Barrington Area Library
The Coretta Scott
King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force of
the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table.
Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose
distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the
"American Dream. " For more
information, visit the
Coretta Scott King
Award homepage.
2008
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Elijah of Buxton.
Honor Books:
Draper, Sharon M.
November Blues.
Smith, Charles R., Jr.
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali.
2007
Draper, Sharon.
Copper Sun.
Nelson, Kadir (Text: Carole Boston Weatherford).
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to
Freedom.
Honor Books:
Andrews, Benny. (Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel).
Langston Hughes.
Grimes, Nikki.
The Road to Paris.
Myers, Christopher (Text: Walter Dean Myers).
Jazz.
2006
Collier, Bryan (Text: Nikki Giovanni).
Rosa.
Lester, Julius.
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue.
Honor Books:
Bolden, Tonya.
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl.
Christie, R. Gregory.
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Grimes, Nikki.
Dark Sons.
Nelson, Marilyn.
A Wreath for Emmett Till.
2005
Morrison, Toni.
Remember: The Journey to School Integration.
Nelson, Kadir (Text: Ntozake Shange).
Ellington Was Not a Street.
Honor Books:
Dillon, Leo and Diane (Text: Virginia Hamilton).
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book.
Flake, Sharon.
Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their
Lives.
Moses, Sheila P.
The Legend of Buddy Bush.
Nelson, Marilyn.
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem.
Pinkney, Jerry (Text: Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.).
God Bless the Child.
2004
Bryan, Ashley.
Beautiful Blackbird.
Johnson, Angela.
The First Part Last.
Honor Books:
Draper, Sharon M.
The Battle of Jericho.
McKissack, Patrica C., and Fredrick McKissack.
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States.
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Locomotion.
2003
Grimes, Nikki.
Bronx Masquerade.
Lewis, E. B. (Text: Nikki Grimes)
Talkin' about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth
Coleman.
Honor Books:
Collier, Bryan. (Text: Willie Perdomo)
Visiting Langston.
Dillon, Leo.
Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles—Think of That.
Woods, Brenda.
Red Rose Box.
2002
Pinkney, Jerry. (Text: Pat McKissack)
Goin' Someplace Special.
Taylor, Mildred D.
The Land.
Honor Books:
Flake, Sharon G.
Money Hungry.
Nelson, Marilyn.
Carver: A Life in Poems.
2001
Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle's
Boys.
Honor Book:
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let
It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters.
2000
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud,
Not Buddy.
Honor Books:
English, Karen. Francie.
McKissack, Patricia C., and Frederick L. McKissack. Black
Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American. Whalers.
Myers, Christopher. Black
Cat.
Myers, Walter Dean. Monster.
1999
Johnson, Angela. Heaven.
Honor Books:
Grimes, Nikki. Jazmin's
Notebook.
Hansen, Joyce, and Gary McGowan. Breaking
Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground.
Johnson, Angela. The Other Side: Shorter Poems.
1998
Draper, Sharon M. Forged
by Fire.
Honor Books:
Hansen, Joyce.
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl.
Haskins, James.
Bayard
Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement.
1997
Myers, Walter Dean. Slam!
Honor Book:
McKissack, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack.
Rebels
Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts.
1996
Hamilton, Virginia.
Her
Stories.
Honor Books:
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
The
Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.
Williams-Garcia, Rita. Like
Sisters on the Homefront.
Woodson, Jacqueline. From
the Notebooks of Melanin Sun.
1995
McKissack, Patricia C., and Frederick L. McKissack.
Christmas
in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters.
Honor Books:
Hansen, Joyce.
The
Captive.
McKissack, Patricia C., and Frederick L. McKissack.
Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League.
Woodson, Jacqueline.
I
Hadn't Meant to Tell You This.
1994
Johnson, Angela.
Toning
the Sweep.
Honor Books:
Myers, Walter Dean.
Malcolm
X: By Any Means Necessary.
Thomas, Joyce Carol.
Brown
Honey in Broomwheat Tea.
1993
McKissack, Patricia C.
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural.
Honor Books:
McKissack, Patricia C., and Frederick L. McKissack.
Sojourner
Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
Myers, Walter Dean.
Somewhere in the Darkness.
Walter, Mildred Pitts.
Mississippi
Challenge.
1992
Myers, Walter Dean.
Now
is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom.
Honor Book:
Greenfield, Eloise.
Night
on Neighborhood Street.
1991
Taylor, Mildred D.
The
Road to Memphis.
Honor Books:
Haskins, James.
Black
Dance in America: A History through Its People.
Johnson, Angela.
When
I Am Old With You.
1990
McKissack, Patricia C., and Frederick L. McKissack.
A
Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter.
Honor Books:
Greenfield, Eloise.
Nathaniel
Talking.
Hamilton, Virginia.
The
Bells of Christmas.
Patterson, Lillie. Martin
Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement.
1989
Myers, Walter Dean.
Fallen
Angels.
Honor Books:
Berry, James.
A
Thief in the Village, and Other Stories.
Hamilton, Virginia.
Anthony
Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave.
1988
Taylor, Mildred D.
The
Friendship.
Honor Books:
De Veaux, Alexis.
An
Enchanted Hair Tale.
Lester, Julius.
The
Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit.
1987
Walter, Mildred Pitts.
Justin
and the Best Biscuits in the World.
Honor Books:
Bryan, Ashley.
Lion
and the Ostrich Chicks, and Other African Folk Tales.
Hansen, Joyce.
Which
Way Freedom?
1986
Hamilton, Virginia.
The
People Could Fly: American Black Folktales.
Honor Books:
Hamilton, Virginia.
Junius
Over Far.
Walter, Mildred Pitts. Trouble's Child .
1985
Myers, Walter Dean.
Motown
and Didi: A Love Story.
Honor Books:
Boyd, Candy Dawson. Circle of Gold.
Hamilton, Virginia. A
Little Love.
1984
Clifton, Lucille. Everett Anderson's Good-Bye.
Honor Books:
Hamilton, Virginia. The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl.
Haskins, James. Lena
Horne.
Thomas, Joyce Carol. Bright Shadow.
Walter, Mildred Pitts. Because We Are.
1983
Hamilton, Virginia.
Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush.
Honor Book:
Lester, Julius. This
Strange New Feeling.
1982
Taylor, Mildred D.
Let
the Circle Be Unbroken.
Honor Books:
Childress, Alice.
Rainbow
Jordan.
Hunter, Kristin. Lou in the Limelight.
Mebane, Mary E. Mary: An Autobiography.
1981
Poitier, Sidney.
This
Life.
Honor Book:
De Veaux, Alexis. Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday.
1980
Myers, Walter Dean.
The
Young Landlords.
Honor Books:
Gordy, Berry. Movin' Up.
Greenfield, Eloise and Lessie Jones Little.
Childtimes:
A Three-Generation Memoir.
Haskins, James.
Andrew
Young: Young Man With a Mission.
Haskins, James. James
van der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man.
Southerland, Ellease.
Let
the Lion Eat Straw.
1979
Davis, Ossie.
Escape
to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass.
Honor Books:
Fenner, Carol.
Skates
of Uncle Richard.
Hamilton, Virginia.
Justice
and Her Brothers.
Patterson, Lillie. Benjamin
Banneker, Genius of Early America.
Peterson, Jeanne W.
I
Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf.
1978
Greenfield, Eloise.
Africa
Dream.
Honor Books:
Faulkner, William J. The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales
and How They Came to Be.
Glass, Frankcina. Marvin and Tige.
Greenfield, Eloise. Mary
McCleod Bethune.
Haskins, James. Barbara
Jordan.
Patterson, Lillie. Coretta Scott King.
Stewart, Ruth Ann. Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the
Daughter of Booker T. Washington.
1977
Haskins, James.
The Story of Stevie Wonder.
1976
Bailey, Pearl. Duey's Tale.
1975
Robinson, Dorothy.
The Legend of Africana.
1974
Mathis, Sharon Bell.
Ray Charles.
1973
Duckett, Alfred.
I
Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson.
1972
Fax, Elton C. 17
Black Artists.
1971
Rollins, Charlemae.
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes.
1970
Patterson, Lillie.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace.
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