Coretta Scott King Author Award Winners and Honor Books
     
  TITLE AUTHOR ANNOTATION GRADE LEVEL Misc. CALL NO. PUBLISHER Reccomemded by Genre
17 Black Artists Elton C. Fax Dodd 1972 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
A Little Love Virginia Hamilton Philomel 1985 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Walker 1990 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
A Thief in the Village and Other Stories James Berry Orchard 1989 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Africa Dream Eloise Greenfield illustated by Carole Bayard Crowell 1978 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner & 1978 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Aida Leontyne Price illustated by Leo and Diane Dillon Harcourt 1991 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African American Spirituals Ashley Bryan Atheneum 1992 Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
All the Colors of the Race Arnold Adoff illustated by John Steptoe Lothrop 1983 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
An Enchanted Hair Tale Alexis De Veaux Harper 1988 Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission James Haskins Lothrop 1980 Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Virginia Hamilton Knopf 1989 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry Ashley Bryan Jean Karl/Atheneum 1998 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Barbara Jordan James Haskins Dial 1978 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement James Haskins Hyperion 1998 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum Ashley Bryan Atheneum 1981 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Because We Are Mildred Pitts Walter 1984 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Benjamin Banneker Lillie Patterson Abingdon 1979 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Black Cat Christopher Myers Scholastic 2000 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Black Child Peter Mugabane Knopf 1983 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Black Dance in America James Haskins Crowell 1991 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Scholastic, Inc. 1995 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack Scholastic Press 2000 Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes Charlemae Rollins Rand McNally 1971 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan Henry Holt and Company 1999 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Bright Shadow Joyce Carol Thomas Avon 1984 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea Joyce Carol Thomas illustated by Floyd Cooper HarperCollins 1994 Coretta Scott King Author Honor & 1994 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Delacorte 2000 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
C.L.O.U.D.S. Pat Cummings Lothrop 1987 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little Harper 1980 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Scholastic, Inc. 1995 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Circle of Gold Candy Dawson Boyd Apple/Scholastic 1985 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Coretta Scott King Lillie Patterson Garrard 1978 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Cornrows Camille Yarborough illustated by Carole Byard Coward-McCann 1980 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Count on Your Fingers African Style Claudia Zaslavsky illustated by Jerry Pinkney Crowell 1981 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Patricia A. McKissack Knopf 1993 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Daydreamers Eloise Greenfield illustated by Tom Feelings Dial 1982 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday Alexis De Veaux Harper 1981 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Duey's Tale Pearl Bailey Harcourt 1976 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra Andrea Davis Pinkney illustated by Brian Pinkney Hyperion Books for Children 1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Escape to Freedom Ossie Davis Viking 1979 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Everett Anderson's Good-bye Lucille Clifton Holt 1984 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers Scholastic 1989 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Forged by Fire Sharon M. Draper Atheneum 1998 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Francie Karen English Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000 Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King Author Honor
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Jacqueline Woodson Scholastic/Blue Sky Press 1996 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Grandmama's Joy Eloise Greenfield illustated by Carole Byard Collins 1981 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Half a Moon and One Whole Star Crescent Dragonwagon illustated by Jerry Pinkney 1987 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Harlem Walter Dean Myers Scholastic, Inc 1998 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Heaven Angela Johnson Simon & Schuster 1999 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Her Stories Virginia Hamilton illustated by Leo and Diane Dillon Scholastic/Blue Sky Press 1996 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Her Stories Virginia Hamilton Scholastic/Blue Sky Press 1996 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This Jacqueline Woodson Delacorte 1995 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf Jeanne W. Peterson Harper 1979 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
I Have Heard of a Land Joyce Carol Thomas illustated by Floyd Cooper Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins 1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett Alfred Duckett Putnam 1973 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
i see the rhythm Toyomi Igus illustated by Michele Wood 1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl Joyce Hansen Scholastic, Inc. 1998 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals Ashley Bryan illustated by Ashley Bryan Atheneum 1983 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers Walter Dean Myers illustated by Javaka Steptoe Scholastic, Inc 1998 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
In the Time of the Drums Kim L. Siegelson illustated by Brian Pinkney Hyperion 2000 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man James Haskins Dodd 1980 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Jazmin's Notebook Nikki Grimes Dial Books 1999 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Junius Over Far Virginia Hamilton Harper 1986 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Just Us Women Jeanette Caines illustated by Pat Cummings Harper 1983 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Justice and Her Brothers Virginia Hamilton Greenwillow 1979 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Mildred Pitts Walter Lothrop 1987 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Lena Horne James Haskins Coward-McCann 1984 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Let the Circle Be Unbroken Mildred D. Taylor Dial 1982 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Let the Lion Eat Straw Ellease Southerland Scribner 1980 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Williams-Garcia Delacorte 1996 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales Ashley Bryan Atheneum 1987 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales Ashley Bryan Atheneum 1987 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Little Eight John an Wahl illustated by Wil Clay Lodestar 1993 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Lou in the Limelight Kristin Hunter Scribner 1982 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary  Walter Dean Myers Scholastic 1994 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement Lillie Patterson Facts on File 1990 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace  Lillie Patterson Garrard 1970 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Marvin and Tige Frankcina Glass St. Martin's 1978 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Mary McCleod Bethune Eloise Greenfield Crowell 1978 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Mary: An Autobiography Mary E. Mebane Viking 1982 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Meet Danitra Brown Nikki Grimes illustated by Floyd Cooper 1995 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman illustration Jerry Pinkney; text 1997 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Mirandy and Brother Wind Patricia McKissack illustated by Jerry Pinkney Knopf 1989 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Mississippi Challenge Mildred Pitts Walter Bradbury 1993 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Monster Walter Dean Myers HarperCollins 2000 Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal Rosa Guy illustated by John Steptoe Delacorte 1982 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Motown and Didi Walter Dean Myers Viking 1985 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Movin' Up Berry Gordy Harper 1980 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale John Steptoe Lothrop 1988 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
My Mama Needs Me Mildred Pitts Walter illustated by Pat Cummings 1984 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa M. Mollel illustated by E. B. Lewis Clarion Books 2000 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Nathaniel Talking Eloise Greenfield illustated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist Black Butterfly 1990 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Nathaniel Talking Eloise Greenfield ll. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist Black Butterfly 1990 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going Karen English illustated by Synthia Saint James 1997 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Night on Neighborhood Street Eloise Greenfield illustated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist Dial 1992 Coretta Scott King Author Honor & 1992 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom Walter Dean Myers HarperCollins 1992 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington Ruth Ann Stewart Doubleday 1978 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Rainbow Jordan Alice Childress Coward-McCann 1982 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Ray Charles Sharon Bell Mathis; illustration 1974 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner & 1974 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Scholastic, Inc. 1997 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Running The Road To ABC Denize Lauture illustated by Reynold Ruffins 1997 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Skates of Uncle Richard Carol Fenner Random 1979 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Slam Walter Dean Myers Scholastic 1997 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack Scholastic 1993 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Something on My Mind Nikki Grimes illustated by Tom Feelings Dial 1979 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Somewhere in the Darkness Walter Dean Myers Scholastic 1993 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Soul Looks Back in Wonder Phyllis Fogelman illustated by Tom Feelings Fogelman (Dial Books 1994 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Storm in the Night Mary Stolz illustated by Pat Cummings 1989 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Sukey and the Mermaid Robert San Souci illustated by Brian Pinkney Four Winds 1993 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton Philomel 1983 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Tar Beach Faith Ringgold Crown 1992 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The Bat Boy and His Violin Gavin Curtis illustated by E.B. Lewis 1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Bells of Christmas Virginia Hamilton Harcourt 1990 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Captive Joyce Hansen Scholastic 1995 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Creation James Ransome; text illustated by James Ransome 1995 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be William J. Faulkner Follett 1978 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Faithful Friend Robert San Souci illustated by Brian Pinkney Simon & Schuster 1996 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Friendship Mildred L. Taylor Dial 1988 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
The Hunterman and the Crocodile Baba Wagué Diakité Scholastic, Inc. 1998 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua Harriet Rohmer, compiled by illustated by Joe Sam Children's Press 1988 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Legend of Africana Dorothy Robinson Johnson Publishing 1975 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl Virginia Hamilton Harper 1984 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo Tom Feelings Dial Books for Young Readers 1996 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth David A. Anderson, retold by illustated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson Sights 1993 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The Other Side: Shorter Poems Angela Johnson Orchard Books 1999 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children Davida Adedjouma illustated by Gregorie Christie Lee & Low Books Inc. 1997 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Patchwork Quilt Jerry Pinkney; text 1986 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton illustated by Leo and Diane Dillon Knopf 1986 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner & 1986 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Road to Memphis Mildred D. Taylor Dial 1991 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
The Singing Man Angela Shelf Medearis illustated by Terea Shaffer 1995 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The Story of Stevie Wonder James Haskins Lothrop 1977 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit Julius Lester Dial 1988 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Talking Eggs Robert San Souci illustated by Jerry Pinkney 1990 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963  Christopher Paul Curtis Delacorte 1996 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King, compiler Newmarket 1984 Coretta Scott King Special Citation:
The Young Landlords Walter Dean Myers Viking 1980 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
This Life Sidney Poitier Knopf 1981 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
This Strange New Feeling Julius Lester Dial 1983 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Toning the Sweep Angela Johnson Orchard 1994 Author Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Trouble's Child Mildred Pitts Walter Lothrop 1986 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Uncle Jed's Barbershop Margaree King Mitchell illustated by James Ransome Simon & Schuster 1994 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Under the Sunday Tree Eloise Greenfield illustated by Amos Ferguson 1989 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals John Langstaff, selected by illustated by Ashley Bryan Macmillan 1988 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
When I Am Old With You Angela Johnson Orchard 1991 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Which Way Freedom Joyce Hansen Walker 1987 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Working Cotton Sherley Anne Williams illustated by Carole Byard Harcourt 1993 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
1992 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor