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Coretta Scott King Award-Winning Books Owned by the Douglas Library
- The Douglas Library owns all of the books listed below. Click the title of a book to see if it's available to be loaned.
- Coretta Scott King Awards Home Page - History, judging criteria, etc.
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2000s 
2008 Author: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator: Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan
2007 Author: Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
2006 Author: Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
2005 Author: Remember: The Journey To School Integration by Toni Morrison
Illustrator: Ellington Was Not A Street illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Honor Book: God Bless the Child illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Honor Book: The People Could Fly illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
2004 Author: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
2003 Author: Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
2002 Author: The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator: Goin' Someplace Special illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Honor Book: Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
Honor Book: Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Honor Book: Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrated by Bryan Collier
2001 Illustrator: Uptown written and illustrated by Bryan Collier
Honor Book: Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Honor Book: Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys illustrated by E.B. Lewis
2000 Author: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator: In the Time of the Drums illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Honor Book: Black Cat written and illustrated by Christopher Myers
1990s
1999 Author: Heaven by Angela Johnson
Illustrator: I See the Rhythm illustrated by Michele Wood
1998 Author: Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Illustrator: In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
Honor Book: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen
1997 Author: Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator: Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Honor Book: The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children illustrated by Gregory Christie
1996 Author: Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton
Illustrator: Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
Honor Book: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Book: The Faithful Friend illustrated by Brian Pinkney
1995 Author: Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L.
McKissack
Illustrator: The Creation illustrated by James E. Ransome
1994 Author: Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
1992 Honor Book: All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals illustrated by Ashley
Bryan
1991 Author: The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Book: When I Am Old with You by Angela Johnson
1980s
1988 Author: The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
1986 Illustrator: The Patchwork Quilt illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
1985 Honor Book: Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
1982 Honor Book: Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
1981 Author: This Life by Sidney Poitier
1970s
1979 Honor Book: I Have a Sister – My Sister Is Deaf by Jeanne Peterson
1978 Honor Book: The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be
by William J. Faulkner
Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only.
1973 Author: I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett