Coretta Scott King Book Awards — Complete Winners List

57 years of winners · American Library Association / Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table · Since 1969 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2026	Will's Race for Home	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2025	Twenty-four Seconds from Now...	Jason Reynolds	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2024	Nigeria Jones	Ibi Zoboi	—
2023	Freewater	Amina Luqman-Dawson	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2022	Unspeakable the Tulsa Race Massacre	Carole Boston Weatherford	—
2021	Before the Ever After	Jacqueline Woodson	Nancy Paulsen Books
2020	New Kid	Jerry Craft	HarperCollins
2019	A Few Red Drops the Chicago Race Riot of 1919	Claire Hartfield	—
2018	Piecing Me Together	Renée Watson	—
2017	March Book Three	John Lewis	Top Shelf Productions
2016	Gone Crazy in Alabama	Rita Williams-Garcia	—
2015	Brown Girl Dreaming	Jacqueline Woodson	Nancy Paulsen Books
2014	Ps Be Eleven	Rita Williams-Garcia	—
2013	Hand in Hand Ten Black Men Who Changed America	Andrea Davis Pinkney	—
2012	Heart and Soul the Story of America and African Americans	Kadir Nelson	—
2011	One Crazy Summer	Rita Williams-Garcia	—
2010	Bad News for Outlaws the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves	Vaunda Micheaux Nelson	—
2009	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Author)	Kadir Nelson	—
2008	Elijah of Buxton (Author)	Christopher Paul Curtis	—
2007	Copper Sun (Author)	Sharon Draper	—
2006	Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (Author)	Julius Lester	—
2005	Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Author)	Toni Morrison	—
2004	The First Part Last (Author)	Angela Johnson	—
2003	Bronx Masquerade (Author)	Nikki Grimes	—
2002	The Land (Author)	Mildred D. Taylor	—
2001	Miracle's Boys (Author)	Jacqueline Woodson	—
2000	Bud, Not Buddy (Author)	Christopher Paul Curtis	—
1999	Heaven (Author)	Angela Johnson	—
1998	Forged By Fire (Author)	Sharon Draper	—
1997	Slam (Author)	Walter Dean Myers	—
1996	Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Author)	Virginia Hamilton	—
1995	Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (Author)	Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack	—
1994	Toning the Sweep (Author)	Angela Johnson	—
1993	The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (Author)	Patricia C. McKissack	—
1992	Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom (Author)	Walter Dean Myers	—
1991	The Road to Memphis (Author)	Mildred D. Taylor	—
1990	A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Author)	Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack	—
1989	Fallen Angels (Author)	Walter Dean Myers	—
1988	The Friendship (Author)	Mildred D. Taylor	—
1987	Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (Author)	Mildred Pitts Walter	—
1986	The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Author)	Virginia Hamilton	—
1985	Motown and Didi (Author)	Walter Dean Myers	—
1984	Everett Anderson's Goodbye (Author)	Lucille Clifton	—
1983	Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Author)	Virginia Hamilton	—
1982	Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Author)	Mildred D. Taylor	—
1981	This Life (Author)	Sidney Poitier	—
1980	The Young Landlords (Author)	Walter Dean Myers	—
1979	Escape to Freedom (Author)	Ossie Davis	—
1978	Africa Dream (Author)	Eloise Greenfield	—
1977	The Story of Stevie Wonder (Author)	James Haskins	—
1976	Duey's Tale (Author)	Pearl Bailey	—
1975	The Legend of Africania (Author)	Dorothy Robinson	—
1974	Ray Charles (Author)	Sharon Bell Mathis	—
1973	I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (Author)	Alfred Duckett	—
1972	17 Black Artists (Author)	Elton Fax	—
1971	Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes (Author)	Charlemae Rollins	—
1970	Martin Luther King Jr.: Man of Peace (Author)	Lillie Patterson	—