Coretta Scott King Awards -- 1980 to present
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Year	Award	Given to	Title	Author
2003	Winner	Author	Bronx Masquerede	Grimes, Nikki
2003	New Talent	Author	Chill Wind	McDonald, Janet
2003	New Talent	Author	Moon Ring, The	DuBurke, Randy
2003	Honor Book	Illustrator	Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles -- Think of That!	Dillon, Leo & Diane
2003	Honor Book	Author	Red Rose Box, The	Woods, Brenda
2003	Honor Book	Author	Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman	Lewis, E.B.
2003	Winner	Illustrator	Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman	Lewis, E.B.
2003	Honor Book	Illustrator	Visiting Langston	Collier, Bryan
2002	Honor Book	Author	Carver: A Life in Poems	Nelson, Marilyn
2002	Winner	Author	Land, The	Taylor, Mildred D.
2002	Honor Book	Author	Money Hungry	Flake, Sharon G.
2001	Honor Book	Author	Let It Shine: The Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters	Pinkney, Andrea Davis
2001	Winner	Author	Miracle's Boys	Woodson, Jacqueline
2000	Honor Book	Author	Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers	McKissack, Patricia C.
2000	Winner	Author	Bud, Not Buddy	Curtis, Christopher Paul
2000	Honor Book	Author	Francie	English, Karen
2000	Honor Book	Author	Monster	Myers, Walter Dean
1999	Honor Book	Author	Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground	Hanson, Joyce
1999	Winner	Author	Heaven	Johnson, Angela
1999	Honor Book	Author	Jazmin's Notebook	Grimes, Nikki
1999	Honor Book	Author	The Other Side: Shorter Pieces	Johnson, Angela
1998	Honor Book	Author	Bayard Rustin: Mr. Organizer	Haskins, James
1998	Winner	Author	Forged by Fire	Draper, Sharon Mills
1998	Honor Book	Author	I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865	Hansen, Joyce
1997	Honor Book	Author	Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts	McKissack, Patricia C.
1997	Winner	Author	Slam!	Myers, Walter Dean
1996	Honor Book	Author	From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun	Woodson, Jacqueline
1996	Winner	Author	Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales	Hamilton, Virginia
1996	Honor Book	Author	Like Sisters on the Homefront	Williams-Garcia, Rita
1996	Honor Book	Author	The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963	Curtis, Christopher Paul
1995	Honor Book	Author	Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues	McKissack, Patricia C.
1995	Honor Book	Author	The Captive	Hansen, Joyce
1995	Winner	Author	Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters	McKissack, Patricia C.
1995	Honor Book	Author	I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This	Woodson, Jacqueline
1994	Winner	Author	Toning the Sweep	Johnson, Angela
1993	Winner	Author	The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural	McKissack, Patricia C.
1992	Winner	Author	Now is Your Time: The African-American Struggle for Freedom	Myers, Walter Dean
1991	Winner	Author	The Road to Memphis	Taylor, Mildred D.
1990	Winner	Author	Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter	McKissack, Patricia C.
1989	Winner	Author	Fallen Angels	Myers, Walter Dean
1988	Winner	Author	The Friendship	Taylor, Mildred D.
1987	Winner	Author	Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World	Walter, Mildred Pitts
1986	Winner	Author	The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales	Hamilton, Virginia
1985	Winner	Author	Motown and Didi	Myers, Walter Dean
1984	Winner	Author	Everett Anderson's Goodbye	Clifton, Lucille
1983	Winner	Author	Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush	Hamilton, Virginia
1982	Winner	Author	Let the Circle Be Unbroken	Taylor, Mildred D.
1981	Winner	Author	This Life	Poitier, Sidney
1980	Winner	Author	The Young Landlords	Myers, Walter Dean
1979	Winner	Author	Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass	Davis, Ossie
2002	Winner	Illustrator	Goin' Someplace Special	McKissack, Patricia C.
2002	Honor Book	Illustrator	Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.	Rappaport, Doreen
2001	Honor Book	Illustrator	Freedom River	Rappaport, Doreen
2001	Honor Book	Illustrator	Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth	Rockwell, Anne F.
2001	Winner	Illustrator	Uptown	Collier, Bryan
2001	Honor Book	Illustrator	Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys	Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
2000	Honor Book	Illustrator	Black Cat	Myers, Christopher A.
2000	Winner	Illustrator	In the Time of the Drums	Siegelson, Kim L.
2000	Honor Book	Illustrator	My Rows and Piles of Coins	Mollel, Tololwa M.
1999	Honor Book	Illustrator	The Bat Boy & His Violin	Curtis, Gavin
1999	Honor Book	Illustrator	Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra	Pinkney, Andrea Davis
1999	Honor Book	Illustrator	I Have Heard of a Land	Thomas, Joyce Carol
1999	Winner	Illustrator	I See the Rhythm	Igus, Toyomi
1998	Honor Book	Illustrator	Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry	Bryan, Ashley
1998	Honor Book	Illustrator	Harlem: A Poem	Myers, Walter Dean
1998	Honor Book	Illustrator	The Hunterman and the Crocodile	Diakite, Baba Wague
1998	Winner	Illustrator	In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers	Steptoe, Javaka
1997	Winner	Illustrator	Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman	Schroeder, Alan
1997	Honor Book	Illustrator	Neeny Coming, Neeny Going	English, Karen
1997	Honor Book	Illustrator	The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African-American Children	Adedjouma, Davida
1997	Honor Book	Illustrator	Running the Road to ABC	Lauture, Denize
1996	Honor Book	Illustrator	The Faithful Friend	San Souci, Robert D.
1996	Honor Book	Illustrator	Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales	Hamilton, Virginia
1996	Winner	Illustrator	The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo	Feelings, Tom
1995	Winner	Illustrator	The Creation	Johnson, James Weldon
1995	Honor Book	Illustrator	Meet Danitra Brown	Grimes, Nikki
1995	Honor Book	Illustrator	The Singing Man	Medearis, Angela Shelf
1994	Winner	Illustrator	Soul Looks Back in Wonder	Feelings, Tom
1993	Winner	Illustrator	The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth	Anderson, David A.
1992	Winner	Illustrator	Tar Beach	Ringgold, Faith
1991	Winner	Illustrator	Aida	Price, Leontyne
1990	Winner	Illustrator	Nathaniel Talking	Greenfield, Eloise
1989	Winner	Illustrator	Mirandy and Brother Wind	McKissack, Patricia C.
1988	Winner	Illustrator	Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale	Steptoe, John
1987	Winner	Illustrator	Half a Moon and One Whole Star	Dragonwagon Crescent
1986	Winner	Illustrator	The Patchwork Quilt	Flournoy, Valerie
1984	Winner	Illustrator	My Mama Needs Me	Walter, Mildred Pitts
1982	Winner	Illustrator	Mother Crocodile: Maman-Caiman""	Diop, Birago
1981	Winner	Illustrator	Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum	Bryan, Ashley
1980	Winner	Illustrator	Cornrows	Yarbrough, Camille
2002	Winner	New Talent	Freedom Summer	Wiles, Deborah