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The Coretta Scott King Award is awarded annually to authors of African descent whose distinguished books promote understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream." This award commemorates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his widow, Coretta Scott King, for her courage in continuing his work for peace and brotherhood.
 * Coretta Scott King Award** for Authors

The Coretta Scott King Award is awarded annually to illustrators of African descent whose work heightens and extends the reader’s awareness of the best and worst around them. The style and content enlarges upon the story elements, awakening and strengthening the imagination of the reader while leading to an appreciation of beauty.
 * Coretta Scott King Award** for Illustrators

2008 Author Award Winner: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Honors: November Blues by Sharon M. Draper Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr.

2008 Illustrator Award Winner: Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals by Ashley Bryan Honors: Jazz on a Saturday Night illustrated by Diane Dillon, written by Leo Dillon The Secret Olivia Told Me illustrated by Nancy Devard, written by N. Joy

2007 Author Award Winner Copper Sun by Sharon Draper Honor Book The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes

Illustrator Award Winner Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Kadir Nelson (text by Carole Boston Weatherford)

Honor Books Jazz by Christopher Myers (text by Walter Dean Myers) Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes by Benny Andrews (edited by David Roessel & Arnolld Rampersad)

2006 Author Award Winner Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester Honor Books Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (illustrated by Philippe Lardy)

Illustrator Award Winner Rosa by Bryan Collier (text by Nikki Giovanni) Honor Book Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by R. Gregory Christie

2005 Author Award Winner Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison Honor Books Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake Legend of Buddy Brush, The by Sheila P. Moses Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson

Illustrator Award Winner Ellington Was Not a Street by Kadir Nelson Honor Books God Bless the Child by Jerry Pinkney (text by BIllie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.) The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Leo and Diane Dillon (text by Virginia Hamilton)

2004 Author Award Winners Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack First Part Last, The by Angela Johnson Honor Books Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson Battle of Jericho, The by Sharon M. Draper

Illustrator Award Winner Beautiful Blackbird illustrated by Ashley Bryan Honor Books Thunder Rose illustrated by Kadir Nelson Almost to Freedom by Colin Bootman

2003 Author Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes Honor Books The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes (illustrated by E.B. Lewis)

Illustrator Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by E.B. Lewis (text by Nikkie Grimes) Honor Books Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That by Leo and Diane Dillion Visiting Langston by Bryan Collier

2002 Author The Land by Mildred D. Taylor Honor Books Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Illustrator Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney Honor Book Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bryan Collier (text by Doreen Rappaport)

2001 Author Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson Honor Book Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (illustrated by Stephen Alcorn)

Illustrator Uptown by Bryan Collier Honor Books Freedom River by Bryan Collier Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by R. Gregory Christie (text by Anne Rockwell) Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys by E.B. Lewis (text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard)

2000 Author Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Illustrator In the Time of the Drums by Brian Pickney

1999 Author Heaven by Angela Johnson

Illustrator I see the rhythm by Michele Wood

1998

Author Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper

Illustrator In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka Steptoe

1997 Author Slam! by Walter Dean Myers

Illustrator Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Jerry Pinkney (text by Alan Schroeder)

1996 Author Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton (illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon)

Illustrator The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (introduction by John Henrik Clarke)

1995 Author Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia and Frederick McKissack

Illustrator The Creation by James Ransome (text by James Weldon Johnson)

1994 Author Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson

Illustrator Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Tom Feelings

1993 Author The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patrica McKissack

Illustrator The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by Kathleen Atkins Wilson (text by David A. Anderson)

1992 Author Now Is Your Time! The African-Americian Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers

Illustrator Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

1991 Author The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor

Illustrator Aida by Leo and Diane Dillon (text by Leontyne Price)

1990 Author A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia and Frederick McKissack

Illustrator Nathaniel Talking by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (text by Eloise Greenfield)

1989 Author Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Illustrator Mirandy and Brother Wind by Jerry Pinkney (text by Patricia McKissack)

1988 Author The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor

Illustrator Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe

1987 Author Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter

Illustrator Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Jerry Pinkney (text by Crecent Dragonwagon)

1986 Author The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton

Illustrator The Patchwork Quilt by Jerry Pinkney (text by Valerie Flournoy)

1985 Author Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers

1984 Author Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton

Illustrator My Mama Needs Me by Pat Cummings (text by Mildred Pitts Walter)

1983 Author Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virgina Hamilton

Illustrator Black Child illustrated by Peter Magubane

1982 Author Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor

Illustrator Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale From Senegal by John Steptoe (text adapted by Rosa Guy)

1981 Author This Life by Sidney Poitier

Illustrator Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan

1980 Author The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers

Illustrator Cornrows by Carole Byard (text by Camille Yarbrough)

1979 Author Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis

Illustrator Something on My Mind by Tom Feelings (text by Nikki Grimes)

1978 Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield (illustrated by Carole Byard)

1977 The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins

1976 Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey

1975 The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson (illustrated by Herbert Temple)

1974 Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis (illustrated by George Ford)

1973 I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett

1972 Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax

1971 Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae H. Rollins

1970 Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson Posted by WMSLibrary at [|9:39 AM]