Coretta Scott King Award Winners

Purpose
To encourage the artistic expression of the African American experience via literature and the graphic arts, including biographical, historical...more

Winners

	Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson 4.15 avg rating — 641 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author (and for Illustrator Honor) (2012)	My rating:
	Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack 4.29 avg rating — 168 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2012)	My rating:
	The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield 3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2012)	My rating:
	Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane W. Evans 3.92 avg rating — 226 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator (2012)	My rating:
	Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix by Gary Golio 3.99 avg rating — 146 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2011)	My rating:
	Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 1,007 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2011)	My rating:
	Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill 4.07 avg rating — 656 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator (2011)	My rating:
	Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 944 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2011)	My rating:
	One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia 3.95 avg rating — 3,228 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author (2011)	My rating:
	Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers 3.51 avg rating — 487 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2011)	My rating:
	The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes 4.34 avg rating — 183 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2010)	My rating:
	Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 4.07 avg rating — 444 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author (2010)	My rating:
	My People by Langston Hughes 4.21 avg rating — 191 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator (2010)	My rating:
	Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 291 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2010)	My rating:
	Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford 4.06 avg rating — 126 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2009)	My rating:
	Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford 3.96 avg rating — 114 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2009)	My rating:
	The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston 4.01 avg rating — 140 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2009)	My rating:
	Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith 3.94 avg rating — 105 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2009)	My rating:
	The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas 3.99 avg rating — 123 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator, Author Honor (2009)	My rating:
	We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson 4.28 avg rating — 1,012 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author, Illustrator Honor (2009)	My rating:
	Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals by Ashley Bryan 3.95 avg rating — 98 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator (2008)	My rating:
	Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis 3.91 avg rating — 3,200 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author (2008)	My rating:
	Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo Dillon 3.81 avg rating — 83 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2008)	My rating:
	The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy 4.04 avg rating — 91 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2008)	My rating:
	November Blues (Jericho, #2) by Sharon M. Draper 4.19 avg rating — 1,082 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2008)	My rating:
	Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr. 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2008)	My rating:
	Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford 4.34 avg rating — 925 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator (2007)	My rating:
	Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes by Benny Andrews 4.34 avg rating — 117 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2007)	My rating:
	Jazz by Walter Dean Myers 4.03 avg rating — 186 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor (2007)	My rating:
	The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes 3.87 avg rating — 363 ratings Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2007)	My rating: