| YEAR |
TITLE |
AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR |
| 2008 |
| Author Awards |
Elijah of Buxton
(Award Winner) |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
|
November Blues
(Honor Book) |
Sharon M. Draper |
|
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
(Honor Book) |
Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| Illustrator Awards |
Let it Shine
(Award Winner) |
Ashley Bryan |
|
The Secret Olivia Told Me
(Honor Book) |
N. Joy
Nancy Devard, il. |
|
Jazz On A Saturday Night
(Honor Book) |
Leo and Diane Dillon |
| John Steptoe Awards |
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It
(Author Award) |
Sundee T. Frazier |
| 2007 |
| Author Awards |
Copper Sun
(Award Winner) |
Sharon Draper |
|
The Road to Paris
(Honor Book) |
Nikki Grimes |
| Illustrator Awards |
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
(Award Winner) |
Carole Boston Weatherford
Kadir Nelson, illustrator (il.) |
|
Jazz
(Honor Book) |
Walter Dean Myers
Christopher Myers, il. |
|
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
(Honor Book) |
David Roessel & Arnold Rampersad, eds.
Benny Andrews, il. |
| John Steptoe Awards |
Standing Against the Wind
(Author Award) |
Traci L. Jones |
| 2006 |
| Author Awards |
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
(Award Winner) |
Julius Lester |
|
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
(Honor Book) |
Tonya Bolden |
|
Dark Sons
(Honor Book) |
Nikki Grimes |
|
A Wreath for Emmett Till
(Honor Book) |
Marilyn Nelson |
| Illustrator Awards |
Rosa
(Award Winner) |
Giovanni, Nikki
Bryan Collier, illustrator (ill.) |
|
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
(Honor Book) |
Mary Williams /
R. Gregory Christie, il. |
| John Steptoe Awards |
Jimi & Me
(Author Award) |
Jaime Adoff |
| 2005 |
| Author Awards |
Remember : The Journey to School Integration
(Award Winner) |
Toni Morrison |
|
The Legend of Buddy Bush
(Honor Book) |
Sheila P. Moses |
|
Who am I Without Him?
(Honor Book) |
Sharon G. Flake |
|
Fortune's Bones : The Manumission Requiem
(Honor Book) |
Marilyn Nelson |
| Illustrator Awards |
Ellington Was Not a Street
(Award Winner) |
Ntozake Shange/
Kadir Nelson, illustrator (ill.) |
|
God Bless the Child
(Honor Book) |
Billie Holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr./
Jerry Pinkney, ill. |
|
The People Could Fly : The Picture Book
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton
Leo & Diane Dillon, ills. |
| John Steptoe Awards |
Missy Violet & Me
(Author Award) |
Barbara Hathaway |
|
Jazzy Miz Mozetta
(Illustrator Award) |
Brenda C. Roberts/
Frank Morrison, ill. |
| 2004 |
| Author Awards |
The First Part Last
(Award Winner) |
Angela Johnson |
|
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
(Honor Book) |
Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack |
|
Locomotion
(Honor Book) |
Jacqueline Woodson |
|
The Battle of Jericho
(Honor Book) |
Sharon M. Draper |
| Illustrator Awards |
Beautiful Blackbird
(Award Winner) |
Ashley Bryan |
|
Almost to Freedom
(Honor Book) |
Colin Bootman |
|
Thunder Rose
(Honor Book) |
Kadir Nelson |
| John Steptoe Awards |
The Way a Door Closes
(Author Award) |
Hope Anita Smith |
|
My Family Plays Music
(Illustrator Award) |
Judy Cox/
Elbrite Brown, ill. |
| 2003 |
| Author Awards |
Bronx Masquerade
(Award Winner) |
Nikki Grimes |
|
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
(Honor Book) |
Nikki Grimes |
|
The Red Rose Box
(Honor Book) |
Brenda Woods |
| Illustrator Awards |
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
(Award Winner) |
E. B. Lewis |
|
Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That
(Honor Book) |
Leo & Diane Dillon |
|
Visiting Langston
(Honor Book) |
Bryan Collier |
| John Steptoe Awards |
Chill Wind
(Author Award) |
Janet McDonald |
|
The Moon Ring
(Illustrator Award) |
Randy DuBurke |
| 2002 |
| Author Awards |
The Land
(Award Winner) |
Mildred D. Taylor |
|
Money Hungry
(Honor Book) |
Sharon G. Flake |
|
Carver, a Life in Poems
(Honor Book) |
Marilyn Nelson |
| Illustrator Awards |
Goin' Someplace Special
(Award Winner) |
Jerry Pinkney |
|
Martin's Big Words
(Honor Book) |
Doreen Rappoport/ Bryan Collier, ill. |
| John Steptoe Award |
Freedom Summer
(Illustrator Award) |
Deborah Wiles/ Jerome Lagarrigue, ill. |
| 2001 |
| Author Awards |
Miracle's Boys
(Award Winner) |
Jacqueline Woodson |
|
Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedon Fighters
(Honor Book) |
Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| Illustrator Awards |
Uptown
(Award Winner) |
Bryan Collier |
|
Freedom River
(Honor Book) |
Bryan Collier |
|
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
(Honor Book) |
Anne Rockwell/ R. Gregory Christie, ill. |
|
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
(Honor Book) |
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard/ E. B. Lewis, ill. |
| (No John Steptoe Award presented) |
| 2000 |
| Author Awards |
Bud, Not Buddy
(Award Winner)
| Christopher Paul Curtis |
|
Francie
(Honor Book) |
Karen English |
|
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
(Honor Book) |
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack |
|
Monster
(Honor Book) |
Walter Dean Myers |
| Illustrator Awards |
In
the Time of the Drums
(Award Winner) |
Kim L. Siegelson/ Brian Pinkney, ill. |
|
My Rows and Piles of Coins
(Honor Book) |
Tololwa M. Mollel/ E. B. Lewis, ill. |
|
Black Cat
(Honor Book) |
Christopher Myers |
| (No John Steptoe Award presented) |
| 1999 |
| Author Awards |
Heaven
(Award Winner) |
Angela Johnson |
|
Jazmin's Notebook
(Honor Book) |
Nikki Grimes |
|
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Hansen & Gary McGowan |
|
The Other Side: Shorter Poems
(Honor Book) |
Angela Johnson |
| Illustrator Awards |
i see the rhythm
(Award Winner) |
Toyomi Igus/
Michelle Wood, ill. |
|
I Have Heard of a Land
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Carol Thomas/
Floyd Cooper, ill. |
|
The Bat Boy and His Violin
(Honor Book) |
Gavin Curtis/
E. B. Lewis, ill. |
|
Duke Ellington: The Piano Man and His Orchestra
(Award Winner) |
Andrea Davis Pinkney/
Brian Pinkney, ill. |
| John Steptoe Awards |
The Skin I'm In
(Author Award) |
Sharon Flake |
|
The Piano Man
(Illustrator Award) |
Debbie Chocolate/
Eric Velasquez, ill. |
| 1998 |
| Author Awards |
Forged by Fire
(Award Winner) |
Sharon M. Draper |
|
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
(Honor Book) |
James Haskins |
|
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Hansen |
| Illustrator Awards |
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall:
African Americans Celebrating Fathers
(Award Winner) |
Javaka Steptoe |
|
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
(Honor Book) |
Ashley Bryan |
|
Harlem
(Honor Book) |
Walter Dean Myers/
Christopher Myers, ill. |
|
The Hunterman and the Crocodile
(Honor Book) |
Baba Wague Diakite |
| (No John Steptoe Award presented) |
| 1997 |
| Author Awards |
Slam
(Award Winner) |
Walter Dean Myers |
|
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolt
(Honor Book) |
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack |
| Illustrator Awards |
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
(Award Winner) |
Alan Schroeder/
Jerry Pinkney, ill. |
|
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children
(Honor Book) |
Adedjouma, ed./
Gregorie Christie, ill. |
|
Running the Road to ABC
(Honor Book) |
Denise Lauture/
Reynold Ruffins, ill. |
|
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going
(Honor Book) |
Karen English/
Synthis Saint James, ill. |
| John Steptoe Award |
Another Way to Dance
(Award Winner) |
Martha Southgate |
| 1996 |
| Author Awards |
Her Stories
(Award Winner) |
Virginia Hamilton |
|
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
(Honor Book) |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
|
Like Sisters on the Homefront
(Honor Book) |
Rita Williams-Garcia |
|
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
(Honor Book) |
Jacqueline Woodson |
| Illustrator Awards |
The Middle Passage: White
Ships Black Cargo
(Award Winner) |
Tom Feelings |
|
Her Stories
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton/
Leo & Diane Dillon, ills. |
|
The Faithful Friend
(Honor Book) |
Robert San Souci/
Brian Pinkney, ill. |
| (No John Steptoe Award presented) |
| 1995 |
| Author Awards |
Christmas in the Big House,
Christmas in the Quarters
(Award Winner) |
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack |
|
The Captive
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Hansen |
|
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
(Honor Book) |
Jacqueline Woodson |
|
Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League
(Honor Book) |
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack |
| Illustrator Awards |
The Creation
(Award Winner) |
James Weldon Johnson/
James Ransome, ill. |
|
The Singing Man
(Honor Book) |
Angela Shelf Medearis/
Teresa Shaffer, ill. |
|
Meet Danitra Brown
(Honor Book) |
Nikki Grimes/
Floyd Cooper, ill. |
John Steptoe Award
(first presentation) |
Tears of a Tiger
(Award Winner) |
Sharon Draper |
| 1994 |
| Author Awards |
Toning the Sweep
(Award Winner) |
Angela Johnson |
|
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Carol Thomas |
|
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
(Honor Book) |
Walter Dean Myers |
| Illustrator Awards |
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
(Award Winner) |
Tom Feelings |
|
Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Carol Thomas/
Floyd Cooper, ill. |
|
Uncle Jed's Barbershop
(Honor Book) |
Margaree King Mitchell/
James Ransome, ill. |
| 1993 |
| Author Awards |
Dark Thirty:
Southern
Tales of the Supernatural
(Award Winner) |
Patricia C. McKissack |
|
Mississippi Challenge
(Honor Book) |
Mildred Pitts Walter |
|
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
(Honor Book) |
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack |
|
Somewhere in the Darkness
(Honor Book) |
Walter Dean Myers |
| Illustrator Awards |
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth
(Award Winner) |
David A. Anderson/
Kathleen Atkins Wilson, ill. |
|
Little Eight John
(Honor Book) |
Jan Wahl/
Wil Clay, ill. |
|
Sukey and the Mermaid
(Honor Book) |
Robert San Souci/
Brian Pinkney, ill. |
|
Working Cotton
(Honor Book) |
Sherley Anne Williams/
Carole Byard, ill. |
| 1992 |
| Author Awards |
Now Is Your Time: The
African American Struggle for Freedom
(Award Winner) |
Walter Dean Myers |
|
Night on Neighborhood Street
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield |
| Illustrator Awards |
Tar Beach
(Award Winner) |
Faith Ringgold |
|
All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African American Spirituals
(Honor Book) |
Ashley Bryan |
|
Night on Neighborhood Street
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield/
Jan Spivey Gilchrist, ill. |
| 1991 |
| Author Awards |
The Road to Memphis
(Award Winner) |
Mildred D. Taylor |
|
Black Dance in America
(Honor Book) |
James Haskins |
|
When I am Old with You
(Honor Book) |
Angela Johnson |
| Illustrator Award |
Aida
(Award Winner) |
Leontyne Price/
Leo & Diane Dillon, ills. |
| 1990 |
| Author Awards |
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
(Award Winner) |
Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack |
|
Nathaniel Talking
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield/
Jan Spivey Gilchrist, ill. |
|
The Bells of Christmas
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Gilchrist |
|
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement
(Honor Book) |
Lillie Patterson |
| Illustrator Awards |
Nathaniel Talking
(Award Winner) |
Eloise Greenfield/
Jan Spivey Gilcrist, ill. |
|
The Talking Eggs
(Honor Book) |
Robert San Souci/
Jerry Pinkney, ill. |
| 1989 |
| Author Awards |
Fallen Angels
(Award Winner) |
Walter Dean Myers |
|
A Thief in the Village and Other Stories
(Honor Book) |
James Berry |
|
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton |
| Illustrator Awards |
Mirandy and Brother Wind
(Award Winner) |
Patricia C. McKissack/
Jerry Pinkney, ill. |
|
Under the Sunday Tree
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield/
Amos Ferguson, ill. |
|
Storm in the Night
(Honor Book) |
Mary Stolz/
Pat Cummings, ill. |
| 1988 |
| Author Awards |
The Friendship
(Award Winner) |
Mildred L. Taylor |
|
An Enchanted Hair Tale
(Honor Book) |
Alexis De Veaux |
|
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
(Honor Book) |
Julius Lester |
| Illustrator Awards |
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters:
An African Tale (Award Winner) |
John Steptoe |
|
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
(Honor Book) |
John Langstaff/
Ashley Bryan, ill. |
|
The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua
(Honor Book) |
Harriet Rohmer/
Joe Sam, ill. |
| 1987 |
| Author Awards |
Justin and the Best Biscuits
in the World
(Award Winner) |
Mildred Pitts Walter |
|
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales
(Honor Book) |
Ashley Bryan |
|
Which Way Freedom
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Hansen |
| Illustrator Awards |
Half a Moon and One Whole
Star
(Award Winner) |
Crescent Dragonwagon/
Jerry Pinkney, ill. |
|
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales
(Honor Book) |
Ashley Bryan |
|
C.L.O.U.D.S.
(Honor Book) |
Pat Cummings |
| 1986 |
| Author Awards |
The People Could Fly:
American Black Folktales
(Award Winner) |
Virginia Hamilton |
|
Junius Over Far
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton |
|
Trouble's Child
(Honor Book) |
Mildred Pitts Walter |
| Illustrator Awards |
The Patchwork Quilt
(Award Winner) |
Valerie Flournoy/
Jerry Pinkney, ill. |
|
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton/
Leo & Diane Dillon |
| 1985 |
| Author Awards |
Motown and Didi
(Award Winner) |
Walter Dean Myers |
|
Circle of Gold
(Honor Book) |
Candy Dawson Boyd |
|
A Little Love
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton |
| (No Illustrator Award presented) |
| 1984 |
| Author Awards |
Everett Anderson's Good-bye
(Award Winner) |
Lucille Clifton |
|
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Special Citation) |
Coretta Scott King, comp. |
|
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton |
|
Lena Horne
(Honor Book) |
James Haskins |
|
Bright Shadow
(Honor Book) |
Joyce Carol Thomas |
|
Because We Are
(Honor Book) |
Mildred Pitts Walter |
| Illustrator Award |
My Mama Needs Me
(Award Winner) |
Mildred Pitts Walter/
Pat Cummings, ill. |
| 1983 |
| Author Awards |
Sweet Whispers, Brother
Rush
(Award Winner) |
Virginia Hamilton |
|
This Strange New Feeling
(Honor Book) |
Julius Lester |
| Illustrator Awards |
Black Child
(Award Winner) |
Peter Mugabane |
|
All the Colors of the
Race
(Honor Book) |
Arnold Adoff/
John Steptoe, ill. |
|
I'm Going to Sing: Black
American Spirituals
(Honor Book) |
Ashley Bryan, ill. |
|
Just Us Women
(Honor Book) |
Jeanette Caines/
Pat Cummings, ill. |
| 1982 |
| Author Awards |
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
(Award Winner) |
Mildred D. Taylor |
|
Rainbow Jordan
(Honor Book) |
Alice Childress |
|
Lou in the Limelight
(Honor Book) |
Kristin Hunter |
|
Mary: An Autobiography
(Honor Book) |
Mary E. Mebane |
| Illustrator Awards |
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle
Amadou Tale from Sengal (Award Winner) |
Rosa Guy/
John Steptoe, ill. |
|
Daydreamers
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield/
Tom Feelings, ill. |
| 1981 |
| Author Awards |
This Life
(Award Winner) |
Sidney Poitier |
|
Don't Explian: A Song of Billy Holiday
(Honor Book) |
Alexis De Veaux |
| Illustrator Awards |
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
(Award Winner) |
Ashley Bryan |
|
Grandmama's Joy
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield/
Carole Byard, ill. |
|
Count on Your Fingers African Style
(Honor Book) |
Claudia Zaslavsky/
Jerry Pinkney, ill. |
| 1980 |
| Author Awards |
The Young Landlords
(Award Winner) |
Walter Dean Myers |
|
Movin' Up
(Honor Book) |
Berry Gordy |
|
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield & Lessie Jones Little |
|
Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission
(Honor Book) |
James Haskins |
|
James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man
(Honor Book) |
James Haskins |
|
Let the Lion Eat Straw
(Honor Book) |
Ellease Southerland |
| Illustrator Award |
Cornrows
(Award Winner) |
Camille Yarborough/
Carole Bayard, ill. |
| 1979 |
| Author Awards |
Escape to Freedom
(Award Winner) |
Ossie Davis |
|
Benjamin Banneker
(Honor Book) |
Lillie Patterson |
|
I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf
(Honor Book) |
Jeanne W. Peterson |
|
Justice and Her Brothers
(Honor Book) |
Virginia Hamilton |
|
Skates of Uncle Richard
(Honor Book) |
Carol Fenner |
| Illustrator Award |
Something on My Mind
(Award Winner) |
Nikki Grimes/
Tom Feelings, ill. |
| 1978 |
| Author Awards |
Africa Dream
(Award Winner) |
Eloise Greenfield |
|
The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be
(Honor Book) |
William J. Faulkner |
|
Marvin and Tige
(Honor Book) |
Frankcina Glass |
|
Mary McCleod Bethune
(Honor Book) |
Eloise Greenfield |
|
Barbara Jordan
(Honor Book) |
James Haskins |
|
Coretta Scott King
(Honor Book) |
Lillie Patterson |
|
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman,
the Daughter of Booker T. Washington
(Honor Book) |
Ruth Ann Stewart |
| Illustrator Award |
Africa Dream
(Award Winner) |
Eloise Greenfield/
Carole Bayard, ill. |
| 1977 |
| Author Award |
The Story of Stevie Wonder
(Award Winner) |
James Haskins |
| (No Illustrator Award presented) |
| 1976 |
| Author Award |
Duey's Tale
(Award Winner) |
Pearl Bailey |
| (No Illustrator Award presented) |
| 1975 |
| Author Award |
The Legend of Africana
(Award Winner) |
Dorothy Robinson |
| (No Illustrator Award presented) |
| 1974 |
| Author Award |
Ray Charles
(Award Winner) |
Sharon Bell Mathis |
| Illustrator Award |
Ray Charles
(Award Winner) |
Sharon Bell Mathis/
George Ford, ill. |
| (Note: Prior to 1974, the Coretta Scott King Award was given to authors only.) |
| 1973 Award |
I Never Had It Made: The
Autobiography of Jackie Robinson |
as told to Alfred Duckett |
| 1972 Award |
17 Black Artists |
Elton C. Fax |
| 1971 Award |
Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes |
Charlemae Rollins |
| 1970 Award |
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace |
Lillie Patterson |