Coretta Scott King Award Winners
1970-2021


2021: Before the ever after
by Jacqueline Woodson

The son of an idolized pro-football star begins noticing the contrast between his father’s angry, forgetful behavior and his superhero reputation before adjusting to a new reality involving difficult symptoms stemming from his father’s numerous head injuries. By the National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming.
2021: R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul
by Carole Boston Weatherford

A vibrant portrait of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame music artist includes coverage of Franklin's Grammy-winning achievements and unfailing dedication to civil rights.
In this Issue
2011-2020 Award Winners
2001-2010 Award Winners
1991-2000 Award Winners
1981-1990 Award Winners
1970-1980 Award Winners
2011-2020 Award Winners
2020: The undefeated by Kwame Alexander
2020: New kid by Jerry Craft
2019: The stuff of stars by Marion Dane Bauer
2019: A Few Red Drops : The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
2018: Piecing me together by Renée Watson
2018: Out of Wonder : Celebrating Poets and Poetry by Kwame Alexander
2017: March. Book three by John Lewis
2017: Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
2016: Gone crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
2016: Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
2015: Brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2015: Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird by Misty Copeland
2014: P.S. Be eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
2014: Knock knock : my dad's dream for me by Daniel Beaty
2013: Hand in Hand : Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney
2013: I, too, am America by Langston Hughes
2012: Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
2012: Underground by Shane Evans
2011: One crazy summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
2011: Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave by Laban Carrick Hill
 
2001-2010 Award Winners
2010: Bad News for Outlaws : The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.s. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
2010: My people by Langston Hughes
2009: We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball by Kadir Nelson
2009: The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas
2008: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
2008: Let it shine : three favorite spirituals by Ashley Bryan
2007: Copper sun by Sharon M. Draper
2007: Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
2006: Day of tears : a novel in dialogue by Julius Lester
2006: Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
2005: Remember : the journey to school integration by Toni Morrison
2005: Ellington was not a street by Ntozake Shange
2004: The first part last by Angela Johnson
2004: Beautiful blackbird by Ashley Bryan
2003: Bronx masquerade by Nikki Grimes
2003: Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
2002: The land by Mildred D. Taylor
2002: Goin' someplace special by Pat McKissack
2001: Miracle's boys by Jacqueline Woodson
2001: Uptown by Bryan Collier
 
1991-2000 Award Winners
2000: Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
2000: In the time of the drums by Kim L Siegelson
1999: Heaven by Angela Johnson
1999: I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus
1998: Forged by fire by Sharon M. Draper
1998: In daddy's arms I am tall : African Americans celebrating fathers by Javaka Steptoe
1997: Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
1997: Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder
1996: Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales by Virginia Hamilton
1996: The middle passage : white ships/black cargo by Tom Feelings
1995: Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters : Christmas in the Quarters by Pat McKissack
1995: The Creation by James Weldon Johnson
1994: Toning the sweep by Angela Johnson
1994: Soul looks back in wonder by Tom Feelings
1993: The Dark-thirty : Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Pat McKissack
1993: The origin of life on earth : an African creation myth by David A. Anderson
1992: Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom by Walter Dean Myers
1992: Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
1991: The road to Memphis by Mildred D Taylor
1991: Aïda by Leontyne Price
 
1981-1990 Award Winners 
1990: A long hard journey : the story of the Pullman porter by Pat McKissack
1990: Nathaniel talking by Eloise Greenfield
1989: Fallen angels by Walter Dean Myers
1989: Mirandy and Brother Wind by Pat McKissack
1988: The friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
1988: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
1987: Justin and the best biscuits in the world by Mildred Pitts Walter
1987: Half a moon and one whole star by Crescent Dragonwagon
1986: The people could fly by Virginia Hamilton
1986: The patchwork quilt by Valerie Flournoy
1985: Motown and Didi : a love story by Walter Dean Myers
1984: Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
1984: My mama needs me by Mildred Pitts Walter
1983: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1983: Black child by Peter Magubane
1982: Let the circle be unbroken by Mildred D Taylor
1982: Mother Crocodile by Birago Diop
1981: This life by Sidney Poitier
1981: Beat the story-drum, pum-pum by Ashley Bryan
 
1970-1980 Award Winners 
1980: The young landlords by Walter Dean Myers
1980: Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
1979: Escape to freedom : a play about young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
1979: Something on my mind by Tom Feelings
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 W. Robinson
1974: Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis
1973: I never had it made : an autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson
1972: Seventeen black artists by Elton C. Fax
1971: Black troubadour: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Hill Rollins
1970: Martin Luther King, Jr.: man of peace by Lillie Patterson
 

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