Scotch Plains Public Library Children's Department Coretta Scott King Award Updated 01/2017 the Winning Author and Illustrator
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Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Coretta Scott King Award The winning author and illustrator for each year are listed in bold, followed by the honor awarded authors and illustrators. If SPPL owns the book, the location can be found on the right hand side. 2017 Author John Lewis and Andrew Aydin – March: Book Three G B LEWIS Jason Reynolds – As Brave as You J REY Ashley Bryan – Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life J BRY Illustrator Javaka Steptoe - Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat J B BAS R. Gregory Christie – Freedom in Congo Square text: Carole Boston Weatherford J 976.335 WEA Ashely Bryan – Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life J BRY Jerry Pickney – In Plain Sight text: Richard Jackson P JAC 2016 Author Rita Williams-Garcia – Gone Crazy in Alabama J WIL Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely – All American Boys YA REY Jason Reynolds – The Boy in the Black Suit YA REY Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon – X: A Novel YA SHA Illustrator Bryan Collier – Trombone Shorty text: Troy Andrews J B AND R. Gregory Christie – The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore text: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson P NEL Christian Robinson – Last Stop on Market Street text: Matt de la Peña P DEL 2015 Author Jacqueline Woodson – Brown Girl Dreaming J B WOO Kwame Alexander – The Crossover J ALE Marilyn Nelson – How I Discovered Poetry J 811.54 NEL Kekla Magoon – How It Went Down YA MAG Illustrator Christopher Myers – Firebird text: Misty Copeland P COP Christian Robinson – Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker text: Patricia Hruby Powell J B BAK Frank Morrison – Little Melba and Her Big Trombone text: Katheryn Russell-Brown J B LIS 2014 Author Rita Williams – Garcia – P.S. Be Eleven J WIL John Lewis and Andrew Aydin – March: Book One G 323.0973 LEW Walter Dean Myers – Darius & Twig YA MYE Nikki Grimes – Words with Wings J GRI Updated 01/2017 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Coretta Scott King Award Illustrator Bryan Collier – Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me text: Daniel Beaty P BEA Kadir Nelson – Nelson Mandela J B MAN 2013 Author Andrea Davis Pinkney - Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men who Changed America J 973.0496 PIN Jacqueline Woodson – Each Kindness illustrated: E.B. Lewis P WOO Vaunda Michaeux Nelson – No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller illustrated: R. Gregory Christie Illustrator Bryan Collier – I, Too, Am America text: Langston Hughes J 811.52 HUG Christopher Myers – H.O.R.S.E: a game of basketball and imagination P MYE Kadir Nelson – I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. text: Martin Luther King Jr. J 323.092 KIN 2012 Author Kadir Nelson – Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans J 973.0496 NEL Eloise Greenfield – The Great Migration: Journey to the North illustrated: Jan Spivey Gilchrist J 811.54 GRE Patricia C. McKissack – Never Forgotten illustrated: Leo and Diane Dillon J MCK Illustrator Shane W. Evans – Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom J 973.7115 EVA Kadir Nelson – Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans J 973.0496 NEL 2011 Author Rita Williams-Garcia – One Crazy Summer J WIL Walter Dean Myers – Lockdown YA MYE Jewell Parker Rhodes - Ninth Ward YA RHO G. Neri – Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty illustrated: Randy DuBurke Illustrator Bryan Collier – Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave text: Laban Carrick Hall J 738.092 HIL Javaka Steptoe – Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix Text: Gary Golio J B HEN 2010 Author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson – Bad News for Outlaws illustrated: R. Gregory Christie J B REE Tanita S. Davis – Mare’s War YA DAV Illustrator Charles R. Smith Jr. – My People text: Langston Hughes J 811.52 HUG E.B. Lewis – The Negro Speaks of Rivers text: Langston Hughes 2009 Author Updated 01/2017 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Coretta Scott King Award Kadir Nelson – We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro Baseball J 796.3576 NEL Hope Anita Smith – Keeping the Night Watch J SMI Joyce Carol Thomas – The Blacker the Berry illustrated: Floyd Cooper Carole Boston Weatherford – Becoming Billie Holiday YA WEA Illustrator Floyd Cooper – The Blacker the Berry text: Joyce Carol Thomas Kadir Nelson – We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro Baseball J 796.3576 NEL Jerry Pinkney – The Moon Over Star text: Diana Hutts Aston P AST Sean Qualls – Before John Was a Jazz Giant text: Carole Boston Weatherford P WEA 2008 Author Christopher Paul Curtis – Elijah of Buxton J CUR Sharon M. Draper – November Blues YA DRA Charles R. Smith Jr. – Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali J B ALI Illustrator Ashley Bryan – Let it Shine J 782.253 LET Nancy Devard – The Secret Olivia Told Me text: N. Joy Leo and Diane Dillon – Jazz On a Saturday Night P DIL 2007 Author Sharon Draper – Copper Sun YA DRA Nikki Grimes – The Road to Paris Illustrator Kadir Nelson – Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom text: Carole Boston Weatherford P WEA Christopher Myers – Jazz text: Walter Dean Myers P MYE Benny Andrews – Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes J 811.52 HUG 2006 Author Julius Lester – Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue YA LES Tonya Bolden – Maritcha: A Nineteenth- Century American Girl J B LYO Nikki Grimes – Dark Sons Marilyn Nelson- A Wreath for Emmett Till illustrated: Philippe Lardy J 811.54 NEL Illustrator Bryan Collier- Rosa text: Nikki Giovanni J 323.092 GIO R. Gregory Christie – Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan text: Mary Williams 2005 Author Toni Morrison – Remember: The Journey to School Integration J 379.263 MOR Shelia P. Moses – The Legend of Buddy Bush YA MOS Sharon G. Flake – Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories Girls and the Boys in Their Lives YA FLE Updated 01/2017 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Coretta Scott King Award Marilyn Nelson – Fortune’s Bones: The Manumisson Requiem J 811.54 NEL Illustrator Kadir A. Nelson – Ellington Was Not a Street text: Ntozake Shange J 811.54 SHA Jerry Pinkney – God Bless the Child text: Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. Leo and Diane Dillon – The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales text: Virginia Hamilton J 398.2097 HAM 2004 Author Angela Johnson – The First Part Last YA JOH Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack – Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States J 973.7 MCK Jacqueline Woodson – Locomotion J 811 WOO Sharon Draper – The Battle of Jericho YA DRA Illustrator Ashley Bryan – Beautiful Blackbird J 398.2096 BRY Colin Bootman – Almost to Freedom text: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Kadir Nelson – Thunder Rose text: Jerdine Nolen P NOL 2003 Author Nikki Grimes – Bronx Masquerade YA GRIMES Brenda Woods – The Red Rose Box Nikki Grimes – Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman illustrated: E.B. Lewis EB COL Illustrator E.B. Lewis - Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman text: Nikki Grimes EB COL Leo and Diane Dillon – Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles- Think of That P DIL Bryan Collier – Visiting Langston text: Willie Perdomo 2002 Author Mildred Taylor – The Land Sharon G. Flake – Money-Hungry Marilyn Nelson – Carver: A Life in Poems 811.54 NEL and YA 811.54 NEL Illustrator Jerry Pinkney – Goin’ Someplace Special text: Patricia McKissack Bryan Collier Martin’s Big Words text: Doreen Rappaport J 323.092 RAP 2001 Author Jacqueline Woodson – Miracle’s Boys J WOO Andrea Davis Pinkney – Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters illustrated: Stephen Alcom J 323.092 PIN Illustrator Bryan Collier – Uptown Bryan Collier – Freedom River text: Doreen Rapport J RAP Updated 01/2017 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Coretta Scott King Award R. Gregory Christie – Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth text: Anne F. Rockwell E B TRU E.B. Lewis – Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys text: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard P HOW 2000 Author Christopher Paul Curtis – Bud, Not Buddy J CUR Karen English – Francie J ENG Patricia C. and Frederick McKissack – Black Hands, White Sails: The story of African-American whalers J 639.28 MCK Walter Dean Myers – Monster YA MYERS Illustrator Brian Pinkney – In the Time of Drums text: Kim L. Siegelson J SIE E.B. Lewis – My Rows and Piles of Coins text: Tololwa M. Mollel P MOL Christopher Myers – Black Cat P MYE 1999 Author Angela Johnson – Heaven Nikki Grimes - Jazmin’s Notebook Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan – Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence Angela Johnson – The Other Side: Shorter Poems Illustrator Michelle Wood – I See the Rhythm text: Toyomi Igus Floyd Cooper – I Have Heard of a Land text: Joyce Carol Thomas E.B. Lewis – The Bat Boy and his Violin text: Gavin Curtis Brian Pinkney – Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra text: Andrea Davis Pinkney J B ELL 1998 Author Sharon M. Draper – Forged by Fire J DRA James Haskins – Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement J B RUS Joyce Hansen – I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl J DEA Illustrator Javaka Steptoe – In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers text: Alan Schroeder J 811.008 IN Ashley Bryan – Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry Christopher Myers – Harlem: a poem text: Walter Dean Myers J 811 MYE Baba Wague Diakite – The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale P DIA 1997 Author Walter Dean Myers – Slam YA MYE Patricia C.