All 381 Coretta Scott King Award Winning and Honored Books Since 1970
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2026 – Author AwardWill’s Race for Home
2026 – Author HonorSplit the Sky
2026 – Author HonorThe Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
2026 – Author HonorThe Library in the Woods- 2026 – Illustrator AwardThe Library in the Woods
2026 – Illustrator HonorAndre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
2026 – Illustrator HonorCity Summer, Country Summer
2026 – John Steptoe Award for New Talent Under the Neon Lights
2025 – Author AwardTwenty-Four Seconds from Now …: A Love Story
2025 – Author HonorBlack Girl You Are Atlas
2025 – Author HonorBlack Star
2025 – Author HonorOne Big Open Sky
2025 – Illustrator AwardMy Daddy Is a Cowboy: A Picture Book
2025 – Illustrator HonorCoretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
2025 – Illustrator HonorEverywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava
2025 – Illustrator HonorGo Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
2025 – John Steptoe Award for New Talent Kwame Crashes the Underworld
2025 – John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin
2024 – Author AwardNigeria Jones
2024 – Author HonorBig
2024 – Author HonorHow Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
2024 – Author HonorKin: Rooted in Hope
2024 – Illustrator AwardAn American Story
2024 – Illustrator Honor Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes- 2024 – Illustrator HonorBig
2024 – Illustrator HonorThere Was a Party for Langston
2024 – John Steptoe Award for New Talent There Goes the Neighborhood
2024 – John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award We Could Fly
2023 – Author AwardFreewater
2023 – Author HonorStar Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
2023 – Author HonorThe Talk
2023 – Author HonorVictory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
2023 – Illustrator AwardStanding in the Need of Prayer (paperback): A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
2023 – Illustrator Honor Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love
2023 – Illustrator HonorSwim Team- 2023 – Illustrator HonorVictory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
2023 – John Steptoe Award for New Talent We Deserve Monuments
2023 – John Steptoe Illustrator Award for New Talent Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
2022 – Author AwardUnspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
2022 – Author HonorHome Is Not a Country
2022 – Author HonorRevolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
2022 – Author HonorThe People Remember- 2022 – Illustrator AwardUnspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
2022 – Illustrator HonorNina: A Story of Nina Simone
2022 – Illustrator HonorSoul Food Sunday
2022 – Illustrator HonorWe Wait For The Sun
2022 – John Steptoe Award for New Talent Me (Moth)
2022 – John Steptoe Illustrator Award for New Talent The Me I Choose to Be
2021 – Author AwardBefore the Ever After
2021 – Author HonorAll the Days Past, All the Days to Come
2021 – Author HonorKing and the Dragonflies
2021 – Author HonorLifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
2021 – Illustrator AwardRespect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
2021 – Illustrator HonorExquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
2021 – Illustrator HonorMagnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
2021 – Illustrator HonorMe & Mama
2021 – John Steptoe Award for New Talent Legendborn
2020 – Author AwardNew Kid
2020 – Author HonorLook Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
2020 – Author HonorThe Stars and the Blackness Between Them
2020 – Author HonorTristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
2020 – Illustrator AwardThe Undefeated
2020 – Illustrator HonorInfinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace
2020 – Illustrator HonorSulwe
2020 – John Steptoe Award for New Talent Genesis Begins Again
2020 – John Steptoe Illustrator Award for New Talent What Is Given from the Heart
2019 – Author AwardA Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
2019 – Author HonorFinding Langston
2019 – Author HonorThe Parker Inheritance
2019 – Author HonorThe Season of Styx Malone
2019 – Illustrator AwardThe Stuff of Stars
2019 – Illustrator HonorHidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
2019 – Illustrator HonorLet the Children March
2019 – Illustrator HonorMemphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
2019 – John Steptoe Author Award for New TalentMonday’s Not Coming
2019 – John Steptoe Illustrator Award for New TalentThank You, Omu!
2018 – Author AwardPiecing Me Together
2018 – Author HonorLong Way Down
2018 – Author HonorThe Hate U Give
2018 – Illustrator & Author HonorCrown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
2018 – Illustrator AwardOut of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
2018 – Illustrator HonorBefore She was Harriet
2018 – John Steptoe Author Award for New TalentThe Stars Beneath Our Feet
2018 – John Steptoe Illustrator Award for New TalentMama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
2017 – Author AwardMarch Book Three
2017 – Author HonorAs Brave As You
2017 – Author HonorFreedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
2017 – Illustrator AwardRadiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
2017 – Illustrator HonorFreedom in Congo Square
2017 – Illustrator HonorIn Plain Sight: A Game
2017 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentThe Sun Is Also a Star
2016 – Author AwardGone Crazy in Alabama
2016 – Author HonorAll American Boys
2016 – Author HonorThe Boy in the Black Suit
2016 – Author HonorX: A Novel
2016 – Illustrator AwardTrombone Shorty
2016 – Illustrator HonorLast Stop on Market Street
2016 – Illustrator HonorThe Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
2016 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentHoodoo
2016 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentVoice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
2015 – Author AwardBrown Girl Dreaming
2015 – Author HonorHow I Discovered Poetry
2015 – Author HonorHow It Went Down
2015 – Author HonorThe Crossover
2015 – Illustrator AwardFirebird
2015 – Illustrator HonorJosephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker
2015 – Illustrator HonorLittle Melba And Her Big Trombone
2015 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentWhen I Was the Greatest (paperback)
2014 – Author AwardP.S. Be Eleven
2014 – Author HonorDarius & Twig
2014 – Author HonorMarch Book One
2014 – Author HonorWords With Wings
2014 – Illustrator AwardKnock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me
2014 – Illustrator HonorNelson Mandela
2014 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentWhen The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop
2013 – Author AwardHand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
2013 – Author HonorEach Kindness
2013 – Author HonorNo Crystal Stair
2013 – Illustrator AwardI, Too, Am America
2013 – Illustrator HonorEllen’s Broom
2013 – Illustrator HonorH.O.R.S.E.: A Game Of Basketball And Imagination
2013 – Illustrator HonorI Have a Dream (Picture Book)
2012 – Author AwardHeart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
2012 – Author HonorNever Forgotten
2012 – Author HonorThe Great Migration: Journey To The North
2012 – Illustrator AwardUnderground: Finding The Light To Freedom- 2012 – Illustrator HonorHeart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
2011 – Author AwardOne Crazy Summer
2011 – Author HonorLockdown
2011 – Author HonorNinth Ward
2011 – Author HonorYummy: The Last Days Of A Southside Shorty
2011 – Illustrator AwardDave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
2011 – Illustrator HonorJimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow: A Story Of The Young Jimi Hendrix
2011 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentSeeds Of Change: Planting A Path To Peace
2011 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentZora and Me
2010 – Author HonorMare’s War
2010 – Illustrator AwardMy People
2010 – Illustrator HonorThe Negro Speaks Of Rivers
2010 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentThe Rock And The River
2009 – Author AwardWe Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball
2009 – Author HonorBecoming Billie Holiday
2009 – Author HonorKeeping the Night Watch
2009 – Author HonorThe Blacker The Berry- 2009 – Illustrator AwardThe Blacker The Berry
2009 – Illustrator HonorBefore John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane
2009 – Illustrator HonorThe Moon Over Star- 2009 – Illustrator HonorWe Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball
2009 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentBird
2008 – Author AwardElijah of Buxton
2008 – Author Honor12 Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
2008 – Author HonorNovember Blues (The Jericho Trilogy)
2008 – Illustrator AwardLet it Shine
2008 – Illustrator HonorJazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
2008 – Illustrator HonorThe Secret Olivia Told Me
2008 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentBrendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It
2007 – Author AwardCopper Sun
2007 – Author HonorThe Road to Paris
2007 – Illustrator AwardMoses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
2007 – Illustrator HonorJazz
2007 – Illustrator HonorPoetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
2007 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentStanding Against the Wind
2006 – Author AwardDay of Tears
2006 – Author HonorA Wreath for Emmett Till
2006 – Author HonorDark Sons
2006 – Author HonorMaritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
2006 – Illustrator AwardRosa
2006 – Illustrator HonorBrothers In Hope
2006 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentJimi & Me
2005 – Author AwardRemember: The Journey to School Integration
2005 – Author HonorFortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
2005 – Author HonorThe Legend of Buddy Bush
2005 – Author HonorWho Am I Without Him?
2005 – Illustrator AwardEllington Was Not a Street
2005 – Illustrator HonorGod Bless the Child
2005 – Illustrator HonorThe People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
2005 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentJazzy Miz Mozetta
2005 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentMissy Violet and Me
2004 – Author AwardThe First Part Last
2004 – Author HonorDays Of Jubilee
2004 – Author HonorLocomotion
2004 – Author HonorThe Battle Of Jericho
2004 – Illustrator AwardBeautiful Blackbird
2004 – Illustrator HonorAlmost to Freedom
2004 – Illustrator HonorThunder Rose
2004 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentThe Way a Door Closes
2003 – Author AwardBronx Masquerade
2003 – Author HonorTalkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
2003 – Author HonorThe Red Rose Box- 2003 – Illustrator AwardTalkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
2003 – Illustrator HonorRap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles - Think of That!
2003 – Illustrator HonorVisiting Langston
2003 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentChill Wind
2003 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentThe Moon Ring
2002 – Author AwardThe Land
2002 – Author HonorCarver: A Life in Poems
2002 – Author HonorMoney Hungry
2002 – Illustrator AwardGoin’ Someplace Special
2002 – Illustrator HonorMartin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2002 – Illustrator HonorThe Bell Rang
2002 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentFreedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer
2001 – Author AwardMiracle’s Boys
2001 – Author HonorLet It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
2001 – Illustrator AwardUptown (An Owlet Book)
2001 – Illustrator HonorFreedom River
2001 – Illustrator HonorOnly Passing Through
2001 – Illustrator HonorVirgie Goes to School with Us Boys
2000 – Author AwardBud, Not Buddy
2000 – Author HonorBlack Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
2000 – Author HonorFrancie
2000 – Author HonorMonster
2000 – Illustrator AwardIn the Time of the Drums
2000 – Illustrator HonorBlack Cat
2000 – Illustrator HonorMy Rows and Piles of Coins
1999 – Author AwardHeaven
1999 – Author HonorJazmin’s Notebook
1999 – Author HonorThe Other Side: Shorter Poems
1999 – Illustrator AwardI See the Rhythm
1999 – Illustrator HonorDuke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
1999 – Illustrator HonorI Have Heard of a Land
1999 – Illustrator HonorThe Bat Boy and His Violin
1999 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentThe Piano Man
1999 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentThe Skin I’m In
1998 – Author AwardForged by Fire
1998 – Author HonorBayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
1998 – Illustrator AwardIn Daddy’s Arms I am Tall
1998 – Illustrator HonorAshley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry
1998 – Illustrator HonorHarlem
1998 – Illustrator HonorThe Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale
1997 – Author AwardSlam!
1997 – Author HonorRebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
1997 – Illustrator AwardMinty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
1997 – Illustrator HonorNeeny Coming, Neeny Going
1997 – Illustrator HonorRunning The Road To ABC (Aladdin Picture Books)
1997 – Illustrator HonorThe Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children
1997 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentAnother Way to Dance
1996 – Author AwardHer Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales
1996 – Author HonorFrom the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
1996 – Author HonorLike Sisters on the Homefront
1996 – Author HonorThe Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
1996 – Illustrator AwardThe Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo- 1996 – Illustrator HonorHer Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales
1996 – Illustrator HonorThe Faithful Friend
1995 – Author AwardChristmas In The Big House: Christmas In The Quarters
1995 – Author HonorBlack Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (Polaris)
1995 – Author HonorI Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
1995 – Author HonorThe Captive (Apple Paperbacks)
1995 – Illustrator AwardThe Creation
1995 – Illustrator HonorMeet Danitra Brown
1995 – Illustrator HonorThe Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folktale
1995 – John Steptoe Award for New TalentTears Of A Tiger (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
1994 – Author AwardToning The Sweep
1994 – Author HonorBrown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
1994 – Author HonorMalcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
1994 – Illustrator AwardSoul Looks Back in Wonder- 1994 – Illustrator HonorBrown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
1994 – Illustrator HonorUncle Jed’s Barbershop
1993 – Author AwardThe Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
1993 – Author HonorMississippi Challenge
1993 – Author HonorSojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
1993 – Author HonorSomewhere In The Darkness
1993 – Illustrator AwardThe Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth
1993 – Illustrator HonorLittle Eight John (Picture Puffins)
1993 – Illustrator HonorSukey and the Mermaid
1993 – Illustrator HonorWorking Cotton
1992 – Author AwardNow Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
1992 – Author HonorNight on Neighborhood Street (Picture Puffins)
1992 – Illustrator AwardTar Beach
1992 – Illustrator HonorAll Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals- 1992 – Illustrator HonorNight on Neighborhood Street (Picture Puffins)
1991 – Author AwardThe Road to Memphis
1991 – Author HonorBlack Dance in America: A History Through Its People
1991 – Author HonorWhen I Am Old With You (Orchard Paperbacks)
1991 – Illustrator AwardAida
1990 – Author HonorMartin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement (Makers of America)
1990 – Author HonorNathaniel Talking
1990 – Author HonorThe Bells of Christmas- 1990 – Illustrator AwardNathaniel Talking
1990 – Illustrator HonorThe Talking Eggs
1989 – Author AwardFallen Angels
1989 – Author HonorA Thief in the Village: And Other Stories of Jamaica
1989 – Illustrator AwardMirandy and Brother Wind
1989 – Illustrator HonorStorm in the Night
1989 – Illustrator HonorUnder The Sunday Tree
1988 – Author AwardThe Friendship
1988 – Author HonorAn Enchanted Hair Tale (Reading Rainbow Book)
1988 – Author HonorTales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
1988 – Illustrator AwardMufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
1988 – Illustrator HonorThe Invisible Hunters/Los cazadores invisibles (Stories from Central America)
1988 – Illustrator HonorWhat a Morning!: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals (Aladdin Picture Books)
1987 – Author AwardJustin and the Best Biscuits in the World
1987 – Author HonorLion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
1987 – Author HonorWhich Way Freedom? (Obi and Easter Trilogy)
1987 – Illustrator AwardHalf a Moon and One Whole Star
1987 – Illustrator HonorC.L.O.U.D.S.- 1987 – Illustrator HonorLion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
1986 – Author AwardThe People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
1986 – Author HonorJunius over far
1986 – Author HonorTrouble’s Child
1986 – Illustrator AwardThe Patchwork Quilt- 1986 – Illustrator HonorThe People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
1985 – Author AwardMotown and Didi (Polk Street Special)
1985 – Author HonorA Little Love
1985 – Author HonorCircle of Gold
1984 – Author AwardEverett Anderson’s Goodbye
1984 – Author HonorBecause We Are
1984 – Author HonorBright Shadow
1984 – Author HonorLena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne
1984 – Author HonorThe Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
1984 – Illustrator AwardMy Mama Needs Me
1984 – Special CitationThe Words of Martin Luther King
1983 – Author AwardSweet Whispers, Brother Rush
1983 – Author HonorThis Strange New Feeling
1983 – Illustrator AwardBlack Child
1983 – Illustrator HonorAll the Colors of the Race
1983 – Illustrator HonorI’m Going to Sing (Black American Spirituals, Vol. 2)
1983 – Illustrator HonorJust Us Women
1982 – Author AwardLet the Circle Be Unbroken
1982 – Author HonorLou in the Limelight
1982 – Author HonorMary: An Autobiography (Chapel Hill Books)
1982 – Author HonorRainbow Jordan
1982 – Illustrator AwardMother Crocodile
1982 – Illustrator HonorDaydreamers
1981 – Author AwardThis Life
1981 – Author HonorDon’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
1981 – Illustrator AwardBeat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum (Aladdin Books)
1981 – Illustrator HonorCount on Your Fingers African Style
1981 – Illustrator HonorGrandmama’s Joy
1980 – Author AwardThe Young Landlords
1980 – Author HonorAndrew Young, Man With a Mission
1980 – Author HonorChildtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
1980 – Author HonorJames Van Derzee: The Picture Takin’ Man
1980 – Author HonorLet The Lion Eat Straw
1980 – Author HonorMovin’ Up, Pop Gordy Tells His Story
1980 – Illustrator AwardCornrows
1979 – Author AwardEscape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass (Puffin books)
1979 – Author HonorBenjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America
1979 – Author HonorI Have a Sister—My Sister Is Deaf
1979 – Author HonorJustice and Her Brothers
1979 – Author HonorSkates of Uncle Richard
1979 – Illustrator AwardSomething on My Mind
1978 – Author AwardAfrica Dream
1978 – Author HonorBarbara Jordan
1978 – Author HonorCoretta Scott King (Americans All)
1978 – Author HonorMarvin and Tige
1978 – Author HonorMary McLeod Bethune (Crowell Biographies)
- 1978 – Illustrator AwardAfrica Dream
1977 – Author AwardThe Story of Stevie Wonder
1977 – Author HonorEverett Anderson’s Friend
1977 – Author HonorQuiz Book on Black America
1977 – Author HonorRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 – Author AwardDuey’s Tale
1976 – Author HonorFast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
1976 – Author HonorJulius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa
1976 – Author HonorPaul Robeson
1976 – Author HonorSong Of The Trees
1975 – Author AwardThe Legend of Africania (An Ebony Jr! Book)
1974 – Author AwardRay Charles
1974 – Author HonorA Hero Ain’t Nothin But a Sandwich
1974 – Author HonorDon’t You Remember
1974 – Author HonorGuests in the Promised Land
1974 – Author HonorMs. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women
1974 – Author HonorMukasa
1973 – Author AwardI Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
1972 – Author AwardSeventeen Black Artists
1971 – Author AwardBlack Troubadour
1971 – Author HonorBlack Means …
1971 – Author HonorEvery Man Heart Lay Down
1971 – Author HonorI Am a Black Woman
1971 – Author HonorI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1971 – Author HonorMary Jo’s Grandmother
1971 – Author HonorThe Ebony Book of Black Achievement
1971 – Author HonorThe Voice of the Children
1971 – Author HonorUnbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
1970 – Author AwardMartin Luther King Jr.: Man of Peace
