The Coretta Scott King Award
Established in 1969, this award is presented annually to an African-American author
and an African-American illustrator for an outstanding inspirational and educational
contribution published during the previous year. The separate award for illustration was added in 1979.
The 2008 King Award Winners
For Text:
Christopher Paul Curtis
Elijah of Buxton
For Illustrator:
Ashley Bryan
Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
by Ashley Bryan
YEAR |
AWARD FOR TEXT |
AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATION |
| 2007 | Sharon Draper - Copper Sun | Kader Nelson - Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford |
| 2006 | Julius Lester - Day of Tears: a Novel in Disguise | Bryan Collier- Rosa by Nikki Giovanni |
| 2005 | Toni Morrison - Remember: the Journey to School Integration | Kadir Nelson - Ellington Was Not a Street |
| 2004 | Angela Johnson - The First Part Last | Ashley Bryan - Beautiful Blackbird |
| 2003 | Nikki Grimes - Bronx Masquerade | E.B. Lewis - Talkin' About Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman |
| 2002 | Mildred D. Taylor -The Land | Jerry Pinkney - Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack |
| 2001 | Jacqueline Woodson - Miracle's Boys | Bryan Collier - Uptown |
| 2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy | Brian Pinkney - In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson |
| 1999 | Angela Johnson - Heaven | Michele Wood - i see the rhythm by Toyomi Igus |
| 1998 | Sharon M. Draper - Forged by Fire | Javaka Steptoe - In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall |
| 1997 | Walter Dean Myers - Slam! | Jerry Pinkney - Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
| 1996 | Virginia Hamilton - Her Stories | Tom Feelings, The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo |
| 1995 | Patricia and Frederick McKissack - Christmas in the Big House | James Ransome - The Creation by James Weldon Johnson |
| 1994 | Angela Johnson - Toning the Sweep | Tom Feelings - Soul Looks Back in Wonder |
| 1993 | Patricia McKissack - The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural | Kathleen Atkins Wilson - The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by David A. Anderson |
| 1992 | Walter Dean Myers - Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom | Faith Ringgold - Tar Beach |
| 1991 | Mildred D. Taylor - The Road to Memphis | Leo and Diane Dillon - Aida by Leontyne Price |
| 1990 | Patricia and Frederick McKissack - A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter | Jan Spivey Gilchrist - Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield |
| 1989 | Walter Dean Myers - Fallen Angels | Jerry Pinkney - Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack |
| 1988 | Mildred D. Taylor - The Friendship | John Steptoe - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale |
| 1987 | Mildred Pitts Walter - Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | Jerry Pinkney - Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon |
| 1986 | Virginia Hamilton - The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
Jerry Pinkney - The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy |
| 1985 | Walter Dean Myers - Motown and Didi | No award given |
| 1984 | Lucille Clifton - Everett Anderson's Goodbye | Pat Cummings - My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter |
| 1983 | Virginia Hamilton - Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Peter Magubane - Black Child |
| 1982 | Mildred D. Taylor - Let the Circle Be Unbroken | John Steptoe - Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal adapted by Rosa Guy |
| 1981 | Sidney Poitier - This Life | Ashley Bryan - Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum |
| 1980 | Walter Dean Myers - The Young Landlords | Carole Byard - Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough |
| 1979 | Ossie Davis - Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass |
Tom Feelings - Something On My Mind by Nikki Grimes |
| 1978 | Eloise Greenfield, text and Carole Byard, illustration - Africa Dream | |
| 1977 | James Haskins - The Story of Stevie Wonder | |
| 1976 | Pearl Bailey - Duey's Tale | |
| 1975 | Dorothy Robinson, text, and Herbert Temple, illustration - The Legend of Africania | |
| 1974 | Sharon Bell Mathis, text, and George Ford, illustration - Ray Charles | |
| 1973 | Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett - I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson | |
| 1972 | Elton C. Fax - Seventeen Black Artists | |
| 1971 | Charlemae H. Rollins - Black Troubador: Langston Hughes | |
| 1970 | Lillie Patterson - Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace | |
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