Coretta Scott King Award Winner Books (2023-1970)
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- 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)