CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARDS COMMITTEE ETHNIC AND MULTICULTURAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE ROUND TABLE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Sunday, June 23, 2019 • 7:00-9:30 a.m. Marriott Marquis Hote_l (Marquis Ballroom), Washington, D.C.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given to encourage the artistic expression of the black experience via literature and the graphic arts, including biographical, social, historical, and social history treatments. The awards honor African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to literature for children and young adults. The books selected for recognition promote an understanding and appreciation of the black culture and experience. The awards are further designed to commemorate the life and the legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination in supporting the work of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for peace and world brotherhood.
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Dr. Claudette S. Mclinn, Chair, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee; Executive Director, Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature, Inglewood, CA
Dr. Safi S. Safiullah, Chair, Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT); Manager, Marmalade Branch Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Carmen Boston, Chair, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast; Children's Librarian and Children's Services Coordinator for the District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, D.C.
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PRESIDIN G Dr Claudette S. Mclinn Chair, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee; Executive Director, Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature, Inglewood, CA
"LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING" Roderick C. Demmings Jr. Organist , First Baptist Church of Baltimore and Douglas Memorial Community Church, Baltimore, MD Accompanied by youth members of Black Music Matters, Washington, D.C. Audien ·e. please stand and joint 'Inds· lyr'cs L J ,a
INVOCATION Rev. Desire Grogan Assistant Minister, Shiloh Baptist Chu rch, Washington, D.C.
GREETINGS Loida Garcia-Febo President , American Library Association
ENJOY YOUR BREAKFAST
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Sam Bloom Awards Jury Chair, Coretta Scott King Book Awards; Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, OH
Awards Jury Jessica Anne Bratt, Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Ml Irene Briggs, Young Readers Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (retired) LaKeshia Darden, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC Jason Miles Driver Sr., Legler Regional Library of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL Dr. Sujin B.E. Huggins, Dominican University, River Forest, IL Christina Vortia, Cognizant Technology Inc., Tampa, FL
Coretta Scott King Book Awards Sponsors Special Thanks Black Caucus of the American Library Association (SCALA) ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Demeo, Inc., Madison, WI Outreach Services Britannica Digital Learning, Chicago, IL World Book, Inc., Chicago, IL c-► TIFFANY D. JACKSON Monday's Not Coming :c Published by Katherine Tegen Books, 0 :;:o an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
OGE MORA ,.... ,- Thank You, Omu! J) Published by Little, Brown Books :;:o for Young Readers, a division of Hachette Book Group ,,.... \,J :;:o LESA CLINE-RANSOME Finding Langston
Published by Holiday House
VARIAN JOHNSON The Parker Inheritance
Published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
KEKLA MAGOON The Season of Styx Malone
Published by Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
R. GREGORY CHRISTIE MEMPHIS MARTIN, AHDTll£ Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: MOUNTAINTOP The Sanitation Strike of 1968 Written by Alice Faye Duncan
Published by Calkins Crt;;ek, an imprint of Highlights
LAURA FREEMAN Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race Written by Margot Lee Shetterly
Published by HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
FRANK MORRISON Let the Children March Written by Monica Clark-Robinson
Published by HMH Books for Young Readers, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company CLAIRE HARTFIELD A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
PRESENTATION O F HO N O RA RIUM R;c1 ard Ashby Jr , President, Black Caucus of the American Library Association (SCALA) Pa Renf ow Curriculum Specialist, Britannica Digital Learning, Chicago, IL
E UA HOLMES The Stuff of Stars Written by Marion Dane Bauer Published by Candlewick Press
PRESENTATION OF HO NO RA RIUM Jaci< ·1 v Customer Intimacy Manager, Demeo Inc., Madison, WI Geoff Brode c President, World Book, Inc., Chicago, IL DR. PAULETTA BRACY Professor of Library Science and Director of the Office of University Accreditation at North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
PRESENTATION OF A WARD Deborah D. Taylor Award Jury Chair, Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement; Enoch Pratt Free Library (retired), Baltimore, MD
Award Jury Therese G. Bigelow, Coupeville, WA Patricia Ann Carleton, Saint Louis Public Library (retired), Saint Louis, MO Dr. Rosalie B. Kiah, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA Ida W. Thompson, Richland Library, Columbia, CA
CLOSING REMA RKS Dr. Claudette S. Mclinn Chair, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee; Executive Director, Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature, Inglewood, CA Coretta Scott King at the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast on June 29, 1993, in New Orleans OIYOIOIINOAI S FIFTY YEARS STRONG
••• The Coretta Scott King Book Award was established by Glyndon Flynt Greer, a school librarian in Englewood, NJ; Mabel McKissick, a school librarian in New London, CT; and John Carroll, a book publisher.
• I The inaugural Coretta Scott King Book Award was presented to Lillie Patterson for her book Martin Luther King, Jr: Man of Peace at the New Jersey Library Association Annual Spring Conference in Atlantic City.
The first Coretta Scott King Book Award Breakfast was held at an American Library Association conference. The award was not recognized as part of the ALA awards at this time.
The first Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award was presented to George Ford for his illustrations in Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis. Ms. Mathis won the author award. This was the first time the author and illustrator awards were given to the same book.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards seal was designed by the internationally known Atlanta based artist Lev Mills. • • The Coretta Scott King Book Awards became official American Library Association awards . • • The Coretta Scott King Task Force voted to recognize the works of new authors and illustrators who demonstrated promise. Originally named the Genesis Award, the new award was first given to Sharon M. Draper for her book Tears of a Tiger.
The Genesis Award was officially renamed the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent to honor the late Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner John Steptoe. The two awards recognize and encourage the talent of an author and illustrator early in their career.
In appreciation and remembrance of the late Virginia Hamilton, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement was established. In even years, the award is presented to an African American author or illustrator who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution. The first recipient was Walter Dean Myers. In odd years, the award is presented to a practitioner for substantial contributions through active engagement with youth through reading and reading-related activities using award-winning African American literature. Dr. Henrietta M. Smith was the first recipient of the practitioner award.
The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (NCCIL) debuted a traveling exhibition, Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards, featuring the artwork of both winners and honorees, at its gallery in Abilene, Texas. Dr. Claudette S. Mclinn, chair of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee, conducted a workshop on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards. This prestigious exhibit is scheduled to travel to several locations, including the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, through 2020. www.nccil.org
Under the leadership of Dr. Claudette S. Mclinn, the fiftieth anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards was celebrated with a gala at the Library of Congress and the annual awards breakfast at the American Library Association Conference in Washington, D.C. Andrea Davis Pinkney served as honorary chair of the fiftieth anniversary celebration. WINNERS 1970-PRESENT
AUTHOR , Lillie Patterson, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace
AUTHOR , Charlemae H. Rollins Black Troubador: Langston Hughes
AUTHOR • Elton C. Fax, 17 Black Artists
AUTHOR , Jackie Robinson and A fred Duckett, I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
AUTHOR • Sharon Bell Math s Ray Charles ILLUSTRATOR • George Ford Ray Charles
AUTHOR , Dorothy W. Robinson, The Legend of Africania
AUTHOR • Pearl Bailey Duey's Tale
AUTHOR , James Haskins, The Story of Stevie Wonder
AUTHOR , Eloise Greenfie d Africa Dream ILLUSTRATOR • Carole Byard Africa Dream
AUTHOR • Ossie Davis, Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass ILLUSTRATOR • Tom Feelings Something on My Mind
AUTHOR , Walter Dean Myers The Young Landlords ILLUSTRATOR , Carole Byard Cornrows
••• AUTHOR • Sidney Poitier This Life ILLUSTRATOR • Ashley Bryan Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
AUTHOR , Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken ILLUSTRATOR • John Steptoe Mother Crocodile
AUTHOR , Virginia Hamilton Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush ILLUSTRATOR • Peter Magubane Black Child . AUTHOR , Lucille Clifton, Everett Anderson's Goodbye ILLUSTRATOR , Pat Cummings, My Mama Needs Me
AUTHOR , Walter Dean Myers, Motown and Didi
AUTHOR , Virginia Hamilton, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales ILLUSTRATOR , Jerry Pinkney, The Patchwork Quilt
AUTHOR , Mildred Pitts Walter, Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World ILLUSTRATOR , Jerry Pinkney, Half a Moon and One Whole Star
AUTHOR , Mildred D. Taylor, The Friendship ILLUSTRATOR, John Steptoe, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
AUTHOR , Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels ILLUSTRATOR , Jerry Pinkney, Mirandy and Brother Wind
AUTHOR , Patricia C. Mc Kissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter ILLUSTRATOR • Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Nathaniel Talking
•• AUTHOR, Mildred D. Taylor, The Road to Memphis ILLUSTRATOR, Leo and Diane Dillon, Ai'da
AUTHOR , Walter Dean Myers, Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom ILLUSTRATOR • Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach
AUTHOR, Patricia C. McKissack, The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural ILLUSTRATOR , Kathleen Atkins Wilson, The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth
AUTHOR , Angela Johnson, Toning the Sweep ILLUSTRATOR , Tom Feelings, Soul Looks Back in Wonder
AUTHOR, Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters ILLUSTRATOR , James E. Ransome, The Creation JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT, Sharon M. Draper, author of Tears of a Tiger ••• AUTHOR • Virginia Hamilton, Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales ILLUSTRATOR • Tom Feelings, The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo
•• AUTHOR • Walter Dean Myers, Slam! ILLUSTRATOR • Jerry Pinkney, Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT • Martha Southgate, author of Another Way to Dance
AUTHOR • Sharon M. Draper, Forged by Fire ILLUSTRATOR• Javaka Steptoe, In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
••• AUTHOR • Angela Johnson, Heaven ILLUSTRATOR • Michele Wood, I See the Rhythm JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT • Sharon G. Flake, author of The Skin I'm In; Eric Velasquez, illustrator of The Piano Man
AUTHOR • Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy ILLUSTRATOR • Brian Pinkney, In the Time of the Drums
II AUTHOR• Jacqueline Woodson, Miracle's Boys ILLUSTRATOR • Bryan Collier, Uptown
AUTHOR • Mildred D. Taylor, The Land ILLUSTRATOR • Jerry Pinkney, Goin' Someplace Special JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT • Jerome Lagarrigue, illustrator of Freedom Summer
AUTHOR • Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade ILLUSTRATOR• E. B. Lewis, Ta/kin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT • Janet McDonald, author of Chill Wind; Randy DuBurke, illustrator of The Moon Ring
AUTHOR • Angela Johnson, The First Part Last ILLUSTRATOR • Ashley Bryan, Beautiful Blackbird JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT • Hope Anita Smith, author of The Way a Door Closes
AUTHOR • Toni Morrison, Remember: The Journey to School Integration ILLUSTRATOR • Kadir Nelson, Ellington Was Not a Street JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT • Barbara Hathaway, author of Missy Violet and Me; Frank Morrison, illustrator of Jazzy Miz Mozetta
AUTHOR , Julius Lester, Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue ILLUSTRATOR • Bryan Collier, Rosa JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT• Jaime Adoff, author of Jimi & Me
II AUTHOR, Sharon M. Draper, Copper Sun ILLUSTRATOR , Kadir Nelson, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Traci L. Jones, author of Standing Against the Wind
AUTHOR , Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton ILLUSTRATOR , Ashley Bryan, Let it Shine JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Sundee T. Frazier, author of Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
AUTHOR , Kadir Nelson, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball ILLUSTRATOR , Floyd Cooper, The Blacker the Berry JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Shadra Strickland, illustrator of Bird
AUTHOR • Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal ILLUSTRATOR , Charles R. Smith Jr., My People JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Kekla Magoon, author of The Rock and the River VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT ' Walter Dean Myers
AUTHOR , Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer ILLUSTRATOR , Bryan Collier, Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT• Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, authors of Zora and Me; Sonia Lynn Sadler, illustrator of Seeds of Change
VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT l Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith
AUTHOR • Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans ILLUSTRATOR , Shane W. Evans, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT. Ashley Bryan
AUTHOR • Andrea Davis Pinkney, Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America ILLUSTRATOR , Bryan Collier, I, Too, Am America VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT, Demetria Tucker AUTHOR , Rita Williams-Garcia, P.S. Be Eleven ILLUSTRATOR , Bryan Collier Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Theodore Taylor Ill, illustrator of When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT ' Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
AUTHOR , Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming ILLUSTRATOR ' Christopher Myers, Firebird JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Jason Reynolds author of When I Was the Greatest VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT ' Deborah D. Taylor
AUTHOR , Rita Williams-Garcia, Gone Crazy in Alabama ILLUSTRATOR , Bryan Collier, Trombone Shorty JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Ronald L Sm'th, author of Hoodoo; Ekua Holmes, illustrator of Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT' Jerry Pinkney
AUTHOR , John Lewis and Andrew Ayd n, March: Book Three ILLUSTRATOR, Javaka Steptoe, Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Nicola Yoon , author of The Sun Is Also a Star VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT, Dr. Rudlne Sims Bishop
AUTHOR , Renee Watson, Piecing Me Together ILLUSTRATOR , Ekua Holmes Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Dav cl Barclay Moore, author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet; Charly Palmer, illustrator of Mama Africa! How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT' Eloise Greenfield
AUTHOR , Claire Hartfield, A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 ILLUSTRATOR , Ekua Ho me The Stuff of Stars JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT , Tiffany D. Jackson, author of Monday's Not Coming; 01e Mora illustrator of Thank You, Omu! VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT ' Dr. Pauletta Bracy
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift ev'ry voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast'ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land.
"L ft fvery Vo1 e nrd Sing was written by the noted Afr can American poet and c v I • ghts leader Jarres WeldOI' John!;on. T'le song 1s often •eferred to as the African Amer car Nat,oral Ant ew.