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  Books & Reading  |  Award Books  |  Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Books and Reading

Award Books
Randolph Caldecott Medal
Coretta Scott King Book Award
John Newbery Medal
Pura Belpré Medal
Robert F. Sibert Medal
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Texas Bluebonnet Award
 
The Coretta Scott King Book Award

Awarded annually to authors and illustrators of African descent for their distinguished  books for children.

For more information on the Coretta Scott King Book Award, visit the Social Responsibilities Round Table site. 
2023 Author Award Winner

Freewater

written by written by Amina Luqman-Dawson
2023 Author Honor Books

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia
Estelle Butler


written by Ibi Zoboi
 
The Talk

written by Alicia D. Williams
illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu
 
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

written by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes
illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
 
2023 Illustrator Award Winner

Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

illustrated by Frank Morrison
written by Carole Boston Weatherford
2023 Illustrator Honor Awards

Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love

illustrated by April Harrison
written by Michelle Edwards
 
Swim Team

illustrated and written by Johnnie Christmas
 
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
written by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes
 

   

P AS T    W I N N E R S

Year Titles Author / Illustrator
2023 - Freewater

- Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
Amina Luqman-Dawson


Frank Morrison
2022 - Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
won both author and illus
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carol Boston Weatherford


Floyd Cooper
2021 - Before the Ever After

- R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
Jacqueline Woodson


Frank Morrison
2020 - New Kid

- The Undefeated
Jerry Craft

Kadir Nelson
2019 - A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

- The Stuff of Stars
Claire Hartfield


Ekua Holmes
2018 - Piecing Me Together

- Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Renée Watson

Kwame Alexander
2017 - March Book: Three

- Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

Javaka Steptoe
2016 - Gone Crazy in Alabama

- Trombone Shorty
Rita William-Garcia

Bryan Collier
2015 - brown girl dreaming

- Firebird
Jacqueline Woodson

Christopher Myers
2014 - P.S. Be Eleven

- Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me
Rita Williams-Garcia


Bryan Collier
2013 - Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

- I, Too, Am America
Andrea Davis Pinkney


Bryan Collier
2012 - Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

- Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Kadir Nelson

Shane W Evans
2011 - One Crazy Summer

- Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Rita Williams-Garcia


Bryan Collier
2010 - Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal

- My People
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson


Charles R. Smith Jr.
2009 - We Are the Ship

- The Blacker the Berry
Kadir Nelson

Floyd Cooper
2008 - Elijah of Buxton

- Let it Shine
Christopher Paul Curtis

Ashley Bryan
2007 - Copper Sun

- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Sharon M. Draper

Kadir Nelson
2006 - Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

- Rosa
Julius Lester
Bryan Collier

2005
 
- Remember: The Journey to School Integration

- Ellington Was Not a Street
Toni Morrison
Kadir A. Nelson

2004
- First Part Last
- Beautiful Blackbird
Angela Johnson
Ashley Bryan

2003
- Bronx Masquerade
- Talking About Bessie:  The Story of Aviator
     Elizabeth Coleman
Nikki Grimes

E.B. Lewis

2002
- The Land
- Goin' Someplace Special
Mildred D. Taylor
Jerry Pinkney

2001
- Miracle's Boys
- Uptown
Jacqueline Woodson
Bryan Collier

2000
- Bud, Not Buddy
- In the Time of the Drums
Christopher Paul Curtis
Brian Pinkney

1999
- Heaven
- I see the rhythm
Angela Johnson
Michele Wood

1998
- Forged by Fire
- In Daddy's Arms I am Tall:
       African Americans Celebrating Fathers
Sharon M. Draper

Javaka Steptoe

1997
- Slam
- Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
Walter Dean Myers
Jerry Pinkney

1996
- Her Stories
- The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo
Virginia Hamilton
Tom Feelings

1995
- Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
- The Creation 
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
James Ransome

1994
- Toning the Sweep
- Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Angela Johnson
Tom Feelings

1993
- Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
- The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth
Patricia A. McKissack
Kathleen Atkins

1992
- Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom
- Tar Beach
 Walter Dean Myers

Faith Ringgold

1991
- The Road to Memphis
- Aida
Mildred D. Taylor
Leo and Diane Dillon

1990
- A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter
- Nathaniel Talking
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Earlier Winners