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 |