ShelfEvidentCoretta Scott King Book Awards — Complete Winners List
56 years of winners · American Library Association / Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table · Since 1969 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Jason Reynolds | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | |
| 2024 | — | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | |
| 2021 | Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books | |
| 2020 | Jerry Craft | HarperCollins | |
| 2019 | — | — | |
| 2018 | — | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | |
| 2015 | Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books | |
| 2014 | — | — | |
| 2013 | — | — | |
| 2012 | — | — | |
| 2011 | — | — | |
| 2010 | — | — | |
| 2009 | Kadir Nelson | — | |
| 2008 | Christopher Paul Curtis | — | |
| 2007 | Sharon Draper | — | |
| 2006 | Julius Lester | — | |
| 2005 | Toni Morrison | — | |
| 2004 | Angela Johnson | — | |
| 2003 | Nikki Grimes | — | |
| 2002 | Mildred Taylor | — | |
| 2001 | Jacqueline Woodson | — | |
| 2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis | — | |
| 1999 | Angela Johnson | — | |
| 1998 | Sharon Draper | — | |
| 1997 | Walter Dean Myers | — | |
| 1996 | Virginia Hamilton | — | |
| 1995 | Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack | — | |
| 1994 | Angela Johnson | — | |
| 1993 | Patricia C. McKissack | — | |
| 1992 | Walter Dean Myers | — | |
| 1991 | Mildred Taylor | — | |
| 1990 | Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack | — | |
| 1989 | Walter Dean Myers | — | |
| 1988 | Mildred Taylor | — | |
| 1987 | Mildred Pitts Walter | — | |
| 1986 | Virginia Hamilton | — | |
| 1985 | Walter Dean Myers | — | |
| 1984 | Lucille Clifton | — | |
| 1983 | Virginia Hamilton | — | |
| 1982 | Mildred Taylor | — | |
| 1981 | Sidney Poitier | — | |
| 1980 | Walter Dean Myers | — | |
| 1979 | Ossie Davis | — | |
| 1978 | Eloise Greenfield | — | |
| 1977 | James Haskins | — | |
| 1976 | Pearl Bailey | — | |
| 1975 | Dorothy Robinson | — | |
| 1974 | Sharon Bell Mathis | — | |
| 1973 | Alfred Duckett | — | |
| 1972 | Elton Fax | — | |
| 1971 | Charlemae Rollins | — | |
| 1970 | Lillie Patterson | — |
