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Award Winning Books at the Sherman Library

Coretta Scott King Award

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 official Coretta Scott King Medal homepage.

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[i] = Illustrator; [a] = Author.

2008	Elijah of Buxton - Christopher Paul Curtis [a] Let it Shine - Ashley Bryan [i]
2007	Copper Sun - Sharon Draper [a] Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Kadir A. Nelson [i]
2006	Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue - Julius Lester [a] Rosa - Nikki Giovanni [i]
2005	Remember: The Journey to School Integration - Toni Morrison [a] Ellington Was Not a Street - Kadir A. Nelson [i]
2004	The First Part Last - Angela Johnson [a] Beautiful Blackbird - Ashley Bryan [i]
2003	Bronx Masquerade - Nikki Grimes [a] Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman - Earl B. Lewis [i]
2002	The Land - Mildred Taylor [a] Goin' Someplace Special - Jerry Pinkney [i]
2001	Miracle's Boys - Jacqueline Woodson [a] Uptown - Bryan Collier [i]
2000	Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis [a] In the Time of the Drums - Brian Pinkey [i]
1999	Heaven - Angela Johnson [a] I See the Rhythm - Michelle Wood [i]
1998	Forged by Fire - Sharon M. Draper [a] In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers - Javaka Steptoe [i]
1997	Slam - Walter Dean Myers [a] Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman - Jerry Pinkey [i]
1996	Her Stories - Virginia Hamilton [a] The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo - Tom Feelings [i]
1995	Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters - Patricia C. McKissack & Frederick L. McKissack [a] The Creation - James Ransome [i]
1994	Toning the Sweep - Angela Johnson [a] Soul Looks Back in Wonder - Tom Feelings [i]
1993	Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural - Patricia A. McKissack [a] The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth - Kathleen Atkins Wilson [i]
1992	Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom - Walter Dean Myers [a] Tar Beach - Faith Ringgold [i]
1991	The Road to Memphis - Mildred D. Taylor [a] Aida - Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon [i]
1990	A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter - Patricia C. McKissack & Frederick L. McKissack [a] Nathaniel Talking - Jan Spivey Gilchrist [i]
1989	Fallen Angels- Walter Dean Myers [a] Mirandy and Brother Wind - Jerry Pinkey [i]
1988	The Friendship - Mildred D. Taylor [a] Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters An African Tale - John Steptoe [i]
1987	Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World - Mildred Pitts Walter [a] Half a Moon and One Whole Star - Jerry Pinkey [i]
1986	The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales - Virginia Hamilton [a] The Patchwork Quilt - Jerry Pinkey [i]
1985	Motown and Didi - Walter Dean Myers [a] No Award Given [i]
1984	Everett Anderson's Good-bye - Lucille Clifton [a] My Mama Needs Me - Pat Cummings [i] The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr - Coretta Scott King (Special Citation)
1983	Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush - Virginia Hamilton [a] Black Child - Peter Mugabane [i]
1982	Let the Circle Be Unbroken - Mildred D. Taylor [a] Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal - John Steptoe [i]
1981	This Life - Sidney Poitier [a] Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum - Ashley Bryan [i]
1980	The Young Landlords - Walter Dean Myers [a] Cornrows - Carole Byard [i]
1979	Escape to Freedom: a Play About Young Frederick Douglass - Ossie Davis [a] Something on My Mind - Tom Feelings [i]
1978	Africa Dream - Eloise Greenfield [a] Africa Dream - Carole Bayard [i]
1977	The Story of Stevie Wonder - James Haskins [a] No Award Given [i]
1976	Duey's Tale - Pearl Bailey [a] No Award Given [i]
1975	The Legend of Africania - Dorothy Robinson [a] No Award Given [i]
1974	Ray Charles - Sharon Bell Mathis [a] Ray Charles - George Ford [i]
1973	I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson - As told to Alfred Duckett
1972	17 Black Artists - Elton C. Fax
1971	Black Troubador: Langston Hughes - Charlemae Rollins
1970	Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace - Lillie Patterson