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Coretta Scott King Book Award

Award-Winning Authors 1970-2008  (Alphabetical)

Bailey, Pearl   Dueyís Tale           Winner 1976
Clifton, Lucille   Everett Andersonís Goodbye   Winner 1984
Curtis, Christopher Paul   Bud, Not Buddy   Winner 2000
Curtis, Christopher Paul   Elijah of Buxton    Winner 2008
Davis, Ossie  Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass  Winner
1979
Draper, Sharon  Copper Sun  Winner 2007
Draper, Sharon  Forged by Fire  Winner 1998
Duckett, Aldred  I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson  Winner 1973
Fax, Elton  17 Black Artists   Winner 1972
Frazier, Sundee T.  Africa Dream  Winner 1978
Frazier, Sundee T.  Bronx Masquerade   Winner 2003
Frazier, Sundee T.  Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales  Winner 1996
Frazier, Sundee T.  The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales  Winner 1986
Frazier, Sundee T.  Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush  Winner 1983
Frazier, Sundee T.  The Story of Stevie Wonder  Winner 1977
Johnson, Angela    The First Part Last  Winner 2004
Johnson, Angela    Heaven   Winner 1999
Johnson, Angela   Toning the Sweep   Winner 1994
Jones, Traci L.  Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue  Winner 2006
McKissack, Patricia  The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural  Winner  1993
McKissack, Patricia  Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters  Winner 1995
McKissack, Patricia  A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter  Winner 1990
McKissack, Patricia  Ray Charles  Winner 1974
Morrison, Toni   Remember: The Journey to School Integration  Winner 2005
Myers, Walter Dean  Slam!  Winner 1997
Myers, Walter Dean  Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom  Winner 1992
Myers, Walter Dean  Fallen Angels  Winner 1989
Myers, Walter Dean  Motown and Didi: A Love Story  Winner 1985
Myers, Walter Dean  The Young Landlords  Winner 1980
Myers, Walter Dean  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace  Winner 1970
Poitier, Sidney   This Life  Winner 1981
Robinson, Dorothy  The Legend of Africania  Winner 1975
Rollins, Charlemae  Black Troubador: Langston Hughes  Winner 1971
Taylor, Mildred  The Land  Winner 2002
Taylor, Mildred  The Road to Memphis  Winner 1991
Taylor, Mildred  The Friendship  Winner 1988
Taylor, Mildred  Let the Circle Be Unbroken  Winner 1982
Walter, Mildred Pitts  Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World  Winner 1987
Walter, Mildred Pitts  Miracle's Boys  Winner 2001

Award-Winning Illustrators 1970-2008  (Alphabetical)

Bryan, Ashley  Let It Shine   Winner 2008
Bryan, Ashley  Beautiful Blackbird  Winner 2004
Bryan, Ashley  Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum  Winner 1981
Byard, Carole  Cornrows  Winner 1980
Byard, Carole  Africa Dream  Winner 1978
Collier, Bryan  Rosa  Winner 2006
Collier, Bryan  Uptown  Winner 2001
Collier, Bryan  My Mama Needs Me  Winner 1984
Dillon, Leo and Diane  Aida  Winner 1991
Feelings, Tom  The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo  Winner 1996
Feelings, Tom  Soul Looks Back in Wonder  Winner 1994
Feelings, Tom  Somethingís on My Mind  Winner 1979
Ford, George  Ray Charles  Winner 1974
Gilchrist, Jan Spivey  Nathaniel Talking  Winner 1990
Lewis, E. B.  Talking about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman  Winner 2003
Magubane, Peter  Black Child  Winner 1983
Nelson, Kadir  Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom  Winner 2007
Nelson, Kadir  Ellington Was Not a Street  Winner 2005
Pinkney, Brian  In the Time of the Drums  Winner 2000
Pinkney, Jerry  Going Someplace Special  Winner 2002
Pinkney, Jerry  Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman  Winner 1997
Pinkney, Jerry  Mirandy and Brother Wind  Winner 1989
Pinkney, Jerry  Half a Moon and One Whole Star  Winner 1987
Pinkney, Jerry  The Patchwork Quilt  Winner 1986
Ransome, James E.  The Creation  Winner 1995
Ringgold, Faith  Tar Beach  Winner 1992
Shange, Ntozake  Ellington Was Not a Street  Winner 2005
Steptoe, Javaka  In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers  Winner 1998
Steptoe, John  Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale  Winner 1988
Steptoe, John  Mama Crocodile. Maman-Caiman  Winner 1982
Wilson, Kathleen Atkins  The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth  Winner 1993
Wood, Michele  I See the Rhythm  Winner 1999

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