Coretta Scott King Book Award. Winners 1975 to present.

Given to African American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream.The award is designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.

The John Steptoe Award for New Talent was established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force

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Elijah of Buxton and Let it Shine Win the 2008 Coretta Scott-King Book Award

PHILADELPHIA - Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Elijah Of Buxton and Ashley Bryan, illustrator of Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals are the winners of the 2008 Coretta Scott King Awards honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults. Sundee T. Frazier, author of Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award winner.

The awards were at the American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter Meeting that took place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, January 11-16.

Elijah Of Buxton, published by Scholastic, tells the story of 11-year-old Elijah, known to family and friends as “frag-ile,” and the community of former slaves who build a new life in Canada. Elijah's story introduces readers to “the” Mr. Frederick Douglass, a shyster “preacher” and the ill-fated Mr. Leroy. This serious and sensitive account includes numerous laugh-out-loud moments including a toady-frog incident and an episode showing Elijah's stone-chunking skills while catching fish for dinner. christopher_paul_davies

Mr. Curtis (right), a Michigan native, discovered his talent for writing while trying to relieve the boredom of working on the assembly line in an automobile plant in Flint, Mich.; the setting for his first two prize-winning novels. Curtis lives in Windsor, Canada, with his wife and family.

“Christopher Paul Curtis is particularly adept at capturing little-known aspects of the African American experience in Canada. Curtis' research brings alive the stories of escaped slaves.” said Award Jury Chair Carole McCollough.

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Christopher Paul Curtis is also the author of Bud, Not Buddy, which won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award in 2000-marking the first time that one novel received both prestigious awards in the same year, and also the first time in the history of the Newbery Medal that an African-American man received this honor. He also wrote Bucking the Sarge (Readers Circle) and Mr. Chickee's Funny Money.

Two King Author Honor Books were selected: November Blues, by last years winning author, Sharon M. Draper, published by Atheneum Books for Young Adults and Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, written by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, published by Candlewick Press.

“In Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals' written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan (left) and ashley_bryan published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Bryan uses bright-colored paper to create the collage figures that cover double-page spreads illustrating three selected spirituals,” said McCollough. “Bryan's meticulous attention to detailis evident in the accuracy of the musical notations provided for each song.”

Mr. Bryan is known internationally as a writer, storyteller and artist. He is the winner of numerous awards for his illustrations in children's books. After retirement from the art department of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., Bryan now lives on one of the Cranberry Islands in Maine. He has compiled, written and illustrated numerous books, many of them African folktale's, such as Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh and The Story of Lightning and Thunder. His collection of spirituals All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals was a previous Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, and Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.

Two Illustrator Honor Books were selected: The Secret Olivia Told Me, by N. Joy, illustrated by Nancy Dead, published by Just Us Books, and Jazz On A Saturday Night, by Leo and Diane Dillon, published by Scholastic Blue Sky Press.

Occasionally awarded, the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award rewards new talent and offers visibility to a children's book creator at the beginning of their career. This year the award is presented to Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, written by Sundee T. Frazier (below right) and published by Delacorte Press. Ten-year-old Brendan, a Tae Kwon Do blue belt, takes a scientific approach to everything he does, asking questions and recording answers. Brendan daringly seeks answers to the conflict surrounding his biracial family and discovers a grandfather he never knew he had.

The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Committee of ALA's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT).

Members of the 2008 Coretta Scott King Book Award Jury were: Jury Chair Carole McCollough, educational consultant, Southfield, Mich.; Bettye Loggins Smith, District of Columbia Public Library, Washington; Henrietta M. Smith, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla.; Adelaide Poniatowski Phelps, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich.; Brenda M. Hunter, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, Atlanta; Martha Ruff, Prince George's County Memorial Library System, Oxon Hill, Md. and Denyvetta Davis, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City.

2007 Draper, Nelson win Coretta Scott King Awards

SEATTLE – Sharon Draper, author of Copper Sun, and Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Moses; When Harriet Tubman Lead Her People to Freedom (also Caldecott Honor Book) are the winners of the 2007 Coretta Scott King Awards honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults. Traci L. Jones (righT), author of Standing Against the Windis the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award winner.

The awards were announced at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. In Copper Sun, 15-year-old Amari’s struggle with the evils of slavery will resonate with today’s teens. Amari is brutally dragged from her home in Africa, forced onto a slave ship and eventually sold as a gift for a plantation owner’s son. Forming an unlikely alliance with an indentured servant and a young slave boy, the threesome escape and set off on a treacherous journey of hope and survival

2007 Coretta Scott King Book Award Recipients

Author Award

Sharon Draper

Copper Sun
published by Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Illustrator Award

Kadir Nelson

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) written by Carole Boston Weatherford, published by Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children

John Steptoe New Talent Award - Author

Traci L. Jones

Standing Against the Wind (Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Author (Awards)
published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2007 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Books -Author

Nikki Grimes

The Road to Paris
published by G.P. Putnum’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group

2007 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Books -Illustrator

Christopher Myers

Jazz
written by Walter Dean Myers, published by Holiday House, Inc

Benny Andrews

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad, published by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

Winners &Honor Book Coretta Scott-King Award 1975-2006

2006
Author Award Winner

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester (published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)
Author Honor Books

Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden (published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers)

Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes (published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson Illustrated by Philippe Lardy (published by Houghton Mifflin Company)
Illustrator Award Winner

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier (published by Henry Holt and Company)
Illustrator Honor Books

Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudanby R. Gregory Christie, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (published by Lee and Low Books)

2005
Author Award Winner

Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison (Houghton Mifflin)
Author Honor Books

The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)

Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)

Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
Illustrator Award Book

Ellington Was Not a Street, illustrated by Kadir A. Nelson; text by Ntozake Shange (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Illustrator Honor Books

God Bless the Child, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's)

2004
Author Award Winner

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Author Honor Books

Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack (Scholastic)

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (Grosset & Dunlap)

The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Illustrator Award Book

Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Illustrator Honor Books

Almost to Freedom, illustrated by Colin Bootman; text by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)

Thunder Rose, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; text by Jerdine Nolen (Silver Whistle)

2003
Author Award Winner

Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Author Honor Books

The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods (G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes (Orchard Books/Scholastic)
Illustrator Award Winner

Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Nikki Grimes (Orchard Books/Scholastic)
Illustrator Honor Books

Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That, illustrated and written by Leo and Diane Dillion (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic)

Visiting Langston, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Willie Perdomo (Henry Holt & Co.)

The Land by Mildred Taylor (Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam)
Author Honor Books

Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
Illustrator Award Winner

Goin’ Someplace Special, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum)
Illustrator Honor Books

Martin’s Big Words, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rappoport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
2001
Author Award Winner

Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Author Honor Books

Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Gulliver Books, Harcourt)
Illustrator Award Winner

Uptown by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt)
Illustrator Honor Books

Freedom River, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rapport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; text by Anne Rockwell (Random House)

Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, illustrated by E.B. Lewis; text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster)

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Author Honor Books

Francie by Karen English (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic Press)

Monster by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
Illustrator Award Winner

In the Time of the Drums, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)
Illustrator Honor Books

My Rows and Piles of Coins, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion Books)

Black Cat by Christopher Myers (Scholastic)

Heaven by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
Author Honor Books

Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books)

Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan (Henry Holt and Company)

The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson (Orchard Books)
Illustrator Award Winner

i see the rhythm, illustrated by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus (Children’s Book Press)
Illustrator Honor Books

I Have Heard of a Land, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)

The Bat Boy and His Violin, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster)

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children)

Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)
Author Honor Books

Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion)

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)
Illustrator Award Winner

In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low)
Illustrator Honor Books

Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Harlem, illustrated by Christopher Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)

The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wagué Diakité (Scholastic)

Slam by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Author Honor Books

Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Illustrator Award Winner

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Illustrator Honor Books

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, illustrated by Gregorie Christie; edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.)

Running the Road to ABC, illustrated by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, illustrated by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia (Delacorte)

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
Illustrator Award Winner
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Illustrator Honor Books

Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)

The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

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1995
Author Award Winner
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Author Honor Books

The Captive by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)

I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)

Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Illustrator Award Winner

The Creation, illustrated by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House)
Illustrator Honor Books

The Singing Man, illustrated by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House)

Meet Danitra Brown, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)

Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
Author Honor Books

Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)

Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Illustrator Award Winner

Soul Looks Back in Wonder, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Illustrator Honor Books

Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins)

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, illustrated by James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)

Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack (Knopf)
Author Honor Books

Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (Bradbury)

Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Illustrator Award Winner

The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights)
Illustrator Honor Books

Little Eight John, illustrated by Wil Clay; text by Jan Wahl (Lodestar)

Sukey and the Mermaid, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Four Winds)

Working Cotton, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)

Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
Author Honor Books

Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial)
Illustrator Award Winner

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Crown)
Illustrator Honor Books

All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals, illustrated and selected by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)

Night on Neighborhood Street, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
Author Honor Books

Black Dance in America by James Haskins (Crowell)

When I Am Old with You by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
Illustrator Award Winner

Aida, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price (Harcourt)

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Walker)
Author Honor Books

Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly)

The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson (Facts on File)
Illustrator Award Winner

Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly)
Illustrator Honor Books

The Talking Eggs, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci (Dial)

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Author Honor Books

A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry (Orchard)

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)
Illustrator Award Winner

Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
Illustrator Honor Books

Under the Sunday Tree, illustrated by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield (Harper)

Storm in the Night, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz (Harper)

The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor (Dial)
Author Honor Books

An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester (Dial)
Illustrator Award Winner

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe (Lothrop)
Illustrator Honor Books

What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan; selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan)

The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, illustrated by JoeSam.; compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al (Children’s Press)

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)
Author Honor Books

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)

Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen (Walker)
Illustrator Award Winner

Half a Moon and One Whole Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon (Macmillan)
Illustrator Honor Books

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)

C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings (Lothrop)
1986
Author Award Winner

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)
Author Honor Books

Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)

Trouble’s Child by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)
Illustrator Award Winner

The Patchwork Quilt, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy (Dial)
Illustrator Honor Books

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton(Knopf)

Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)
Author Honor Books

Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd (Apple/Scholastic)

A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
Illustrator Award Winner

No award

Everett Anderson’s Good-bye by Lucille Clifton (Holt)
Special Citation

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled by Coretta Scott King (Newmarket Press)
Author Honor Books

The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)

Lena Horne by James Haskins (Coward-McCann)

Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas (Avon)

Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter
Illustrator Award Winner

My Mama Needs Me, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
Author Honor Books

This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester (Dial)
Illustrator Award Winner

Black Child by Peter Mugabane (Knopf)
Illustrator Honor Books

All the Colors of the Race, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop)

I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)

Just Us Women, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines (Harper)

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
Author Honor Books

Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress (Coward-McCann)

Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter (Scribner)

Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane (Viking)
Illustrator Award Winner

Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy (Delacorte)
Illustrator Honor Books

Daydreamers, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

This Life by Sidney Poitier (Knopf)
Author Honor Books

Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)
Illustrator Award Winner

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Illustrator Honor Books

Grandmama’s Joy, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Collins)

Count on Your Fingers African Style, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Claudia Zaslavsky (Crowell)

The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)
Author Honor Books

Movin’ Up by Berry Gordy (Harper)

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little (Harper)

Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission by James Haskins (Lothrop)

James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man by James Haskins (Dodd)

Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (Scribner)
Illustrator Award Winner

Cornrows, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough (Coward-McCann)

Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis (Viking)
Author Honor Books

Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson (Abingdon)

I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson (Harper)

Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton (Greenwillow)

Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner (Random)
Illustrator Award Winner

Something on My Mind, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes (Dial)

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Carole Bayard (Crowell)
Author Honor Books

The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner (Follett)

Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass (St. Martin’s)

Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)

Barbara Jordan by James Haskins (Dial)

Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)

Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart (Doubleday)
Illustrator Award Winner

Africa Dream, illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)

The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins (Lothrop)
Illustrator Award Winner

No award
1976
Author Award Winner

Duey’s Tale by Pearl Bailey (Harcourt)
Illustrator Award Winner

No award

The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson (Johnson Publishing)
Illustrator Award Winner

No award