1989
Text – Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Mirandy and Brother Wind Illustrated by
Jerry Pinkney (Text: Patricia McKissack)
1980
Text – The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Cornrows Illustrated by Carole Byard (Text:
Camille Yarborough)
1988
Text – The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration – Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An
African Tale by John Steptoe
1979
Text – Escape To Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick
Douglass by Ossie Davis
Illustration – Something On My Mind Illustrated by Tom
Feelings (Text: Nikki Grimes )
1987
Text - Justin and Best Biscuits in the World by
Mildred Pitts Walter
Illustration –Half a Moon and One Whole Star
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Text: Crescent
Dragonwagon)
1986
Text – The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Virginia Hamilton
Illustration – The Patchwork Quilt Illustrated by Jerry
Pinkney (Text: Valerie Flournoy)
1985
Text – Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – No award given
1984
Text – Everett Anderson’s Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
Illustration – My Mama Needs Me Illustrated by Pat
Cummings (Text: Mildred Pitts Walter)
1983
Text – Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia
Hamilton
Illustration – Black Child by Peter Magubane
1982
Text – Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration – Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale
From Senegal Illustrated by John Steptoe (Text
adapted by Rosa Guy)
1981
Text – This Life by Sidney Poitier
Illustration – Beat The Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
by Ashley Bryan
The Coretta Scott King
Award
American Library Association (Social
Responsibilities Round Table)
1978
Text – Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield
Illustration – Africa Dream Illustrated by Carole Bayard
(Text: Eloise Greenfield)
1977
Text – The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
Illustration – No award given
1976
Text – Duey’s Tale by Pearl Bailey
Illustration – No award given
1975
Text – The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson
Illustration – No award given
1974
Text – Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis
Illustration – Ray Charles Illustrated by George Ford (Text:
Sharon Bell Mathis)
*Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only
The Coretta Scott King Award was established in
1969. It is designed to commemorate the life
and work of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her
courage and determination in continuing to work
for peace and world brotherhood. It is
presented annually to an African American
author and an African American illustrator for an
outstandingly inspirational and educational
contribution published during the previous year.
Winners:
1973
I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
by Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Ducket
2017
Text - March: Book Three by John Lewis and
1972
Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax
Illustration - Radiant Child: The Story of Young
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka
1971
Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes by Charlemae H. Rollins
1970
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
Steptoe
2016
Text - Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita WilliamsGarcia
Illustration - Trombone Shortly Illustrated by
Bryan Collier (Text: Troy Andrews)
2007
Text – Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Illustration – Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People
to Freedom Illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Text: Carole
Boston Weatherford)
1997
Text – Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Minty: A Story of Young Harriet
Tubman Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Text:
Alan Schroeder)
2015
Text – Brown Girl Dreaming by J acqueline Woodson
Illustration– Firebird Illustrated by Christopher Myers
(Text: Misty Copeland)
2006
Text – Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
Illustration – Rosa Illustrated by Bryan Collier (Text: Nikki
Giovanni)
1996
Text – Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton
Illustration – The Middle Passage: White Ships Black
Cargo by Tom Feelings (Introduction by John
Henrik Clarke)
2014
Text – P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
Illustration– Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me
Illustrated by Bryan Collier (Text: Daniel Beaty)
2005
Text - Remember: The Journey to School Integration by
Toni Morrison
Illustration – Ellington Was Not a Street Illustrated by Kadir
Nelson(Text: Ntozake Shange)
2013
Text – Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed
America by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustration – I, Too, Am America Illustrated by Bryan
Collier (Text: Langston Hughes)
2004
Text – The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Illustration – Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
2012
Text – Heart and Soul: The Story of America and
African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Illustration – Underground: Finding the Light to
Freedom by Shane W. Evans
2011
Text – One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Illustration – Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Illustrated by Bryan Collier (Text: Laban Carrick
Hill)
2010
Text – Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of
Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda
Micheaux Nelson
Illustration – My People Illustrated by Charles R. Smith
Jr. (Text: Langston Hughes)
2009
Text – We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League
Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Illustration – The Blacker the Berry Illustrated by
Floyd Cooper (Text: Joyce Carol Thomas)
2008
Text – Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustration – Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan
2003
Text – Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Illustration – Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator
Elizabeth Coleman Illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Text:
Nikki Grimes)
2002
Text – The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration – Goin’ Someplace Special Illustrated by Jerry
Pinkney (Text: Patricia McKissack)
2001
Text – Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
Illustration – Uptown by Bryan Collier
2000
Text – Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustration – In the Time of the Drums Illustrated by Brian
Pinkney (Text: Kim L. Siegelson)
1999
Text – Heaven by Angela Johnson
Illustration – I See the Rhythm Illustrated by Michele Wood
(Text: Toyomi Igus)
1998
Text – Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Illustration – In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African
Americans Celebrating Fathers Illustrated by Javaka
Steptoe (Text: Alan Schroeder)
1995
Text – Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the
Quarters by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Illustration – The Creation Illustrated by James
Ransome (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
1994
Text – Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Illustration – Soul Looks Back in Wonder Illustrated
by Tom Feelings (Text edited by Phyllis
Fogelman)
1993
Text – The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the
Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
Illustration – The Origin of Life on Earth: An
African Creation Myth Illustrations by
Kathleen Atkins Wilson (Text: David A.
Anderson)
1992
Text – Now Is Your Time!: The African-American
Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
1991
Text – The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration – Aida Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
(Text: Leontyne Price)
1990
Text – A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the
Pullman Porter by Patricia and Frederick
McKissack
Illustration – Nathaniel Talking Illustrated by Jan
Spivey Gilchrist (Text: Eloise Greenfield)