Coretta Scott King Book
Author & Illustrator Award Winners
List of other Coretta Scott King Awards
| Date | Title | Author award winners & Illustrator award winners |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | New Kid | Author award winner - Author Craft |
| The Undefeated | Illustrator award winner - Kwame Alexander author Kadir Nelson | |
| 2019 | A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot | Author award winner - Claire Hartfield |
| The Stuff of Stars | Illustrator award winner - Ekua Holmes, author Marion Dane Bauer | |
| 2018 | Piecing Me Together | Author award winner - Renee Watson |
| Out of Wonder: Poems celebrating poets | Illustrator award winner - Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley & Marjory Wentworth | |
| 2017 | March Book: three * | Author award winner - Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin |
| Radiant Child: the Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Illustrator award winner - Javaka Steptoe | |
| 2016 | Gone Crazy in Alabama | Author award winner - Rita Williams-Garcia |
| Trombone Shorty | Illustrator award winner - Bryan Collier | |
| 2015 | Brown girl dreaming | Author award winner - Jacqueline Woodson |
| Firebird | Illustrator award winner - Christopher Myers | |
| 2014 | P.S. Be Eleven | Author award winner - Rita Williams-Garcia |
| Knock knock: my dad’s dream for me | Illustrator award winner - Bryan Collier | |
| 2013 | Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America | Author award winner - Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| I, Too, Am America | Illustrator award winner - Bryan Collier | |
| 2012 | Heart and Soul: the Story of America and African Americans | Author award winner - Kadir Nelson |
| Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom | Illustrator award winner - Shane W. Evans | |
| 2011 | One Crazy Summer | Author award winner - Rita Williams-Garcia |
| Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave * | Illustrator award winner - Bryan Collier | |
| 2010 | Bad News for Outlaws: the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal | Author award winner - Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
| My People | Illustrator award winner - Charles R. Smith, Jr. | |
| 2009 | We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball | Author award winner - Kadir Nelson |
| the Blacker the Berry | Illustrator award winner - Floyd Cooper | |
| 2008 | Elijah of Buxton * | Author award winner - Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Let it Shine | Illustrator award winner - Ashley Bryan | |
| 2007 | Copper Sun * | Author award winner - Sharon Draper |
| When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Illustrator award winner - Kadir Nelson | |
| 2006 | Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue | Author award winner - Julius Lester |
| Rosa | Illustrator award winner - Bryan Collier | |
| 2005 | Remember: the Journey to School Integration | Author award winner - Toni Morrision |
| Elllington Was Not a Street | Illustrator award winner - Kadir Nelson | |
| 2004 | the First Part Last | Author award winner - Angela Johnson |
| Beautiful Blackbird | Illustrator award winner - Ashley Bryan | |
| 2003 | Bronx Masquerade | Author award winner - Nikki Grimes |
| Talkin' about Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman | Illustrator award winner - E. B. Lewis | |
| 2002 | the Land | Author award winner - Mildren Taylor |
| Goin' Someplace Special | Illustrator award winner - Jerry Pinkney | |
| 2001 | Miracle's Boys | Author award winner - Jacqueline Woodsen |
| Uptown | Illustrator award winner - Bryan Collier | |
| 2000 | Bud Not Buddy | Author award winner - Christopher paul Curtis |
| In the Time of teh Drums | Illustrator award winner - Brian Pinkney | |
| 1999 | Heaven | Author award winner - Angela Johnson |
| i see the rhythm | Illustration - Michele Wood | |
| 1998 | Forged by Fire | Author award winner - Sharon M. Draper |
| In Daddy's Arms I am Tall | Illustrator award winner - Javaka Steptoe | |
| 1997 | Slam! | Author award winner - Walter Dean Myers |
| Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman | Illustrator award winner - Jerry Pinkney | |
| 1996 | Her Stories | Author award winner - Virginia Hamilton, Illustrator award winner Leo and Diane Dillon |
| the Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo | Illustrator award winner - Tom Feelings | |
| 1995 | Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters | Author award winner -Christopher Paul Curtis |
| the Creation | Illustrator award winner - James E. Ransome | |
| 1994 | Toning the Sweep | Author award winner - Angela Johnson |
| Soul Looks Back in Wonder | Illustrator award winner -Tom Feelings | |
| 1993 | Dark thirty Southern Tales of the Supernatural | Author award winner - Patricia McKissack |
| the Origin of Life on Earth | Illustrator award winner - Kathleen Atkins Wilson | |
| 1992 | Now is Your Time! the African-American Struggle for Freedom | Author award winner - Walter Dean Myers |
| Tar Beach * | Illustrator award winner - Faith Ringhold | |
| 1991 | Road to Memphis * | Author award winner - Mildred D. Taylor |
| Aida | Illustrator award winner - Diane and Leo Dillon | |
| 1990 | Long Hard Journey | Author award winner - Patricia and Frederick McKissack |
| Nathaniel Talking | Illustrator award winner - Jan S. Gilchrest | |
| 1989 | Fallen Angels | Author award winner - Walter Dean Myers |
| Mirandy and Brother Wind | Author award winner - Jerry Pinkney | |
| 1988 | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters * | Author award winner - John Steptoe |
| What a Morning | Author award winner - Ashley Bryan | |
| 1987 | Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | Author award winner - Mildred Pitts Walter |
| Half a Moon and One Whole Star | Author award winner - Crescent Dragonwagon, Illustrator award winner - Jerry Pinkney | |
| 1986 | the People Could Fly | Author award winner - Virginia Hamilton |
| Patchwork Quilt * | Author award winner - by Valerie Flournoy, Illustrator award winner - Jerry Pinkney | |
| 1985 | Motown and Didi | Author award winner - Walter Dean Myers |
| 1984 | Everett Anderson's Goodbye | Author award winner - Lucille Clifton |
| Mama Needs Me | Author award winner - Mildred Pitts Walter, Illustrator award winner - Pat Cummings | |
| 1983 | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Author award winner - Virginia Hamilton |
| Black Child | Author award winner - Peter Magubane | |
| 1982 | Let the Circle Be Unbroken * | Author award winner - Mildred Taylor |
| Mother Crocodile | Author award winner - Birago Diop, Illustrator award winner - John Steptoe | |
| 1981 | this Life | Author award winner - Sidney Poitier |
| Beat the Story- Drum, Pum-Pum | Author award winner - Ashley Bryan | |
| 1980 | Young Landlords | Author award winner - Myers, Walter Dean |
| Cornrows | Author award winner - Camille Yarbrough, Illustrator award winner - Carole Byard | |
| 1979 | Escape to Freedom | Author award winner - Davis, Ossie |
| Something on My Mind | Author award winner - Tom Feelings | |
| 1978 | the Africa Dream | Author award winner - Eloise Greenfiel, and Cole Byard |
| 1977 | the Story of Stevie Wonder | Author award winner - Jame sHaskins |
| 1976 | Duey's Tale | Author award winner - Pearl Bailey |
| 1975 | the Legend of Africania | Author award winner - Dorothy Robinson and Herbert Temple |
| 1974 | Ray Charles | Author award winner - Sharon Bell Mathi and George Ford |
| 1973 | I Never Had it Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson | Author award winner - Alfred Duckett |
| 1972 | Seventeen Black Artists | Author award winner - Elton C. Fax |
* Highly recommended. Meaning no disrespect for others.