv 759.13 F321m]
Honor Books
*Her Stories , ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)[Juv. 398.2 H18h]
*The Faithful Friend , ill by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Children) [Juv. 398.21 Sa58f]
1995 Author Award Winner
*Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. and
Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.) [Juv 975 M217c]
Honor Books
*The Captive by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic) [on order]
*I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)
[Yth W868i]
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.)
1995 Illustrator Award Winner
*The Creation , ill. by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House) [Juv 811 J633c]
Honor Books
*The Singing Man , ill. by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House) [Juv. 398.21 M467s]
*Meet Danitra Brown , ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes (Mulberry Press) [Juv. 811g G882me]
1994 Author Award Winner
*Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson (Orchard) [Yth J6311t]
Honor Books
*Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; ill. by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins) [on order]
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) [Yth 811 So83]
Honor Books
*Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; ill. by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins) [on order]
Uncle Jed's Barbershop , ill. by James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon and Schuster)
1993 Author Award Winner
*Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatura by Patricia A. McKissack (Knopf) [Juv. M217d]
Honor Books
*Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (Bradbury) [on order]
*Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic) [on order]
*Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic) [Yth M992so]
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) [on order]
Honor Books
*Little Eight John , ill. by Wil Clay; text by Jan Wahl (Lodestar) [on order]
*Sukey and the Mermaid , ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Four Winds) [Juv. 398.21 Sa58s]
*Working Cotton , ill. by Carole Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams(Harcourt) [Juv. W6755w]
1992 Author Award Winner
Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (Harper Collins)
Honor Book
*Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial) [on order]
1992 Illustrator Award Winner
*Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Crown) [Juv R473t]
Honor Books
*All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African American Spirituals , ill. and selected by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum) [Juv. 782.25 Al51]
*Night on Neighborhood Street , ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist text by Eloise
Greenfield (Dial) [on order]
1991 Author Award Winner
*The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial) [Yth T217qr]
Honor Books
Black Dance in America by James Haskins (Crowell)
*When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson (Orchard) [Juv. J6311w]
1991 Illustrator Award Winner
*Aida , ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price (Harcourt)
[Juv. 782.1 P931a]
1990 Author Award Winner
*A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. and
Frederick L. McKissack (Walker) [Juv. 331.88 M217l]
Honor Books
*Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
(Black Butterfly) [Juv. 811.5 G837n]
The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
*Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson (Facts on File) [on order]
1990 Illustrator Award Winner
*Nathaniel Talking ,ill by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly)
[Juv. 811.5 G837n]
Honor Book
*The Talking Eggs ,ill. by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci (Dial) [Juv 398.2 Sa54t]
1989 Author Award Winner
*Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic) [Yth M992ew]
Honor Books
*A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry (Orchard)
[Yth B4584t]
*Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia
Hamilton (Knopf)[Yth Bio B935h]
1989 Illustrator Award Winner
*Mirandy and Brother Wind , ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)[Juv M217m]
Honor Books
*Under the Sunday Tree , ill. by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield (Harper) [Juv. 759.9729 F381u]
*Storm in the Night , ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz (Harper)
[Juv. St69s]
1988 Author Award Winner
*The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor (Dial) [Juv. T217f 1998]
Honor Books
*An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux (Harper) [Juv. D492e]
*The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Juluis Lester (Dial) [Yth 398.2 L567t]
1988 Illustrator Award Winner
*Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe (Lothrop) [Juv. St45mu]
Honor Books
*What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals ,ill. by Ashley Bryan; selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan) [Yth 783.6 W55b]
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 byMildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop) [Juv W17j 1991]
Honor Books
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
*Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen (Walker) [Juv. H215w]
1987 Illustrator Award Winner
*Half a Moon and One Whole Star , ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent
Dragonwagon (Macmillan) [Juv. D787gv 1990]
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) [Juv. C9144c]
1986 Author Award Winner
*The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf) [Juv. 398.2 H18p]
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) [Juv. F668p]
Honor Book
*The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf) [Juv. 398.2 Hi8p]
1985 Author Award Winner
*Motown and Did i byWalter Dean Myers (Viking) [Juv. M992m]
Honor Books
*Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd (Apple/Scholastic) [Juv. B6915ci 1984]
*A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel) [Yth H183l]
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) [Yth H183ma]
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) [Juv. W17m]
1983 Author Award Winner
*Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel) [Yth H183s]
Honor Book
*This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester (Dial) [Yth L566t]
1983 Illustrator Award Winner
*Black Child by Peter Magubane (Knopf) [Yth 968 M276b]
Honor Books
*All the Colors of the Race , ill. by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop) [Juv. 811.5 Ad65a]
*I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals , ill. by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum) [Juv. 784.75 B84i]
*Just Us Women , ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines (Harper)
[Juv. C124j]
1982 Author Award Winner
*Let the Circle Be Unbroken byMildred D. Taylor (Dial) [Yth T217l]
Honor Books
*Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress (Coward-McCann) [Yth C437r]
Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter (Scribner)
*Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane (Viking) [Yth Bio. M464]
1982 Illustrator Award Winner
*Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal , ill. by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy (Delacorte) [Juv. 398.2 D624m]
Honor Book
*Daydreamers , ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)
[Juv. 811.5 F321d]
1981 Author Award Winner
*This Life by Sidney Poitier (Knopf) [Pn2287 .P57a37]
Honor Book
*Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)
[Yth Bio. H717d]
1981 Illustrator Award Winner
*Beat the Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum) [Juv. 398.2 B38]
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) [Yth M992y]
Honor Books
Movin' Up by Berry Gordy (Harper)
*Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little (Harper) [Juv. 920 G837c 1979]
Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission by James Haskins (Lothrop)
*James Van Derzee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins (Dodd) [Tr140 .V37h37]
*Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (Scribner) [PZ4 .S7276le]
1980 Illustrator Award Winner
*Cornrows ,ill. by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough (Coward-McCann) [Juv. Ya21c]
1979 Author Award Winner
*Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis (Viking) [Juv. 812.5 D296e]
Honor Books
Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson (Abingdon)
*I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson [Juv 362.7 P442i]
*Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton (Greenwillow)
[Yth H183ju 1989]
*Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner (Random) [Juv F3625s]
1979 Illustrator Award Winner
*Something on My Mind , ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes (Dial) [Juv. 811.5 F321s]
1978 Author Award Winner
*Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield; ill. by Carole Bayard (Crowell)
[Juv. G837a 1977]
Honor Books
*The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to
Be by William J. Faulkner (Follet) [Juv 398.2 F273d]
*Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass (St. Martin's) [Pz4 .G5494Mar]
Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)
*Barbara Jordan by James Haskins (Dial) [Yth Bio. J761h]
Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)
*Portia: the Life of Portia Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart (Doubleday) [E185.97 .P595s83]
1978 Illustrator Award Winner
*Africa Dream , ill. by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell) [Juv. G837a 1977]
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) [Juv B154d]
1976 Illustrator Award Winner
No Award
1975 Author Award Winner
*The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson (Johnson Publishing)
[Juv. R5615l]
1975 Illustrator Award Winner
No Award
1974 Author Award Winner
*Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; ill. by George Ford (Crowell)
[Juv. Bio. C385m]
1974 Illustrator Award Winner
* Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; ill. by George Ford (Crowell)
[Juv. Bio. C385m]
(Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only)
1973 Award Winner
*I Never Had It Made as told to Alfred Duckett (Putnam) [GV865 .R6a29 1972]
1972 Award Winner
17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax (Dodd)
1971 Award Winner
*Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins (Rand McNally)[P53515 .U274z77; Yth Bio. H874r]
1970 Award Winner
*Martin Luther King, Jr.:Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)
[Juv. Bio. K585p]
This page compiled by Marsha Keenan Last update June 2002