Coretta Scott King Award Winner Books (2025-1970)

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• Twenty-four seconds from now... : a love story / Reynolds, Jason (author award)
• My daddy is a cowboy / Esperanza, C. G. (illustrator award)
• Nigeria Jones / Zoboi, Ibi Aanu (author award)
• An American story / Coulter, Dare (illustrator award)
• Freewater / Luqman-Dawson, Amina (author award)
• Standing in the need of prayer : a modern retelling of the classic spiritual / Morrison, Frank (illustrator award)
• Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre / Weatherford, Carole Boston (author award) and Cooper, Floyd (illustrator award)
• Before the ever after / Woodson, Jacqueline (author award)
• Respect : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul / Morrison, Frank (illustrator award)
• New kid / Craft, Jerry (author award)
• The Undefeated / Nelson, Kadir (illustrator award)
• A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 / Hartfield, Claire (author award)
• The stuff of stars / Holmes, Ekua (illustrator award)
• Piecing me together / Watson, Renée (author award)
• Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets / Holmes, Ekua (illustrator award)
• March. Book three / Lewis, John (author award)
• Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat / Steptoe, Javaka (illustrator award)
• Gone crazy in Alabama / Williams-Garcia, Rita (author award)
• Trombone Shorty / Collier, Bryan (illustrator award)
• Brown girl dreaming / Woodson, Jacqueline (author award)
• Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird / Myers, Christopher (illustrator award)
• P.S. Be eleven / Williams-Garcia, Rita (author award)
• Knock knock : my dad's dream for me / Collier, Bryan (illustrator award)
• Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America / Pinkney, Andrea Davis (author award)
• I, too, am America / Collier, Bryan (illustrator award)
• Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans / Nelson, Kadir (author award)
• Underground / Evans, Shane (illustrator award)
• One crazy summer / Williams-Garcia, Rita (author award)
• Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave / Collier, Bryan (illustrator award)
• Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshall / Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux (author award)
• My people / Smith, Charles R., Jr. (illustrator award)
• We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / Nelson, Kadir (author award)
• The blacker the berry : poems / Cooper, Floyd (illustrator award)
• Elijah of Buxton / Curtis, Christopher Paul (author award)
• Let it shine : three favorite spirituals / Bryan, Ashley (illustrator award)
• Copper sun / Draper, Sharon M. (author award)
• Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom / Nelson, Kadir (illustrator award)
• Day of tears : a novel in dialogue / Lester, Julius (author award)
• Rosa / Collier, Bryan (illustrator award)
• Remember : the journey to school integration / Morrison, Toni (author award)
• Ellington was not a street / Nelson, Kadir (illustrator award)
• The first part last / Johnson, Angela (author award)
• Beautiful blackbird / Bryan, Ashley (illustrator award)
• Bronx masquerade / Grimes, Nikki (author award)
• Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman / Lewis, E. B. (illustrator award)
• The land / Taylor, Mildred D. (author award)
• Goin' someplace special / Pinkney, Jerry (illustrator award)
• Miracle's boys / Woodson, Jacqueline (author award)
• Uptown / Collier, Bryan (illustrator award)
• Bud, not Buddy / Curtis, Christopher Paul. (author award)
• In the time of the drums / Pinkney, J. Brian (illustrator award)
• Heaven / Johnson, Angela (author award)
• I see the rhythm : a story of African American music / Wood, Michele (illustrator award)
• Forged by fire / Draper, Sharon M. (author award)
• In daddy's arms I am tall : African Americans celebrating fathers / Steptoe, Javaka (illustrator award)
• Slam! / Myers, Walter Dean (author award)
• Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman / Pinkney, Jerry (illustrator award)
• Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales / Hamilton, Virginia (author award)
• The middle passage : white ships/black cargo / Feelings, Tom (illustrator award)
• Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters / McKissack, Pat (author award)
• The Creation / Ransome, James E. (illustrator award)
• Toning the sweep / Johnson, Angela (author award)
• Soul looks back in wonder / Feelings, Tom (illustrator award)
• The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural / McKissack, Pat (author award)
• The origin of life on earth : an African Creation myth / Wilson, Kathleen Atkins (illustrator award)
• Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom / Myers, Walter Dean (author award)
• Tar Beach / Ringgold, Faith (illustrator award)
• The road to Memphis / Taylor, Mildred D. (author award)
• Aida / Dillon, Leo and Diane (illustrator award)
• A long hard journey : the story of the Pullman Porter / McKissack, Pat (author award)
• Nathaniel talking / Gilchrist, Jan Spivey (illustrator award)
• Fallen angels / Myers, Walter Dean (author award)
• Mirandy and Brother Wind / Pinkney, Jerry (illustrator award)
• The friendship / Taylor, Mildred D. (author award)
• Mufaro's beautiful daughters : an African tale / Steptoe, John (illustrator award)
• Justin and the best biscuits in the world / Walter, Mildred Pitts (author award)
• Half a moon and one whole star / Pinkney, Jerry (illustrator award)
• The people could fly : American Black folktales / Hamilton, Virginia (author award)
• The patchwork quilt / Pinkney, Jerry (illustrator award)
• Motown and Didi : a love story / Myers, Walter Dean (author award)
• Everett Anderson's goodbye / Clifton, Lucille (author award)
• My mama needs me / Cummings, Pat (illustrator award)
• Sweet whispers, Brother Rush / Hamilton, Virginia (author award)
• Black child / Magubane, Peter (illustrator award - not available in LINKcat)
• Let the circle be unbroken / Taylor, Mildred D. (author award)
• Mother Crocodile = Maman-Caiman / Steptoe, John (illustrator award)
• This life / Poitier, Sidney (author award)
• Beat the story-drum, pum-pum / Bryan, Ashley (illustrator award)
• The young landlords / Myers, Walter Dean (author award)
• Cornrows / Yarbrough, Camille (illustrator award)
• Escape to Freedom / Davis, Ossie (author award)
• Something on my mind / Feelings, Tom (illustrator award)
• Africa dream / Greenfield, Eloise (author award)
• The story of Stevie Wonder / Haskins, James (author award)
• Duey's tale / Bailey, Pearl (author award)
• The legend of Africania / Robinson, Dorothy W. (author award - not available in LINKcat)
• Ray Charles / Mathis, Sharon Bell (author award)
• I never had it made / Robinson, Jackie (author award)
• Seventeen Black artists / Fax, Elton C. (author award - not available in LINKcat)
• Black troubadour : Langston Hughes / Rollins, Charlemae Hill (author award)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. : man of peace / Patterson, Lillie (author award - not available in LINKcat)