Coretta Scott King Award
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The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the American Library Association. Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., this award recognizes outstanding African American authors and illustrators. The book must be about the African American experience, and be written for a youth audience (high school or below).
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[edit] History
Lillie Patterson won the first award in 1970 for Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace. Since 1974, both author and illustrator awards are granted. Starting in 1978 Honor Books have been recognized. Illustrator Honor Books recognitions began in 1981. The main award is more prestigious than the Honor Award.
[edit] Author Awards
[edit] 2000s
- 2008: Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton, ISBN 0439023440
- 2007: Sharon Draper, Copper Sun, ISBN 0689821816
- 2006: Julius Lester, Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, ISBN 0786804904
- 2005: Toni Morrison, Remember: The Journey to School Integration, ISBN 0618459677
- 2004: Angela Johnson, The First Part Last, ISBN 0689849222
- 2003: Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade, ISBN 0803725698
- 2002: Mildred Taylor, The Land, ISBN 0803719507
- 2001: Jacqueline Woodson, Miracle's Boys, ISBN 0399231137
- 2000: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy, ISBN 003065484X
[edit] 1990s
- 1999: Angela Johnson, Heaven, ISBN 0689822901
- 1998: Sharon Draper, Forged By Fire, ISBN 0689818513
- 1997: Walter Dean Myers, Slam, ISBN 0590486675
- 1996: Virginia Hamilton, Her Stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales, ISBN 0590566032
- 1995: Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, ISBN 0590430270
- 1994: Angela Johnson Toning the Sweep, ISBN 1860391001,
- 1993: Patricia C. McKissack, Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, ISBN 0679883355
- 1992: Walter Dean Myers, Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom, ISBN 0060243716
- 1991: Mildred Taylor, The Road to Memphis, ISBN 0803703406
- 1990: Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter, ISBN 0802768857
[edit] 1980s
- 1989: Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels, ISBN 0590409433
- 1988: Mildred Taylor, The Friendship, ISBN 0803704178
- 1987: Mildred Pitts Walter, Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, ISBN 0688066453
- 1986: Virginia Hamilton, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, ISBN 0375804714
- 1985: Walter Dean Myers, Motown and Didi: a love story, ISBN 0670490628
- 1984: Lucille Clifton, Everett Anderson’s Good-bye, ISBN 0030635187
- 1983: Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, ISBN 0399208941
- 1982: Mildred Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, ISBN 0803747489
- 1981: Sidney Poitier, This Life, ISBN 0394505492
- 1980: Walter Dean Myers, The Young Landlords, ISBN 0670794546
[edit] 1970s
- 1979: Ossie Davis, Escape to Freedom, ISBN 0670297755
- 1978: Eloise Greenfield, Africa Dream, ISBN 0690047762
- 1977: James Haskins, The Story of Stevie Wonder, ISBN 0688517404
- 1976: Pearl Bailey, Duey's Tale, ISBN 0151265763
- 1975: Dorothy Robinson, The Legend of Africania, ISBN 0874850371
- 1974: Sharon Bell Mathis, Ray Charles, ISBN 0690670664
- 1973: Alfred Duckett, I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett, ISBN 0399110100
- 1972: Eton C. Fax, 17 Black Artists, ISBN 0396063918
- 1971: Charlemae Rollins, Black Troubador: Langston Hughes, ISBN 9997507533
- 1970: Lillie Patterson, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace, ISBN 081164555X
[edit] Author Honor Books
More than one book may be honored in any given year.
[edit] 2000s
- 2008: Sharon M. Draper, November Blues, ISBN 1416906983
- 2008: Charles R. Smith Jr., Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, ISBN 0763616923
- 2007: Nikki Grimes, The Road to Paris, ISBN 0142410829
- 2006: Tonya Bolden, Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, ISBN 0810950456
- 2006: Nikki Grimes, Dark Sons, ISBN 1423102517
- 2006: Marilyn Nelson, A Wreath for Emmett Till, ISBN 0618397523
- 2005: Shelia P. Moses, The Legend of Buddy Bush, ISBN 1416907165
- 2005: Sharon G. Flake, Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives, ISBN 0786815043
- 2005: Marilyn Nelson, Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem, ISBN 1932425128
- 2004: Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States, ISBN 0439635136
- 2004: Jacqueline Woodson, Locomotion, ISBN 0399231153
- 2004: Sharon Draper, The Battle of Jericho, ISBN 0689842333
- 2003: Brenda Woods, The Red Rose Box, ISBN 039923702X
- 2003: Nikki Grimes, Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, ISBN 0439573424
- 2002: Sharon G. Flake, Money-Hungry, ISBN 1423103866
- 2002: Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems, ISBN 1886910537
- 2001: Andrea Davis Pinkney, Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, ISBN 0439332206
- 2000: Karen English, Francie, ISBN 031237383X
- 2000: Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers, ISBN 0439168457
- 2000: Walter Dean Myers, Monster, ISBN 0439202183
[edit] 1990s
- 1999: Nikki Grimes, Jazmin’s Notebook, ISBN 0141307021
- 1999: Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan, Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground, ISBN 0805050124
- 1999: Angela Johnson, The Other Side: Shorter Poems, ISBN 0531071677
- 1998: James Haskins, Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement, ISBN 0786801689
- 1998: Joyce Hansen, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, ISBN 0590849131
- 1997: Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts, ISBN 0590662597
- 1996: Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, ISBN 044022800X
- 1996: Rita Williams-Garcia, Like Sisters on the Homefront, ISBN 0140385614
- 1996: Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, ISBN 0590458817
- 1995: Joyce Hansen, The Captive, ISBN 0590416243
- 1995: Jacqueline Woodson, I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, ISBN 0440219604
- 1995: Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League, ISBN 059068213X
- 1994: Joyce Carol Thomas, Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, ISBN 0064434397
- 1994: Walter Dean Myers, Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, ISBN 059066221X
- 1993: Mildred Pitts Walter, Mississippi Challenge, ISBN 0027923010
- 1993: Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?, ISBN 0590446916
- 1993: Walter Dean Myers, Somewhere in the Darkness, ISBN 0545055776
- 1992: Eloise Greenfield, Night on Neighborhood Street, ISBN 0140556834
- 1991: James Haskins, Black Dance in America, ISBN 0064461211
- 1991: Angela Johnson, When I Am Old with You, ISBN 0531070352
- 1990: Eloise Greenfield, Nathaniel Talking, ISBN 0863162010
- 1990: Virginia Hamilton, The Bells of Christmas, ISBN 0152015507
- 1990: Lillie Patterson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement, ISBN 0816029970
[edit] 1980s
- 1989: James Berry, A Thief in the Village and Other Stories, ISBN 0140343571
- 1989: Virginia Hamilton, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, ISBN 0679839976
- 1988: Alexis De Veaux, An Enchanted Hair Tale, ISBN 0064432718
- 1988: Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, ISBN 0142407208
- 1987: Ashley Bryan, Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales, ISBN 0153022299
- 1987: Joyce Hansen, Which Way Freedom, ISBN 0380714086
- 1986: Virginia Hamilton, Junius Over Far, ISBN 0060221941
- 1986: Mildred Pitts Walter, Trouble’s Child, ISBN 0688042147
- 1985: Candy Dawson Boyd, Circle of Gold, ISBN 0590432664
- 1985: Virginia Hamilton, A Little Love, ISBN 0330296841
- 1984: Virginia Hamilton, The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl, ISBN 0064401782
- 1984: James Haskins, Lena Horne, ISBN 0698205863
- 1984: Joyce Carol Thomas, Bright Shadow, ISBN 0380845091
- 1984: Mildred Pitts Walter, Because We Are, ISBN 0688022871
- 1983: Julius Lester, This Strange New Feeling, ISBN 0590440470
- 1982: Alice Childress, Rainbow Jordan, ISBN 0380589745
- 1982: Kristin Hunter, Lou In the Limelight, ISBN 0684168804
- 1982: Mary E. Mebane, Mary: An Autobiography, ISBN 0449700259
- 1981: Alexis De Veaux, Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday, ISBN 0060216301
- 1980: Berry Gordy, Movin’ Up, ISBN 0060220538
- 1980: Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little, Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memior, ISBN 0690038755
- 1980: James Haskins, Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission, ISBN 0688418961
- 1980: James Haskins, James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man, ISBN 0396076785
- 1980: Ellease Southerland, Let the Lion Eat Straw, ISBN 0684160706
[edit] 1970s
- 1979: Lillie Patterson, Benjamin Banneker, ISBN 0687029007
- 1979: Jeanne W. Peterson, I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf, ISBN 0060247010
- 1979: Virginia Hamilton, Justice and Her Brothers, ISBN 0688841821
- 1979: Carol Fenner, Skates of Uncle Richard, ISBN 0394835530
- 1978: William J. Faulkner, The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be, ISBN 0695407554
- 1978: Francina Glass, Marvin and Tige, ISBN 0312517831
- 1978: Eloise Greenfield, Mary McCleod Bethune, ISBN 0064461688
- 1978: James Haskins, Barbara Jordan, ISBN 0803704526
- 1978: Lillie Patterson, Coretta Scott King, ISBN 0811645851
- 1978: Ruth Ann Stewart, Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington, ISBN 0385053290
[edit] Author Special Citation
- 1984: Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled by Coretta Scott King, The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., ISBN 1557041512
[edit] Illustrator Awards
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This section is incomplete, it is missing award-winners prior to 2008.
[edit] 2000s
- 2008: Ashley Bryan, Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals, ISBN 0689847327
[edit] Illustrator Honor Awards
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Please help improve this section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. |
This section is incomplete, it is missing award-winners prior to 2008.
[edit] 2000s
- 2008: Nancy Devard, ill., The Secret Olivia Told Me, written by N. Joy, ISBN 1933491086
- 2008: Leo and Diane Dillon, Jazz On A Saturday Night, ISBN 0590478931
[edit] References
- The Coretta Scott King Award, American Library Association, retrieved 2008-03-20.
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Complete List of Recipients—by Year, American Library Association, retrieved 2008-03-20.
- Amazon.com, one of many sources for ISBN numbers.
- BookFinder4U, one of many sources for ISBN numbers.
