2008
Author Award Winner: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator Award Winner:
Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan
2007 Author Award Winner: Copper Sun by
Sharon Draper
Illustrator Award Winner:
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by
Kadir Nelson and written by Carole Boston Weatherford
New Talent Award Winner:
Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones
Author Honor Book:The
Road to Paris by Nikki
Grimes
Illustrator Honor Books: Jazz by Christopher Myers and Poetry
for Young People: Langston Hughes by Benny Andrews
2006
Author Award Winner:
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
by
Julius
Lester
Illustrator Award Winner:
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
New Talent Award Winner: Jimi & Me by
Jaime Adoff
Author Honor Books:
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Maritcha:A Nineteenth-Century American
Girl by Tonya Bolder
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Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
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A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn
Nelson |
Illustrator
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:
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The Legend of Buddy
Bush by Shelia P. Moses |
|
Who Am I Without Him?:
Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by
Sharon G. Flake |
| Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requium
by Marilyn Nelson |
2004 Author Award Winner:
The
First Part Last by
Angela Johnson
Honor Books:
| Days
of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by
Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack |
| Locomotion by
Jacqueline Woodson |
| The Battle of Jericho by
Sharon M. Draper |
Illustrator Award Winner: Beautiful
Blackbird by
Ashley Bryan
Honor Books:
| Almost to Freedom by
Colin Bootman |
| Thunder Rose by
Kadir Nelson |
2003 Author Award Winner: 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 |
2003 Illustrator Award Winner: Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator
Elizabeth Coleman by
E. B. Lewis
Honor Books:
| Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That
by Leo and Diane Dillion |
| Visiting Langston by
Bryan Collier |
2002 Author Award Winner: The Land
by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Books:
| Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake |
| Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson |
2002 Illustrator Award Winner:
Goin' Someplace Special, illustrated by
Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
Honor Book:
|
Martin's Big
Words, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rappoport |
2001 Author Award Winner: 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 |
2001 Illustrator Award Winner:
Uptown by Bryan Collier
Honor Books:
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Freedom River by Bryan Collier |
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Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; text by Anne Rockwell |
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Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys illustrated by
E. B. Lewis; text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard |
2000 Author Award Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Book:
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Francie by Karen English |
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Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack |
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Monster by Walter Dean Myers |
2000 Illustrator Award Winner:
In the Time of the Drums, ill. by Brian
Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson
Honor Books:
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My Rows and Piles of Coins, ill. by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M.
Mollel |
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Black Cat by Christopher Myers |
1999 Author Award Winner:
Heaven
by Angela Johnson
Honor Book:
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Jazmin's
Notebook by Nikki Grimes |
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Breaking
Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce
Hansen and Gary McGowan |
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The
Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson |
1999 Illustrator Award Winner: i
see the rhythm, ill. by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus
Honor Books:
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I
Have Heard of a Land, ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas |
|
The
Bat Boy and His Violin, ill. by E.B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis |
|
Duke
Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by
Andrea Davis Pinkney |
1998 Author Award Winner: Forged by Fire
by Sharon M. Draper
Honor Book:
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Bayard
Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins |
|
I
Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce
Hansen |
1998 Illustrator Award Winner:
In
Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, ill. by Javaka
Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder
Honor Books:
|
Ashley
Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry, by Ashley Bryan |
|
Harlem,
ill. by Christopher Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers |
|
The
Hunterman and the Crocodile, by Baba Wagué Diakité |
1997 Author Award Winner: Slam by Walter
Dean Myers
Honor Book
|
Rebels
Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. & Frederick L.
McKissack |
1997 Illustrator Award Winner:
Minty:
A Story of Young Harriet Tubman ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder
Honor Books
|
The
Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, ill. by Gregorie Christie;
ed. by David Adedjouma |
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Running
The Road To ABC, ill. by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture |
|
Neeny
Coming, Neeny Going, ill. by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English |
1996 Author Award Winner:
Her
Stories by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books
|
The
Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis |
|
Like
Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia |
|
From
the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson |
1996 Illustrator Award Winner:
The
Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings
Honor Books
|
Her
Stories, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton |
|
The
Faithful Friend, ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci |
1995 Author Award Winner:
Christmas
in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L.
McKissack
Honor Books
|
The
Captive by Joyce Hansen |
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I
Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson |
|
Black
Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. & Frederick L.
McKissack |
1995 Illustrator Award Winner:
The
Creation, ill. by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson
Honor Books
|
The
Singing Man, ill. by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis |
|
Meet
Danitra Brown, ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes |
1994 Author Award Winner:
Toning
the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Honor Books
|
Brown
Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; ill. by Floyd Cooper |
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Malcolm
X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers |
1994 Illustrator Award Winner:
Soul
Looks Back in Wonder, ill. by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman
Honor Books
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Brown
Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas |
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Uncle
Jed's Barbershop, ill. by James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell |
1993 Author Award Winner:
Dark
Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack
Honor Books
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Mississippi
Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter |
|
Sojourner
Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack |
|
Somewhere
in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers |
1993 Illustrator Award Winner:
The
Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth, ill. by Kathleen Atkins
Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights)
Honor Books
|
Little
Eight John, ill. by Wil Clay; text by Jan Wahl |
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Sukey
and the Mermaid, ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci |
|
Working
Cotton, ill. by Carole Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams |
1992 Author Award Winner:
Now is
Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Book
|
Night
on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist |
1992 Illustrator Award Winner:
Tar
Beach by Faith Ringgold
Honor Books
|
All
Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African American Spirituals, ill. and
selected by Ashley Bryan |
|
Night
on Neighborhood Street, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, text by Eloise Greenfield |
1991 Author Award 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 |
1991 Illustrator Award Winner:
Aida,
ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price
1990 Author Award Winner:
A Long
Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L.
McKissack
Honor Books
|
Nathaniel
Talking by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist |
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The
Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton |
|
Martin
Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson |
1990 Illustrator Award Winner: Nathaniel Talking,
ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield
Honor Book
|
The
Talking Eggs, ill. by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci |
1989 Author Award 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 |
1989 Illustrator Award Winner:
Mirandy
and Brother Wind, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
Honor Books
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Under
the Sunday Tree, ill. by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield |
|
Storm
in the Night, ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz |
1988 Author Award Winner: The Friendship
by Mildred L. Taylor
Honor Books
|
An
Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux |
|
The
Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester |
1988 Illustrator Award Winner:
Mufaro's
Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe
Honor Books
|
What
a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, ill. by Ashley Bryan;
selected by John Langstaff |
|
The
Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, ill. by Joe
Sam; compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al |
1987 Author Award 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 |
1987 Illustrator Award Winner: Half a Moon and One
Whole Star, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon
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 Author Award Winner: The People Could Fly:
American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon
Honor Books
|
Junius
Over Far by Virginia Hamilton |
|
Trouble's
Child by Mildred Pitts Walte |
1986 Illustrator Award Winner:
The
Patchwork Quilt, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy
Honor Book
|
The
People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by
Virginia Hamilton |
1985 Author Award Winner:
Motown
and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books
|
Circle
of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd |
|
A
Little Love by Virginia Hamilton |
1985 Illustrator Award Winner: No award
1984 Author Award Winner:
Everett
Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton
Special Citation:
The Words of
Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, compiler
Honor Books
|
The
Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton |
|
Lena
Horne by James Haskins |
|
Bright
Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas |
|
Because
We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter |
1984 Illustrator Award Winner:
My
Mama Needs Me, ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter
1983 Author Award Winner:
Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Book
|
This
Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester |
1983 Illustrator Award Winner:
Black
Child by Peter Mugabane
Honor Books
|
All
the Colors of the Race, ill. by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff |
|
I'm
Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, ill. by Ashley Bryan |
|
Just
Us Women, ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines |
1982 Author Award 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 |
1982 Illustrator Award Winner:
Mother
Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, ill. by John Steptoe; text by Rosa
Guy
Honor Book
|
Daydreamers,
ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield |
1981 Author Award Winner:
This
Life by Sidney Poitier
Honor Book
|
Don't
Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux |
1981 Illustrator Award Winner:
Beat
the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
Honor Books
|
Grandmama's
Joy, ill. by Carole Byard; text by Eloise Greenfield |
|
Count
on Your Fingers African Style, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Claudia Zaslavsky |
1980 Author Award Winner:
The
Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books
|
Movin'
Up by Berry Gordy |
|
Childtimes:
A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little |
|
Andrew
Young: Young Man With a Mission by James Haskins |
|
James
Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins |
|
Let
the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland |
1980 Illustrator Award Winner: Cornrows,
ill. by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough
1979 Author Award Winner:
Escape
to Freedom by Ossie Davis
Honor Books
|
Benjamin
Banneker 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 |
1979 Illustrator Award Winner:
Something
on My Mind, ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes
1978 Author Award Winner:
Africa
Dream by Eloise Greenfield; ill. by Carole Bayard
Honor Books
|
The
Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William
J. Faulkner |
|
Marvin
and Tige by Frankcina Glass |
|
Mary
McCleod 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 |
1978 Illustrator Award Winner:
Africa
Dream, ill. by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield
1977 Author Award Winner:
The
Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
1977 Illustrator Award Winner: No award
1976 Author Award Winner:
Duey's
Tale by Pearl Bailey
1976 Illustrator Award Winner: No award
1975 Author Award Winner:
The
Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson
1975 Illustrator Award Winner: No award
1974 Author Award Winner:
Ray
Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; ill. by George Ford
1974 Illustrator Award Winner:
Ray
Charles, ill. by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis
(Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only)
1973 Award Winner:
I Never Had It
Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as
told to Alfred Duckett
1972 Award Winner:
17 Black
Artists by Elton C. Fax
1971 Award Winner:
Black
Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
1970
Award Winner: Martin Luther
King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
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The Coretta Scott King Award honors African American authors and illustrators for
outstanding contributions to children's and young adult literature that promote
understanding and appreciation of the culture and contribution of all people to the
realization of the American Dream.