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Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and Honor Books by Title

Africa Dream, illus. by . Winner, 1978. Aïda, illus. by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon. Winner, 1991. All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals, illus. by . Honor, 1992. All the Colors of the Race, illus. by John Steptoe. Honor, 1983. Almost to Freedom, illus. by Colin Bootman. Honor, 2004. Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry, illus. by Ashley Bryan. Honor, 1998. The Bat Boy and His Violin, illus. by E. B. Lewis. Honor, 1999. Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum, illus. by Ashley Bryan. Winner, 1981. Beautiful Blackbird, illus. by Ashley Bryan. Winner, 2004. Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane, illus. by Sean Qualls. Honor, 2009. Bird, illus. by Shadra Strickland. New Talent, 2009. Black Cat, illus. by Christopher Myers. Honor, 2000. Black Child, illus. by Peter Magubane. Winner, 1983. The Blacker the Berry: Poems, illus. by Floyd Cooper. Winner, 2009. Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Honor, 2006. Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, illus. by Floyd Cooper. Honor, 1994. C.L.O.U.D.S., illus. by Pat Cummings. Honor, 1987. Cornrows, illus. by Carole Byard. Winner, 1980. Count on Your Fingers African Style, illus. by . Honor, 1981. The Creation, illus. by James E. Ransome. Winner, 1995. Daydreamers, illus. by . Honor, 1982. Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Honor, 1999. Ellington Was Not a Street, illus. by Kadir Nelson. Winner, 2005. The Faithful Friend, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Honor, 1996. Freedom River, illus. by Bryan Collier. Honor, 2001. Freedom Summer, illus. by Jerome Lagarrigue. New Talent, 2002. God Bless the Child, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Honor, 2005. Goin’ Someplace Special, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Winner, 2002. Grandma’s Joy, illus. by Carole Byard. Honor, 1981. Half a Moon and One Whole Star, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Winner, 1987. , illus. by Christopher Myers. Honor, 1998. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales, illus. by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon. Honor, 1996. The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale, illus. by Baba Wagué Diakité. Honor, 1998. I Have Heard of a Land, illus. by Floyd Cooper. Honor, 1999. I See the Rhythm, illus. by Michele Wood. Winner, 1999. I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, illus. by Ashley Bryan. Honor, 1983. In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: Celebrating Fathers, illus. by Javaka Steptoe. Winner, 1998.

From The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970–2009, 4th ed., edited by Henrietta M. Smith (Chicago: American Library Association, 2009).

1 In the Time of the Drums, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Winner, 2000. The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, illus. by The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Kathleen Atkins Wilson. Winner, 1993. Nicaragua / Los Cazadores Invisibles: Una Leyenda de los The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, illus. Indios Miskitos de Nicaragua, illus. by JoeSam. Honor, by R. Gregory Christie. Honor, 1997. 1988. The Patchwork Quilt, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Winner, 1986. Jazz, illus. by Christopher Myers. Honor, 2007. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illus. by Leo Jazz on a Saturday Night, illus. by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon and Diane Dillon. Honor, 1986. Dillon. Honor, 2008. The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, illus. by Leo Dillon and Jazzy Miz Mozetta, illus. by Frank Morrison. New Talent, 2005. Diane Dillon. Honor, 2005. Just Us Women, illus. by Pat Cummings. Honor, 1983. The Piano Man, illus. by Eric Velasquez. New Talent, 1999. , illus. by Benny Andrews. Honor, 2007. Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That! illus. by Leo Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals, illus. by Ashley Bryan. Dillon and Diane Dillon. Honor, 2003. Winner, 2008. Ray Charles, illus. by George Ford. Winner, 1974. Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales, illus. by Rosa, illus. by Bryan Collier. Winner, 2006. Ashley Bryan. Honor, 1987. Running the Road to ABC, illus. by Reynold Ruffins. Honor, Little Eight John, illus. by Wil Clay. Honor, 1993. 1997. Mama Crocodile / Maman-Caiman, illus. by John Steptoe. The Secret Olivia Told Me, illus. by Nancy Devard. Honor, Winner, 1982. 2008. Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., illus. The Singing Man, illus. by Terea Shaffer. Honor, 1995. by Bryan Collier. Honor, 2002. Something’s on My Mind, illus. by Tom Feelings. Winner, 1979. Meet Danitra Brown, illus. by Floyd Cooper. Honor, 1995. Soul Looks Back in Wonder, illus. by Tom Feelings. Winner, The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo, illus. by Tom 1994. Feelings. Winner, 1996. Storm in the Night, illus. by Pat Cummings. Honor, 1989. Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Sukey and the Mermaid, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Honor, 1993. Winner, 1997. Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illus. Mirandy and Brother Wind, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Winner, 1989. by E. B. Lewis. Winner, 2003. The Moon over Star, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Honor, 2009. The Talking Eggs, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Honor, 1990. The Moon Ring, illus. by Randy DuBurke. New Talent, 2003. Tar Beach, illus. by . Winner, 1992. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illus. Thunder Rose, illus. by Kadir Nelson. Honor, 2004. by Kadir Nelson. Winner, 2007. Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, illus. by James E. Ransome. Honor, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale, illus. by John 1994. Steptoe. Winner, 1988. Under the Sunday Tree, illus. by Mr. Amos Ferguson. Honor, My Family Plays Music, illus. by Elbrite Brown. New Talent, 2004. 1989. My Mama Needs Me, illus. by Pat Cummings. Winner, 1984. Uptown, illus. by Bryan Collier. Winner, 2001. My Rows and Piles of Coins, illus. by E. B. Lewis. Honor, 2000. Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, illus. by E. B. Lewis. Honor, Nathaniel Talking, illus. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. Winner, 1990. 2001. Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, illus. by Synthia Saint James. Visiting Langston, illus. by Bryan Collier. Honor, 2003. Honor, 1997. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, illus. by Night on Neighborhood Street, illus. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. Kadir Nelson. Honor, 2009. Honor, 1992. What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, illus. Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth, illus. by by Ashley Bryan. Honor, 1988. R. Gregory Christie. Honor, 2001. Working Cotton, illus. by Carole Byard. Honor, 1993.

From The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970–2009, 4th ed., edited by Henrietta M. Smith (Chicago: American Library Association, 2009).

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