Coretta Scott King Award Winners 1970-1995
If the Jones Library and/or the Branches own a copy of the book, there will be a link to the catalog, where you can check the status of the book. Otherwise, the title of the book will be in italics.
1995
Winner:
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack
Honor Books:
The Captive by Joyce Hansen
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
Illustrator Winner:
The Creation illustrated by James Ransome
Honor Books:
The Singing Man illustrated by Terea Shaffer
Meet Danitra Brown illustrated by Floyd Cooper
1994
Winner:
Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Honor Books:
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator Winner:
Soul Looks Back in Wonder illustrated by Tom Feelings
Honor Books:
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Uncle Jed's Barbershop illustrated by James Ransome
1993
Winner:
The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack
Honor Books:
Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman by Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator Winner:
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson
Honor Books:
Little Eight John illustrated by Wil Clay
Sukey and the Mermaid illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Working Cotton illustrated by Carole Byard
1992
Winner:
Now is Your Time!: The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:
Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield
Illustrator Winner:
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Honor Books:
All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals -llustrated and selected by Ashley Bryan
Night on Neighborhood Street illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
1991
Winner:
The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Books:
Black Dance in America by James Haskins
When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson
Illustrator Winner:
Aida illustrated by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon
1990
Winner:
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack
Honor Books:
Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson
Illustrator Winner:
Nathaniel Talking illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Honor Books:
The Talking Eggs illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
1989
Winner:
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:
A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton
Illustrator Winner:
Mirandy and Brother Wind illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Honor Books:
Under the Sunday Tree illustrated by Amos Ferguson
Storm in the Night illustrated by Pat Cummings
1988
Winner:
The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Books:
An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester
Illustrator Winner:
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe
Honor Books:
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals illustrated by Ashley Bryan
The invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua illustrated by Joe Sam
1987
Winner:
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
Honor Books:
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
Which Way Freedom? by Joyce Hansen
Illustrator Winner:
Half a Moon and One Whole Star illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Honor Books:
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings
1986
Winner:
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books:
Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter
Illustrator Winner:
The Patchwork Quilt illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Honor Books:
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales illustrated by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon
1985
Winner:
Motown and Didi: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:
Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton
1984
Winner:
Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton
Honor Books:
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
Lena Home by James Haskins
Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas
Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter
Illustrator Winner:
My Mama Needs Me illustrated by Pat Cummings
1983
Winner:
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books:
This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
Illustrator Winner:
Black Child by Peter Magubane
Honor Books:
All the Colors of the Race illustrated by John Steptoe
I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals illustrated by Ashley Bryan
Just Us Women illustrated by Pat Cummings
1982
Winner:
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Books:
Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane
Illustrator Winner:
Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal illustrated by John Steptoe
Honor Books:
Daydreamers illustrated by Tom Feelings
1981
Winner:
This Life by Sidney Poitier
Honor Books:
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux
Illustrator Winner:
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum illustrated by Ashley Bryan
Honor Books:
Grandma's Joy illustrated by Carole Byard
Count on Your Fingers African Style illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
1980
Winner:
The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:
Movin' Up: Pop Gordy Tells His Story by Berry Gordy
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield & Lessie Jones Little
Andrew Young, Man With a Mission by James Haskins
James Van DerZee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
Illustrator Winner:
Cornrows illustrated by Carole Byard
1979
Winner:
Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
Honor Books:
Benjamin Banneker Genius of Early America by Lillie Patterson
I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson
Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner
Illustrator Winner:
Something on My Mind illustrated by Tom Feelings
1978
Winner:
Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield
Honor Books:
The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner
Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass
Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
Barbara Jordan by James Haskins
Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart
1977
Winner:
The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
Honor Books:
Quiz Book on Black America by Clarence N. Blake & Donald F. Martin
Everett Anderson's Friend by Lucille Clifton
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1976
Winner:
Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey
Honor Books:
Julius K Nyerere: Teacher of Africa by Shirley Graham
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor
1975
Winner:
The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson
1974
Winner:
Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis
Honor Books:
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich by Alice Childress
Don't You Remember? by Lucille Clifton
Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women by Louise Crane
Guests in the Promised Land by Kristin Hunter Lattany
Mukasa by John Nagenda
Illustrator Winner:
Ray Charles illustrated by George Ford
1973
Winner:
I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Alfred Duckett
1972
Winner:
17 Black Artists by Elton Fax
1971
Winner:
Black Troubadour: Lanston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
Honor Books:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
I Am a Black Woman by Mari Evans
Every Man Heart Lay Down by Lorenz Graham
Black Means... by Barney Grossman with Gladys Groom and pupils of P.S. 150
The Voice of the Children by June Jordan & Terri Bush
The Ebony Book of Black Achievement by Margaret Peters
Mary Jo's Grandmother by Janice May Udry
1970
Winner:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
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