Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Author Winner

• Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi

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• An American Story illustrated by Dare Coulter

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• Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson

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• Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual illustrated by Frank Morrison

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• Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford

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• Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford

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• Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

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• R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul by Frank Morrison

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• New Kid by Jerry Craft

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• The Undefeated, written by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

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• A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield

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• Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander

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• Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

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• The Stuff of Stars by Ekua Holmes

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• March: Book Three by John Lewis

Author Honor

• As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds
• Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Illustrator Winner

• Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe

Illustrator Honor

• Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
• Freedom in Congo Square illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
• In Plain Sight illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Author Winner

• Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia

Author Honor

• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
• X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon

Illustrator Winner

• Trombone Shorty by Bryan Collier

Illustrator Honor

• The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
• Last Stop on Market Street, illustrated by Christian Robinson, written by Matt de la Peña

Author Winner

• brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Author Honor

• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson
• How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

Illustrator Winner

• Firebird by Christopher Myers

Illustrator Honor

• JOSEPHINE: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker illustrated by Christian Robinson written by Patricia Hruby Powell
• Little Melba and Her Big Trombone illustrated by Frank Morrison, written by Katheryn Russell-Brown

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• P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia

Author Honor

• Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers
• Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes

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• Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me by Bryan Collier

Illustrator Honor

• Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson

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• Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Author Honor

• Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
• No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Micheaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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• I, Too, Am America by Bryan Collier

Illustrator Honor

• Ellen's Broom by Daniel Minter
• H. O. R. S. E. by Christopher Myers
• I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. by Kadir Nelson

Author Winner

• Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson

Author Honor

• The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield
• Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack

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• Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane W. Evans

Illustrator Honor

• Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson

Author Winner

• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Author Honor

• Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
• Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Yummy by G. Neri

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• Dave the Potter by Bryan Collier

Illustrator Honor

• Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix by Javaka Steptoe

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• Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Author Honor

• Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis

Illustrator Winner

• My People by Charles S. Smith, Jr.

Illustrator Honor

• The Negro Speaks of Rivers by E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

Author Winner

• We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

Author Honor

• Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith
• The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas
• Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrator Winner

• The Blacker the Berry by Floyd Cooper

Illustrator Honor

• We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro Baseball League by Kadir Nelson
• The Moon Over Star by Jerry Pinkney
• Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Sean Qualls

Author Winner

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

Author Honor

• November Blues by Sharon Draper
• Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr.

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• Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals by Ashley Bryan

Illustrator Honor

• The Secret Olivia Told Me by Nancy Devard
• Jazz On A Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon

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• Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

Author Honor

• The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes

Illustrator Winner

• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Kadir Nelson

Illustrator Honor

• Jazz by Christopher Myers
• Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes by Benny Andrews

Author Winner

• Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester

Author Honor

• Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
• Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
• A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson

Illustrator Winner

• Rosa by Bryan Collier

Illustrator Honor

• Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by R. Gregory Christie

Author Winner

• Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison

Author Honor

• 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

Illustrator Winner

• Ellington Was Not a Street by Kadir Nelson

Illustrator Honor

• God Bless the Child by Jerry Pinkney
• The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Leo and Diane Dillon

Author Winner

• The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Author Honor

• Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
• The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper

Illustrator Winner

• Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan

Illustrator Honor

• Almost to Freedom by Colin Bootman
• Thunder Rose by Kadir Nelson
• Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles by Leo and Diane Dillon

Author Winner

• Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

Author Honor

• The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
• Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes

Illustrator Winner

• Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by E. B. Lewis

Illustrator Honor

• Visiting Langston by Bryan Collier

Author Winner

• The Land by Mildred Taylor

Author Honor

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

Illustrator Winner

• Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator Honor

• Martin's Big Words by Bryan Collier

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• Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

Author Honor

• Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Illustrator Winner

• Uptown by Bryan Collier

Illustrator Honor

• Freedom River by Bryan Collier
• Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by R. Gregory Christie
• Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by E. B. Lewis

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• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Author Honor

• Francie by Karen English
• Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patrica C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

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• In the Time of the Drums by Brian Pinkney

Illustrator Honor

• My Rows and Piles of Coins by E. B. Lewis

• Black Cat by Christopher Myers

Author Winner

• Heaven by Angela Johnson

Author Honor

• 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

Illustrator Winner

• i see the rhythm by Michele Wood

Illustrator Honor

• I Have Heard of a Land by Floyd Cooper
• The Bat Boy and His Violin by E. B. Lewis
• Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Brian Pinkney

Author Winner

• Forged By Fire by Sharon Draper

Author Honor

• 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

Illustrator Winner

• In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka Steptoe

Illustrator Honor

• Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan
• Harlem by Christopher Myers
• The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wagué Diakité

Author Winner

• Slam by Walter Dean Myers

Author Honor

• Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack

Illustrator Winner

• Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator Honor

• The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children by Gregorie Christie
• Running the Road to ABC by Reynold Ruffins
• Neeny Coming, Neeny Going by Synthia Saint James

Author Winner

• Her Stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales by Virginia Hamilton

Author Honor

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
• From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson

Illustrator Winner

• The Middle Passage by Tom Feelings

Illustrator Honor

• Her Stories by Leo and Diane Dillon
• The Faithful Friend by Brian Pinkney

Author Winner

• Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack

Author Honor

• The Captive by Joyce Hansen
• I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
• Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack

Illustrator Winner

• The Creation by James Ransome

Illustrator Honor

• The Singing Man by Teresa Shaffer
• Meet Danitra Brown by Floyd Cooper

Author Winner

• Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson

Author Honor

• Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas
• Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers

Illustrator Winner

• Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Tom Feelings

Illustrator Honor

• Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Floyd Cooper
• Uncle Jed's Barbershop by James Ransome

Author Winner

• Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack

Author Honor

• Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
• Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter

Illustrator Winner

• The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by Kathleen Atkins Wilson

Illustrator Honor

• Little Eight John by Wil Clay
• Sukey and the Mermaid by Brian Pinkney
• Working Cotton by Carole Byard

Author Winner

• Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers

Author Honor

• Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield

Illustrator Winner

• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

Illustrator Honor

• All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African American Spirituals by Ashley Bryan
• Night on Neighborhood Street by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Author Winner

• The Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor

Author Honor

• Black Dance in America by James Haskins
• When I Am Old with You by Angela Johnson

Illustrator Winner

• Aida by Leo and Diane Dillon

Author Winner

• A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack

Author Honor

• Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
• The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
• Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson

Illustrator Winner

• Nathaniel Talking by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Illustrator Honor

• The Talking Eggs by Jerry Pinkney

Author Winner

• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Author Honor

• A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry
• Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton

Illustrator Winner

• Mirandy and Brother Wind by Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator Honor

• Under the Sunday Tree by Amos Ferguson
• Storm in the Night by Pat Cummings

Author Winner

• The Friendship by Mildred Taylor

Author Honor

• An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
• The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester

Illustrator Winner

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

Illustrator Honor

• What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals by Ashley Bryan
• The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua by JoeSam

Author Winner

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

Author Honor

• Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
• Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen

Illustrator Winner

• Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator Honor

• Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
• C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings

Author Winner

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

Author Honor

• Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
• Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter

Illustrator Winner

• The Patchwork Quilt by Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator Honor

• The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Leo and Diane Dillon

Author Winner

• Motown and Didi: a love story by Walter Dean Myers

Author Honor

• Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
• A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton

Author Winner

• Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton

Author Honor

• 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

Author Special

• The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr by Coretta Scott King (editor)

Illustrator Winner

• My Mama Needs Me by Pat Cummings

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• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

Author Honor

• This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester

Illustrator Winner

• Black Child by Peter Magubane

Illustrator Honor

• All the Colors of the Race by John Steptoe
• I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals by Ashley Bryan
• Just Us Women by Pat Cummings

Author Winner

• Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor

Author Honor

• Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
• Lou In the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
• Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane

Illustrator Winner

• Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal by John Steptoe

Illustrator Honor

• Daydreamers by Tom Feelings

Author Winner

• This Life by Sidney Poitier

Author Honor

• Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux

Illustrator Winner

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

Illustrator Honor

• Grandmama's Joy by Carole Byard
• Count on Your Fingers African Style by Jerry Pinkney

Author Winner

• The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers

Author Honor

• Movin' Up by Berry Gordy
• Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
• Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission by James Haskins
• James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins
• Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland

Illustrator Winner

• Cornrows by Carole Byard

Author Winner

• Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis

Author Honor

• Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson
• I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson
• Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
• Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner

Illustrator Winner

• Something on My Mind by Tom Feelings

Author Winner

• Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield

Author Honor

• The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner
• Marvin and Tige by Francina Glass
• Mary McCleod 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 Ann Stewart

Illustrator Winner

• Africa Dream by Carole Bayard

Author Winner

• The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins

Author Honor

• Everett Anderson's Friend by Lucille Clifton
• Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• Quick Book on Black America by Clarence N. Blake and Donald F. Martin

Author Winner

• Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey

Author Honor

• Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa by Shirley Graham
• Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield
• Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
• Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor

Author Winner

• The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson
  
  
  
  

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• Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis

Author Honor

• A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
• Do You Remember? by Lucile Clifton
• Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women by Louise Crane
• Guest in the Promise Land by Kristin Hunter
• Mukasa by John Nagenda

Illustrator Winner

• Ray Charles by George Ford

Author Winner

• I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett by Alfred Duckett
  
  
  
  

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• 17 Black Artists by Eton C. Fax
  
  
  
  

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• Black troubadour: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins

Author Honor

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
• I Am a Black Woman by Mari Evans
• Every Man Heart Lay Down by Lorenz Graham
• The Voice of the Children by June Jordan and Terri Bush
• Black Means by Gladys Groom and Barney Grossman
• Ebony Book of Black Achievement by Margaret W. Peters
• Mary Jo's Grandmother by Janice May Udry

Author Winner

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