2011 Zora and Me, Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon John Steptoe 2010 The Rock and The River, Kekla Magoon Coretta Scott King
2009 Bird, Shadra Strickland New Talent Award 2008 Brendan Buckley’s Universe and & The first John Steptoe Award was Everything in It, Sundee T. Frazier
presented in 1995. The annual Award 2005 Missy Violet and Me, Barbara Hathaway John Steptoe was established by the Coretta Scott Jazzy Miz Mozetta, Brenda C. Roberts King Task Force to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in 1999 The Piano Man, Debbie Chocolate New Talent writing and/or illustration. The Skin I’m In, Sharon Flake Awards 2020 Award Winner 1998 No award presented.
1997 Another Way to Dance, Martha Southgate Genesis Begins Again Written by: Alicia D. Williams 1996 No award presented.
What Is Given from the Heart 1995 Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper Illustrated by: April Harrison
2019 Monday’s Not Coming, The Coretta Scott King Award was first Tiffany D. Jackson given in 1970, and is awarded annually to African American authors and Thank You, Omu!, Oge Mora illustrators for outstanding inspirational 2018 The Stars Beneath Our Feet, Deer Park Public Library and educational contributions. These David Barclay Moore 3009 Center titles promote understanding and
Mama Africa!, Charly Palmer Deer Park, TX 77536 appreciation of the culture of all 281-478-7208 peoples and their contribution to the 2017 The Sun Is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon www.deerparktx.gov/library realization of the American dream of a 2016 Voice of Freedom:Fannie Lou Hamer, pluralistic society. Ekua Holmes Hours:
Hoodoo, Ronald L. Smith Monday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
2015 When I Was The Greatest, Jason Reynolds Tuesday 10:00 am - 9:00 pm Deer Park Public Library Wednesday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 3009 Center 2014 When The Beat Was Born, Thursday 10:00 am - 9:00 pm Theodore Taylor III Deer Park, TX 77536 Friday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 2012 & 2013 No award presented. Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 281-478-7208
2016 Gone Crazy in Alabama, Rita Williams-Garcia 2003 Bronx Masquerade, Nikki Grimes 2020 Winners Trombone Shorty, illus. Bryan Collier 2002 The Land, Mildred Taylor
Author Award Winner 2015 Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson Goin’ Someplace Special, Patricia McKissack New Kid Firebird, illus. Christopher Myers 2001 Miracle’s Boys, Jacqueline Woodson Written by Jerry Craft 2014 P.S. Be Eleven, Rita Williams-Garcia 2000 Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator Award Winner Knock Knock: my dad’s dream for me, illus. 1999 Heaven, Angela Johnson The Undefeated Bryan Collier I see the Rhythm, Toyomi Igus Illustrator—Kadir Nelson 2013 Hand in Hand, Andrea D. Pinkney 1998 In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Author Honor Book I, Too, Am America, illus. Bryan Collier Celebrating Fathers, Alan Schroeder
Look Both Ways 2012 Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African- 1994 Soul Looks Back in Wonder, Phyllis Fogelman By Jason Reynolds Americans, Kadir Nelson 1993 Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, Patricia A. McKissack illus. Shane W. Evans By Junauda Petrus The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation 2011 One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia Myth, David A. Anderson Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet Slave, illus. Bryan 1992 Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold By Kwame Mbalia Collier 1991 The Road to Memphis, Mildred D. Taylor Illustrator Honor Book 2010 Bad News for Outlaws, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Aida, Leontyne Price The Bell Rang My People, illus. Charles R. Smith Illus. James E. Ransome 1990 Nathaniel Talking, Eloise Greenfield 2009 We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Infinite Hope Baseball, Kadir Nelson 1989 Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Illus. Ashley Bryan The Blacker the Berry, illus. Floyd Cooper Mirandy and Brother Wind, Patricia McKissack Sulwe 2008 Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis 1988 The Friendship, Mildred L. Taylor Illus. Vashti Harrison Let it Shine, illus. Ashley Bryan Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale, 2007 Copper Sun, Sharon Draper John Steptoe
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to 1986 The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, 2019 A Few Red Drops, Claire Hartfield Freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford Virginia Hamilton
The Stuff of Stars, illus. Ekua Holmes 2006 Day of Tears: A Novel, Julius Lester The Patchwork Quilt, Valerie Flournoy
2018 Piecing Me Together, Renee Watson Rosa, Nikki Giovanni 1982 Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred D. Taylor
Out of Wonder, illus. Ekua Holmes 2005 Remember: The Journey to School Integration, 1981 This Life, Sidney Poitier Toni Morrison 2017 March Book: Three, John Lewis 1974 Ray Charles, Sharon Bell Mathis Ellington Was Not a Street, Ntozake Shange Radiant Child, illus. Javaka Steptoe 1973 I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of 2004 The First Part Last, Angela Johnson Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson