Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-
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This page provides a chronological listing of Coretta Scott King Award Winner titles.
"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.'"
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Chronological List
1970s |
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- 1970 Award Winner
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1971 Award Winner
- Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1972 Award Winner
- 17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1973 Award Winner
- I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett
- GV865.R6 A3 1995b West Stacks
- (catalog record)
- 1974 Author Award Winner
- Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1974 Illustrator Award Winner
- Ray Charles by George Ford
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1975 Author Award Winner
- The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson
- Fic R561le West Curriculum
- An allegorical tale of Africa's struggle against the ravishment of its people and country. (catalog record)
- 1975 Illustrator Award Winner
- No award
- 1976 Author Award Winner
- Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1976 Illustrator Award Winner
- No award
- 1977 Author Award Winner
- The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1977 Illustrator Award Winner
- No award
- 1978 Author Award Winner
- Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1978 Illustrator Award Winner
- Africa Dream by Carole Bayard
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
- 1979 Author Award Winner
- Escape to Freedom: a Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
- SPEC CT-358 Hayden Special Collections (Library Use Only)
- Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom. (catalog record)
- 1979 Illustrator Award Winner
- Something on My Mind by Tom Feelings
- Not owned by the ASU West Libraries.
1980s |
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- 1980 Author Award Winner
- The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
- Fic M992yo Hayden Curriculum
- Five devoted friends become landlords and try to make their Harlem neighborhood a better place to live. (catalog record)
- 1980 Illustrator Award Winner
- Cornrows by Carole Byard
- Easy Y2co West Curriculum
- Explains how the hair style of cornrows, a symbol in Africa since ancient times, can today in this country symbolize the courage of outstanding Afro-Americans. (catalog record)
- 1981 Author Award Winner
- This Life by Sidney Poitier
- PN2287.P57 A37 1980 West Stacks
- (catalog record)
- 1981 Illustrator Award Winner
- Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
- 398.2 B38br Hayden Curriculum
- Hen and Frog.--Why Bush Cow and Elephant are bad friends.--The husband who counted the spoonfuls.--Why Frog and Snake never play together.--How animals got their tails. (catalog record)
- 1982 Author Award Winner
- Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
- Fic T2165l Hayden Curriculum
- Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive. (catalog record)
- 1982 Illustrator Award Winner
- Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal by John Steptoe
- 398.2 D623mo Hayden Curriculum
- Because Mother Crocodile tells stories of the past, the little crocodiles choose to believe she is crazy until almost too late they learn otherwise. (catalog record)
- 1983 Author Award Winner
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
- Fic H18sw West Curriculum
- Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems. (catalog record)
- 1983 Illustrator Award Winner
- Black Child by Peter Mugabane
- DT763.6 .M33 Hayden Stacks
- (catalog record)
- 1984 Author Award Winner
- Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton
- Easy C613ev West Curriculum
- Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies. (catalog record)
- 1984 Special Citation
- The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Coretta Scott King
- E185.97.K5 A25 1983 Hayden Stacks & E185.97.K5 A25 1987 Hayden Stacks
- (catalog record)
- 1984 Illustrator Award Winner
- My Mama Needs Me by Pat Cummings
- Easy W171my West Curriculum
- Jason wants to help, but isn't sure that his mother needs him at all after she brings home a new baby from the hospital. (catalog record)
- 1985 Author Award Winner
- Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
- Fic M992mo West Curriculum
- Motown and Didi, two teenage loners in Harlem, become allies in a fight against Touchy, the drug dealer whose dope is destroying Didi's brother, and find themselves falling in love with each other. (catalog record)
- 1985 Illustrator Award Winner
- No award
- 1986 Author Award Winner
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
- 398.2 H18pe West Curriculum
- Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope. (catalog record)
- 1986 Illustrator Award Winner
- The Patchwork Quilt by Jerry Pinkney
- Easy F668p West Curriculum
- Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life. (catalog record)
- 1987 Author Award Winner
- Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
- Fic W171ju West Curriculum
- Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch. (catalog record)
- 1987 Illustrator Award Winner
- Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Jerry Pinkney
- Easy D787h 1986 Hayden Curriculum
- The summer night is full of wonderful sounds and scents as Susan falls asleep. (catalog record)
- 1988 Author Award Winner
- The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
- Fic T2165fr Hayden Curriculum
- Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. (catalog record)
- 1988 Illustrator Award Winner
- Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
- Easy St45mu West Curriculum
- Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife. (catalog record)
- 1989 Author Award Winner
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- Fic M992fa West Curriculum
- Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. (catalog record)
- 1989 Illustrator Award Winner
- Mirandy and Brother Wind by Jerry Pinkey
- Easy M217mi West Curriculum
- To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. (catalog record)
1990s |
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- 1990 Author Award Winner
- A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. McKissack & Frederick L. McKissack
- 331.88 M217lo West Curriculum
- A chronicle of the first black-controlled union, made up of Pullman porters, who after years of unfair labor practices staged a battle against a corporate giant resulting in a "David and Goliath" ending. (catalog record)
- 1990 Illustrator Award Winner
- Nathaniel Talking by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- 811 G837na, 1988 West Curriculum
- (catalog record)
- 1991 Author Award Winner
- The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
- Fic T2165ro West Curriculum
- Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state. (catalog record)
- 1991 Illustrator Award Winner
- Aida by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon
- 782.1 P931ai West Curriculum
- Retells the story of Verdi's opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved. (catalog record)
- 1992 Author Award Winner
- Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
- 973 M992no West Curriculum
- A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times. (catalog record)
- 1992 Illustrator Award Winner
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
- Easy R473ta West Curriculum
- A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name. (catalog record)
- 1993 Author Award Winner
- Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack
- Fic M2175da West Curriculum
- A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. (catalog record)
- 1993 Illustrator Award Winner
- The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth by Kathleen Atkins Wilson
- 398.21 An23or West Curriculum
- Retells the Yoruba creation myth in which the deity Obatala descends from the sky to create the world. (catalog record)
- 1994 Author Award Winner
- Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
- Fic J6295to West Curriculum
- On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living. (catalog record)
- 1994 Illustrator Award Winner
- Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Tom Feelings
- 811.008 So83an West Curriculum
- Artwork and poems by such writers as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Askia Toure portray the creativity, strength, and beauty of their African American heritage. (catalog record)
- 1995 Author Award Winner
- Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. McKissack & Frederick L. McKissack
- 975 M217ch West Curriculum
- Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War. (catalog record)
- 1995 Illustrator Award Winner
- The Creation by James Ransome
- 811 J633cr 1994 West Curriculum
- A poem based on the story of creation from the first book of the Bible. (catalog record)
- 1996 Author Award Winner
- Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton
- GR111.A47 H35 1995 West Stacks
- Her animal tales: Little girl and Buh Rabby -- Lena and big one tiger -- Marie and redfish -- Miz Hattie gets some company -- Her fairy tales: Catskinella -- Good Blanche, bad Rose, and the talking eggs -- Mary Belle and the mermaid -- Mom Bett and the little ones a-glowing -- Her supernatural: Who you! -- Macie and Boo Hag -- Lonna and cat woman -- Malindy and little devil -- Her folkways and legends: Woman and man started even -- Luella and the tame parrot -- The mer-woman out of the sea -- Annie Christmas -- Her true tales: Millie Evans: plantation times -- Lettice Boyer: from way back -- Mary Lou Thorton: my family. (catalog record)
- 1996 Illustrator Award Winner
- The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings
- ND237.F32 A4 1995 West Stacks
- (catalog record)
- 1997 Author Award Winner
- Slam by Walter Dean Myers
- Fic M992sl 1996 West Curriculum
- Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. (catalog record)
- 1997 Illustrator Award Winner
- Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Jerry Pinkey
- 92 T79sch 1996 West Curriculum
- Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s. (catalog record)
- 1998 Author Award Winner
- Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
- Fic D7918fo 1997 West Curriculum
- Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. (catalog record)
- 1998 Illustrator Award Winner
- In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka Steptoe
- 811.008 In1 1997 West Curriculum
- A collection of poems celebrating African-American fathers by Angela Johnson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Carole Boston Weatherford, and others. (catalog record)
- 1999 Author Award Winner
- Heaven by Angela Johnson
- Fic J6295h 1998 West Curriculum
- Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents. (catalog record)
- 1999 Illustrator Award Winner
- i see the rhythm by Michelle Wood
- 780.89 Ig8i 1998 West Curriculum
- Chronicles and captures poetically the history, mood, and movement of African American music. (catalog record)
2000s |
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- 2000 Author Award Winner
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Fic C941bu 1999 West Curriculum
- Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. (catalog record)
- 2000 Illustrator Award Winner
- In the Time of the Drums by Brian Pinkey
- Easy Si153in 1999 West Curriculum
- Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship. (catalog record)
- 2001 Author Award Winner
- Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
- Fic W868mi 2000 West Curriculum
- Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother. (catalog record)
- 2001 Illustrator Award Winner
- Uptown by Bryan Collier
- Easy C689up 2000 West Curriculum
- A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River. (catalog record)
- 2002 Author Award Winner
- The Land by Mildred Taylor
- Fic T2165la 2001 West Curriculum
- After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. (catalog record)
- 2002 Illustrator Award Winner
- Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney
- Easy M217go 2001 West Curriculum
- In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library. (catalog record)
- 2003 Author Award Winner
- Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
- Fic G8826br 2002 West Curriculum
- While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. (catalog record)
- 2003 Illustrator Award Winner
- Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by E(arl) B. Lewis
- 92 C677gr 2002 West Curriculum
- A biography of the first licensed female African American pilot. (catalog record)
- 2004 Author Award Winner
- The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
- Fic J6295fi 2003 West Curriculum
- Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. (catalog record)
- 2004 Illustrator Award Winner
- Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
- 398.2 B84be 2003 West Curriculum
- In a story of the Ila people, the colorful birds of Africa ask Blackbird, whom they think is the most beautiful of birds, to decorate them with some of his "blackening brew." (catalog record)
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