- CSK Cumulative Citations: 2019-2010

[Jack]

2016 Author Award
Rita Williams-Garcia , author of Gone Crazy in Alabama , published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

2016 Illustrator Award Winner
Bryan Collier , illustrator of Trombone Shorty , written by Troy Andrews and Bill Taylor and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.

2016 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)
Ronald L. Smith , author of Hoodoo , published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
2016 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator)
Ekua Holmes, illustrator of Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Candlewick Press.

2016 Author Honor Books
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely , authors of All American Boys published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.
Jason Reynolds , the author of The Boy in the Black Suit , published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.
Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon , authors of X: A Novel , published by Candlewick Press.

2016 Illustrator Honor Books
R. Gregory Christie , illustrator of The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore , written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and published by Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
Christian Robinson , illustrator of Last Stop on Market Street , written by Matt de la Pena and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group USA. (Also won the 2016 Newbery Medal, 2016 Caldecott Honor!)

2016 Virginia Hamilton Award for Life Achievement: Jerry Pinkney
(he also received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award!)

2015 Author Award
Jacqueline Woodson , author of brown girl dreaming , published by Nancy Paulson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group, Penguin Group (USA) LLC.

2015 Illustrator Award Winner
Christopher Myers , illustrator of Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Young Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird , written by Misty Copeland and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Penguin Group USA.

2015 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (for more information about John Steptoe see: http://www.johnsteptoe.com/)
Jason Reynolds , author of When I Was the Greatest , published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.

2015 Author Honor Books
Kwame Alexander , author of The Crossover and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Marilyn Nelson , author of How I Discovered Poetry , illustrated by Hadley Hooper and published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
Kekla Magoon , author of How It Went Down , and published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

2015 Illustrator Honor Books
Christian Robinson , illustrator of Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker , written by Patricia Hruby Powell and published by Chronicle Books LLC.
Frank Morrison , illustrator of Little Melba and Her Big Trombone , written by Katheryn Russell-Brown and published by Lee and Low Books, Inc.

2014 Author Award Winner
Rita Williams-Garcia , author of P.S. Be Eleven , published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

2014 Illustrator Award Winner
Bryan Collier , illustrator of Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me , written by Daniel Beaty and published by Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group.

2014 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Theodore Taylor III , illustrator of for When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop , written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership.

2014 Author Honor
John Robert Lewis and Andrew Aydin , authors of March: Book One , illustrated by Nate Powell, and published by Top Shelf Productions.
Walter Dean Myers , author of Darius & Twig , published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher.
Nikki Grimes , author of Words with Wings , published by WordSong, an imprint of Highlights.

2014 Illustrator Honor
Kadir Nelson , illustrator and author of Nelson Mandela , published by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

2013 Author Award Winner
Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America , published by Disney/Jump at the Sun Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group.

2013 Illustrator Award WinnerBryan Collier, illustrator of I, Too, Am America, poem by Langston Hughes, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.

2013 Author Honor
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Each Kindness, illustrated by E. B. Lewis, and published by Nancy Paulsen Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, author of No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller, Harlem Bookseller, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, and published by Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

2013 Illustrator Honor
Daniel Minter, illustrator of Ellen's Broom, written by Kelly Starling Lyons, and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Christopher Myers, illustrator and author of H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination, published by Egmont USA
Kadir Nelson, illustrator of I Have a Dream, written by Martin Luther King Jr., and published by Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

2013 John Steptoe Award for New Talent - No award presented

2013 Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Demetria Tucker, Family and youth services librarian for the Pearl Bailey Library, a branch of the Newport News (Va.) Public Library System

2012 Author Award Winner
Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

2012 Illustrator Award Winner
Shane W. Evans, author and illustrator of Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom (A Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership)

2012 Author HonorEloise Greenfield, author of The Great Migration: Journey to the North, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Patricia C. McKissack, Never Forgotten, illustrated by Leo Dillon andDiane Dillon (Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.)

2012 Illustrator Honor
Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

2012 John Steptoe Award for New Talent - No award presented.

2012 Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Ashley Bryan, storyteller, artist, author, poet, and musician.

2011 Author Award Winner
Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

2011 Illustrator Award Winner
Bryan Collier, illustrator of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)

2011 Author Honor
Walter Dean Myers, author of Lockdown (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Ninth Ward (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)
G. Neri, author of Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, illustrated by Randy DuBurke (Lee & Low Books, Inc.)

2011 Illustrator Honor
Javaka Steptoe, author of Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, written by Gary Golio (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

2011 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, authors of Zora and Me (Candlewick Press)
Sonia Lynn Sadler, illustrator of Seeds of Change, written by Jen Cullerton Johnson (Lee & Low Books, Inc.)

2011 Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, professor emerita at the University of South Florida, Tampa, School of Library and Information Science

2010 Author Award Winner
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, author of Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.).

2010 Illustrator Award Winner
Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrator of My People, text Langston Hughes (ginee seo books, Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

2010 Author Honor
Tanita S. Davis, author of Mare's War (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.)

2010 Illustrator Honor
E.B. Lewis, illustrator of The Negro Speaks of Rivers; text by Langston Hughes (Disney - Jump at the Sun Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group)

2010 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Kekla Magoon, author of The Rock and the River (Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)

2010 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement (inaugural year)
Walter Dean Myers, author

[Jack]

I will be updating this list through 2019 when the 2019 awards announcements are made in late January 2019 at the ALA Mid-Winter Conference in Seatle.
The Youth Media Awards are usually broadcast online. I will post the link for the broadcast when available.
- Jack