Coretta Scott King Award-winning Books

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards

The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Committee of the American Library Association's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table. The award (or awards) is given to an African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution.

Coretta Scott King Award and Honor book winners are listed for the last five years followed by the Award winners from the first year they were awarded through the year 2000.  The list of Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and Honor books follows the list of the Author Award.
 

The Coretta Scott King Author Award

2005 Winner - Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison

2005 Honor Books:
The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson

2004 Winner - The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

2004 Honor Book:
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack

2003 Winner - Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

2003 Honor Books:
The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
Talkin’ About Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes

2002 Winner - The Land by Mildred Taylor

2002 Honor Books:
Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001 Winner - Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

2001 Honor Book:
Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

2000    Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

1999    Heaven by Angela Johnson

1998    Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper

1997    Slam! by Walter Dean Myers

1996    Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton

1995    Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. and Frederick McKissack

1994    Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson

1993    The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack

1992    Now is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers

1991    The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor

1990    A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. and Frederick McKissack

1989    Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

1988    The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor

1987    Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter

1986    The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton

1985    Motown and Didi: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers

1984    Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton

1983    Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982    Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor

1981    This Life by Sidney Poitier

1980    The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers

1979    Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis

1978    Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield

1977    The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins

1976    Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey

1975    The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson

1974    Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis

1973    I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robison as told to Alfred Duckett

1972    Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax

1971    Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins

1970    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson

The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

2005 Winner - Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; illustrated by Kadir Nelson

2002 Winner - Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

2002 Honor Book:
Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappoport; illustrated by Bryan Collier

2001 Winner - Uptown by Bryan Collier

2001 Honor Books:
Freedom River by Bryan Collier
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard; illustrated by E.B. Lewis

2000    In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson; illustrated by Brian Pinkney

1999    i see the rhythm by Toyomi Igus; illustrated by Michele Wood

1998    In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Alan Schroeder; illustrated by Javaka Steptoe

1997    Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

1996    The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings

1995    The Creation by James Weldon Johnson; illustrated by James Ransome

1994    Soul Look Back in Wonder: Collection of African-American Poets edited by Phyllis Fogelman; illustrated by Tom Feelings

1993    The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by David A. Anderson; illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson

1992    Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

1991    Aida by Leontyne Price; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

1990    Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

1989    Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

1988    Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe

1987    Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

1986    The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flourney; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

1985    No award given

1984    My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter; illustrated by Pat Cummings

1983    Black Child by Peter Magubane

1982    Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal by Rosa Guy; illustrated by John Steptoe

1981    Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan

1980    Cornrows by Camille Yarborough; illustrated by Carole Byard

1979    Something on My Mind by Nikki Grimes; illustrated by Tom Feelings

Last updated: March 19, 2005.

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