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CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR AWARDS AUTHOR AWARDS Year Author/Illustrator 2011
2010 2009
2008 2007 2006
2005
2004
2003 2002 2001 2000
1999
1998
Walter Dean Myers Jewell Parker Rhodes G. Neri Tanita S. Davis Hope Anita Smith Joyce Carol Thomas Carole Boston Weatherford Sharon M. Draper Charles R. Smith, Jr./Bryan Collier Nikki Grimes Tonya Bolden Nikki Grimes Marilyn Nelson/Philippe Lardy Shelia P. Moses Sharon G. Flake Marilyn Nelson Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Jacqueline Woodson Sharon M. Draper Brenda Woods Nikki Grimes/ E.B. Lewis Sharon G. Flake Marilyn Nelson Andrea Davis Pinkney/Stephen Alcorn Karen English Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Walter Dean Myers Nikki Grimes Joyce Hansen & Gary McGowan Angela Johnson James Haskins Joyce Hansen
1997 1996
1995
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Christopher Paul Curtis Rita Williams-Garcia Jacqueline Woodson Joyce Hansen Jacqueline Woodson Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
Title
Call Number
Lockdown Ninth Ward Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty Mare’s War Keeping the Night Watch The Blacker the Berry Becoming Billie Holiday November Blues Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali The Road to Paris Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl Dark Sons A Wreath for Emmett Till The Legend of Buddy Bush Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and Boys in Their Lives Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
813 M996lo Juv 813 R476n Juv 305.896 N445y Juv 813 D264m Juv 813 S649k Juv 811 T458bl Juv
Locomotion The Battle of Jericho The Red Rose Box Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman Money-Hungry Carver: A Life in Poems Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
811 W898l Juv 813 D766b Juv 813 W894r Juv 629.13 C692g Juv
Francie Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers Monster Jazmin’s Notebook Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground The Other Side: Shorter Poems Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
813 E58f Juv 639.28 M158b Juv
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 Like Sisters on the Homefront From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun The Captive I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League
813 D766no Juv 796.83 A398zS Juv 813 G862ro Juv 974.71 L997zB Juv 813 G862d Juv 811 N428wr Juv 813 M9106le Juv 813 F576w Juv 811 N428fo Juv 973.7 M158d Juv
811 N248c Juv 323 P655l Juv
813 M996m Juv 813 G862j Juv 305.567 H249b Juv 811 J66o Juv 323 R971h Juv
970.00496 S381m Juv 813 C978w Juv 813 W898f Juv 813 H249c Juv
1994 1993
1992 1991 1990
1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984
1983 1982
1981 1980
1979
1978
Joyce Carol Thomas/Floyd Cooper Walter Dean Myers Mildred Pitts Walter
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary Mississippi Challenge
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Walter Dean Myers
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
Eloise Greenfield James Haskins Angela Johnson Eloise Greenfield/Jan Spivey Gilchrist Virginia Hamilton Lillie Patterson James Berry Virginia Hamilton Alexis De Veaux Julius Lester Ashley Bryan Joyce Hansen Virginia Hamilton Mildred Pitts Walter Candy Dawson Boyd Virginia Hamilton Virginia Hamilton James Haskins Joyce Carol Thomas Mildred Pitts Walter Julius Lester Alice Childress Kristin Hunter Mary E. Mebane Alexis De Veaux Berry Gordy Eloise Greenfield & Lessie Jones Little James Haskins James Haskins Ellease Southerland Lillie Patterson Jeanne W. Peterson Virginia Hamilton Carol Fenner William J. Faulkner
Night on Neighborhood Street Black Dance in America When I Am Old with You Nathaniel Talking
Frankcina Glass Eloise Greenfield James Haskins Lillie Patterson Ruth Ann Stewart 1977
1976
1975
Lucille Clifton Mildred D. Taylor Clarance N. Blake & Donald F. Martin Shirley Graham Eloise Greenfield Walter Dean Myers Mildred Taylor No Award
Somewhere in the Darkness
The Bells of Christmas Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement A Thief in the Village and Other Stories Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave An Enchanted Hair Tale The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales Which Way Freedom Junius Over Far Trouble’s Child Circle of Gold A Little Love The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl Lena Horne Bright Shadow Because We Are This Strange New Feeling Rainbow Jordan Lou in the Limelight Mary: An Autobiography Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday Movin’ Up Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man Let the Lion Eat Straw Benjamin Banneker I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf Justice and Her Brothers Skates of Uncle Richard The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be Marvin and Tige Mary McCleod Bethune Barbara Jordan Coretta Scott King Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington Everett Anderson’s Friends Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Quick Book on Black America Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa Paul Robeson Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff Song of the Trees No Award
811 T458b Juv 323.1196073 W233m Juv 305.567 M158s Juv 813 M996so 1992 Juv 811 G812n Juv 813 J66w Juv 813 G812n Juv 813 H221b Juv E185.97 .K P29 1989 973.66 H221a Juv 398.2 L642t Juv 398.2 B915l Juv
813 B789c Juv 813 H221m Juv 813 T458b Juv 813 L6425th Juv 813 C536r Juv 975.6 M485 Juv 782 H732d Juv 920 G812c Juv
305.9081 P485i Juv 813 H221ju Juv
371.1 B563g Juv 328.73 J82h Juv
1974
1973 1972 1971
1970
Alice Childress Lucille Clifton Louise Crane Kristin Hunter John Nagenda No Award No Award Maya Angelou Shirley Chisholm Mari Evans Lorenz Graham June Jordan & Terri Bush Gladys Groom & Bonnie Grossman Margaret W. Peters Janice May Udry No Award
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich Do You Remember? Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women Guest in the Promised Land Mukasa No Award No Award I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Unbought and Unbossed I Am a Black Woman Every Man Heart Lay Down The Voice of the Children Black Means Ebony Book of Black Achievement Mary Jo’s Grandmother No Award
ILLUSTRATOR AWARDS Year 2011 2010 2009
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
2000 1999
1998
1997
1996 1995 1994 1993
Illustrator Javaka Steptoe E.B. Lewis Kadir Nelson Jerry Pinkney Sean Qualls Nancy Devard Leo & Diane Dillon Christopher Myers Benny Andrews R. Gregory Christie Jerry Pinkney Leo & Diane Dillon Colin Bootman Kadir Nelson Leo & Diane Dillon Bryan Collier Bryan Collier Bryan Collier R. Gregory Christie E.B. Lewis E.B. Lewis Christopher Myers Floyd Cooper E.B. Lewis Brian Pinkney Ashley Bryan Christopher Myers Baba Wagué Diakité Gregorie Christie Reynold Ruffins Synthia Saint James Leo & Diane Dillon Brian Pinkney Terea Shaffer Floyd Cooper Floyd Cooper James Ransome Wil Clay Brian Pinkney Carole Byard
Title Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow The Negro Speaks of Rivers We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball The Moon Over Star Before John Was a Jazz Giant The Secret Olivia Told Me Jazz On A Saturday Night Jazz Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan God Bless the Child The People Could Fly: The Picture Book Almost to Freedom Thunder Rose Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That Visiting Langston Martin’s Big Words Freedom River Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys My Rows and Piles of Coins Black Cat I Have Heard of a Land The Bat Boy and His Violin Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry Harlem The Hunterman and the Crocodile The Palm of my Heart: Poetry by African American Children Running the Road to ABC Neeny Coming, Neeny Going Her Stories The Faithful Friend The Singing Man Meet Danitra Brown Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea Uncle Jed’s Barbershop Little Eight John Sukey and the Mermaid Working Cotton
Call Number 787.87 H498zG Juv 811 H893n Juv 796.357 N427w Juv 813 A856m Juv 788.7 C725zW Juv 781.65 D579j Juv 813 M996j Juv 811 H893l Juv 813 W725br Juv 782.42 H732g Juv 398.2 H221p Juv 813 N4316a Juv 813 N791t Juv 813 D579r Juv 811 P433v Juv 323.4 K53zRJuv 973.7115 R221f Juv 305.567 T874zR Juv 813 H848v Juv 813 M726m Juv 813 M9952b Juv 813 T458i Juv 813 C9788b Juv 781.65 E46p Juv 811 A826 Juv 811 M996h Juv 398.2 D536h Juv 811 P171 Juv 813 L389r Juv 813 E58n Juv 398.2 H221h Juv 398.2 S197f Juv 398.2 M488s Juv 811 G862m Juv 811 T458b Juv 813 M682u Juv 398.2 S197s Juv 331.544 W727w Juv
1992
Ashley Bryan
1991 1990 1989
Jan Spivey Gilchrist No Award Jerry Pinkney Amos Ferguson
1988
1987 1986 1985 1984 1983
1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970
Pat Cummings Ashley Bryan JoeSam Ashley Bryan Pat Cummings Leo & Diane Dillon No Award Pat Cummings John Steptoe Ashley Bryan Pat Cummings Tom Feelings Carole Byard Jerry Pinkney No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals Night on Neighborhood Street No Award The Talking Eggs Under the Sunday Tree Storm in the Night What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales C.L.O.U.D.S. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales No Award My Mama Needs Me All the Colors of the Race I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals Just Us Women Daydreamers Grandmama’s Joy Count on Your Fingers African Style No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award No Award
782.253 A416 Juv 811 G812n Juv 398.2 S197t Juv 759.97296 F352u 1988 Juv
398.2 B915l Juv 398.2 H221p Juv
813 C1359ju Juv 811 F295d Juv 813 G812g Juv 513.211 Z38c Juv
CORETTA SCOTT KING SPECIAL CITATION Year 1984
Author Coretta Scott King
Title The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number 323.4 K53w Juv MAS 12.15.2011
