Award-Winning Authors 1970–2008 |
| Adoff, Jaime |
|
Jimi & Me |
New Talent |
2006 |
| Angelou, Maya |
|
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Honor |
1971 |
| Bailey, Pearl |
|
Duey’s Tale |
Winner |
1976 |
| Berry, James |
|
A Thief in the Village and Other Stories |
Honor |
1989 |
| Bolden, Tonya |
|
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl |
Honor |
2006 |
| Blake, Clarence |
|
Quiz Book on Black America |
Honor |
1977 |
| Boyd, Candy Dawson |
|
Circle of Gold |
Honor |
1985 |
| Bryan, Ashley |
|
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales |
Honor |
1987 |
| Bush, Terri |
|
The Voice of the Children |
Honor |
1971 |
| Childress, Alice |
|
Rainbow Jordan |
Honor |
1982 |
|
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich |
Honor |
1974 |
| Chisholm, Shirley |
|
Unbought and Unbossed |
Honor |
1971 |
| Clifton, Lucille |
|
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye |
Winner |
1984 |
|
Everett Anderson’s Friend |
Honor |
1977 |
|
Don’t You Remember? |
Honor |
1974 |
| Crane, Louise |
|
Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women |
Honor |
1974 |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul |
|
Bud, Not Buddy |
Winner |
2000 |
|
Elijah of Buxton |
Winner |
2008 |
|
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 |
Honor |
1996 |
| Davis, Ossie |
|
Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass |
Winner |
1979 |
| DeVeaux, Alexis |
|
An Enchanted Hair Tale |
Honor |
1988 |
|
Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holliday |
Honor |
1981 |
| Draper, Sharon |
|
Copper Sun |
Winner |
2007 |
|
The Battle of Jericho |
Honor |
2004 |
|
Forged by Fire |
Winner |
1998 |
|
November Blues |
Honor |
2008 |
|
Tears of a Tiger |
New Talent |
1995 |
| Duckett, Aldred |
|
I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson |
Winner |
1973 |
| English, Karen |
|
Francie |
Honor |
2000 |
| Evans, Mari |
|
I Am a Black Woman |
Honor |
1971 |
| Faulkner, William J. |
|
The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be |
Honor |
1978 |
| Fax, Elton |
|
17 Black Artists |
Winner |
1972 |
| Fenner, Carol |
|
The Skates of Uncle Richard |
Honor |
1979 |
| Flake, Sharon |
|
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives |
Honor |
2005 |
|
Money-Hungry |
Honor |
2002 |
|
The Skin I’m In |
New Talent |
1999 |
| Frazier, Sundee T. |
|
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It |
New Talent |
2008 |
| Glass, Frankcina |
|
Marvin and Tige |
Honor |
1978 |
| Gordy, Berry, Sr. |
|
Movin’ on Up: Pop Gordy Tells His Story |
Honor |
1980 |
| Graham, Lorenz |
|
Every Man Heart Lay Down |
Honor |
1971 |
| Graham, Shirley |
|
Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa |
Honor |
1976 |
| Greenfield, Eloise |
|
Night on Neighborhood Street |
Honor |
1992 |
|
Nathaniel Talking |
Honor |
1990 |
|
Child Times: A Three-Generation Memoir |
Honor |
1980 |
|
Africa Dream |
Winner |
1978 |
|
Mary McLeod Bethune |
Honor |
1978 |
|
Paul Robeson |
Honor |
1976 |
| Grimes, Nikki |
|
The Road to Paris |
Honor |
2007 |
|
Bronx Masquerade |
Winner |
2003 |
|
Dark Sons |
Honor |
2006 |
|
Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman |
Honor |
2003 |
|
Jazmin’s Notebook |
Honor |
1999 |
| Groom, Gladys |
|
Black Means . . . |
Honor |
1971 |
| Grossman, Barney |
|
Black Means . . . |
Honor |
1971 |
| Hamilton, Virginia |
|
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales |
Winner |
1996 |
|
The Bells of Christmas |
Honor |
1990 |
|
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave |
Honor |
1989 |
|
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
Winner |
1986 |
|
Junius over Far |
Honor |
1986 |
|
A Little Love |
Honor |
1985 |
|
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl |
Honor |
1984 |
|
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush |
Winner |
1983 |
|
Justice and Her Brothers |
Honor |
1979 |
| Hansen, Joyce |
|
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground |
Honor |
1999 |
|
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl |
Honor |
1998 |
|
The Captive |
Honor |
1995 |
|
Which Way Freedom? |
Honor |
1987 |
| Haskins, James |
|
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement |
Honor |
1998 |
|
Black Dance in America: A History through Its People |
Honor |
1991 |
|
Lena Horne |
Honor |
1984 |
|
Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission |
Honor |
1980 |
|
James Van DerZee: The Picture Takin’ Man |
Honor |
1980 |
|
Barbara Jordan |
Honor |
1978 |
|
The Story of Stevie Wonder |
Winner |
1977 |
| Hathaway, Barbara |
|
Missy Violet and Me |
New Talent |
2005 |
| Hunter, Kristin |
|
Lou in the Limelight |
Honor |
1982 |
|
Guests in the Promised Land |
Honor |
1974 |
| Johnson, Angela |
|
The First Part Last |
Winner |
2004 |
|
Heaven |
Winner |
1999 |
|
The Other Side |
Honor |
1999 |
|
Toning the Sweep |
Winner |
1994 |
|
When I Am Old with You |
Honor |
1991 |
| Jones, Traci L. |
|
Standing Against the Wind |
New Talent |
2007 |
| Jordan, June |
|
The Voice of the Children |
Honor |
1971 |
| Lester, Julius |
|
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit |
Honor |
1988 |
|
This Strange New Feeling |
Honor |
1983 |
|
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue |
Winner |
2006 |
| Little, Lessie Jones |
|
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir |
Honor |
1980 |
| McDonald, Janet |
|
Chill Wind |
New Talent |
2003 |
| McGowan, Gary |
|
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground |
Honor |
1999 |
| McKissack, Patricia |
|
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural |
Winner |
1993 |
| McKissack, Patricia C., and Fredrick L. McKissack |
|
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States |
Honor |
2004 |
|
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers |
Honor |
2000 |
|
Rebels against Slavery: American Slave Revolts |
Honor |
1997 |
|
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters |
Winner |
1995 |
|
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman |
Honor |
1993 |
|
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter |
Winner |
1990 |
| McKissack, Patricia, and Fredrick McKissack Jr. |
|
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues |
Honor |
1995 |
| Martin, Donald F. |
|
Quiz Book on Black America |
Honor |
1977 |
| Mathis, Sharon Bell |
|
Ray Charles |
Winner |
1974 |
| Mebane, Mary E. |
|
Mary: An Autobiography |
Honor |
1982 |
| Morrison, Toni |
|
Remember: The Journey to School Integration |
Winner |
2005 |
| Moses, Sheila P. |
|
The Legend of Buddy Bush
|
Honor |
2005 |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
|
Monster |
Honor |
2000 |
|
Slam! |
Winner |
1997 |
|
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary |
Honor |
1994 |
|
Somewhere in the Darkness |
Honor |
1993 |
|
Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom |
Winner |
1992 |
|
Fallen Angels |
Winner |
1989 |
|
Motown and Didi: A Love Story |
Winner |
1985 |
|
The Young Landlords |
Winner |
1980 |
|
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff |
Honor |
1976 |
| Nagenda, John |
|
Mukasa |
Honor |
1974 |
| Nelson, Marilyn |
|
A Wreath for Emmett Till |
Honor |
2006 |
|
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem |
Honor |
2005 |
|
Carver: A Life in Poems |
Honor |
2002 |
| Patterson, Lillie |
|
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement |
Honor |
1990 |
|
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America |
Honor |
1979 |
|
Coretta Scott King |
Honor |
1978 |
|
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace |
Winner |
1970 |
| Peters, Margaret |
|
The Ebony Book of Black Achievement |
Honor |
1971 |
| Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse |
|
I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf |
Honor |
1979 |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
|
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters |
Honor |
2001 |
| Poitier, Sidney |
|
This Life |
Winner |
1981 |
| Robinson, Dorothy |
|
The Legend of Africania |
Winner |
1975 |
| Rollins, Charlemae |
|
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes |
Winner |
1971 |
| Smith, Charles R., Jr. |
|
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali |
Honor |
2008 |
| Smith, Hope Anita |
|
The Way a Door Closes |
New Talent |
2004 |
| Southerland, Ellease |
|
Let the Lion Eat Straw |
Honor |
1980 |
| Southgate, Martha |
|
Another Way to Dance |
New Talent |
1997 |
| Stewart, Ruth Ann |
|
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington |
Honor |
1978 |
| Taylor, Mildred |
|
The Land |
Winner |
2002 |
|
The Road to Memphis |
Winner |
1991 |
|
The Friendship |
Winner |
1988 |
|
Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
Winner |
1982 |
|
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Honor |
1977 |
|
Song of the Trees |
Honor |
1977 |
| Thomas, Joyce Carol |
|
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea |
Honor |
1994 |
|
Bright Shadow |
Honor |
1984 |
| Udry, Janice |
|
Mary Jo’s Grandmother |
Honor |
1971 |
| Walter, Mildred Pitts |
|
Mississippi Challenge |
Honor |
1993 |
|
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World |
Winner |
1987 |
|
Trouble’s Child |
Honor |
1986 |
|
Because We Are |
Honor |
1984 |
| Williams-Garcia, Rita |
|
Like Sisters on the Home Front |
Honor |
1996 |
| Woods, Brenda |
|
The Red Rose Box |
Honor |
2003 |
| Woodson, Jacqueline |
|
Locomotion |
Honor |
2004 |
|
Miracle’s Boys |
Winner |
2001 |
|
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
Honor |
1996 |
|
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This |
Honor |
1995 |
Award-Winning Illustrators 1970–2008 |
| Andrews, Benny |
|
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes |
Honor |
2007 |
| Bootman, Colin |
|
Almost to Freedom |
Honor |
2004 |
| Brown, Elbrite |
|
My Family Plays Music |
New Talent |
2004 |
| Bryan, Ashley |
|
Let It Shine |
Winner |
2008 |
|
Beautiful Blackbird |
Winner |
2004 |
|
Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry |
Honor |
1998 |
|
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals |
Honor |
1992 |
|
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals |
Honor |
1988 |
|
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales |
Honor |
1987 |
|
I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals |
Honor |
1983 |
|
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum |
Winner |
1981 |
| Byard, Carole |
|
Working Cotton |
Honor |
1993 |
|
Grandma’s Joy |
Honor |
1981 |
|
Cornrows |
Winner |
1980 |
|
Africa Dream |
Winner |
1978 |
| Christie, R. Gregory |
|
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan |
Honor |
2006 |
|
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth |
Honor |
2001 |
|
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children |
Honor |
1997 |
| Clay, Wil |
|
Little Eight John |
Honor |
1993 |
| Collier, Bryan |
|
Rosa |
Winner |
2006 |
|
Visiting Langston |
Honor |
2003 |
|
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
Honor |
2002 |
|
Uptown |
Winner |
2001 |
|
Freedom River |
Honor |
2001 |
| Cooper, Floyd |
|
I Have Heard of a Land |
Honor |
1999 |
|
Meet Danitra Brown |
Honor |
1995 |
|
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea |
Honor |
1994 |
| Cummings, Pat |
|
Storm in the Night |
Honor |
1989 |
|
C.L.O.U.D.S |
Honor |
1987 |
|
My Mama Needs Me |
Winner |
1984 |
|
Just Us Women |
Honor |
1983 |
| Devard, Nancy |
|
The Secret Olivia Told Me |
Honor |
2008 |
| Diakité, Baba Wagué |
|
The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale |
Honor |
1998 |
| Dillon, Leo and Diane |
|
Jazz on a Saturday Night |
Honor |
2008 |
|
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book |
Honor |
2005 |
|
Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That! |
Honor |
2003 |
|
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales |
Honor |
1996 |
|
Aïda |
Winner |
1991 |
|
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
Honor |
1986 |
| DuBurke, Randy |
|
The Moon Ring |
New Talent |
2003 |
| Feelings, Tom |
|
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo |
Winner |
1996 |
|
Soul Looks Back in Wonder |
Winner |
1994 |
|
Daydreamers |
Honor |
1982 |
|
Something’s on My Mind |
Winner |
1979 |
| Ferguson, Mr. Amos |
|
Under the Sunday Tree |
Honor |
1989 |
| Ford, George |
|
Ray Charles |
Winner |
1974 |
| Gilchrist, Jan Spivey |
|
Night on Neighborhood Street |
Honor |
1992 |
|
Nathaniel Talking |
Winner |
1990 |
| JoeSam. |
|
The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua/
Los Cazadores Invisibles: Una Leyenda de los Indios Miskitos de Nicaragua |
Honor |
1988 |
| Lagarrigue, Jerome |
|
Freedom Summer |
New Talent |
2002 |
| Lewis, E. B. |
|
Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman |
Winner |
2003 |
|
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys |
Honor |
2001 |
|
My Rows and Piles of Coins |
Honor |
2000 |
|
The Bat Boy and His Violin |
Honor |
1999 |
| Magubane, Peter |
|
Black Child |
Winner |
1983 |
| Morrison, Frank |
|
Jazzy Miz Mozetta |
New Talent |
2005 |
| Myers, Christopher |
|
Jazz |
Honor |
2007 |
|
Black Cat |
Honor |
2000 |
|
Harlem |
Honor |
1998 |
| Nelson, Kadir |
|
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom |
Winner |
2007 |
|
Ellington Was Not a Street |
Winner |
2005 |
|
Thunder Rose |
Honor |
2004 |
| Pinkney, Brian |
|
In the Time of the Drums |
Winner |
2000 |
|
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra |
Honor |
1999 |
|
The Faithful Friend |
Honor |
1996 |
|
Sukey and the Mermaid |
Honor |
1993 |
| Pinkney, Jerry |
|
God Bless the Child |
Honor |
2005 |
|
Goin’ Someplace Special |
Winner |
2002 |
|
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
Winner |
1997 |
|
The Talking Eggs |
Honor |
1990 |
|
Mirandy and Brother Wind |
Winner |
1989 |
|
Half a Moon and One Whole Star |
Winner |
1987 |
|
The Patchwork Quilt |
Winner |
1986 |
|
Count on Your Fingers African Style |
Honor |
1981 |
| Ransome, James E. |
|
The Creation |
Winner |
1995 |
|
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop |
Honor |
1994 |
| Ringgold, Faith |
|
Tar Beach |
Winner |
1992 |
| Ruffins, Reynolds |
|
Running the Road to ABC |
Honor |
1997 |
| Saint James, Synthia |
|
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going |
Honor |
1997 |
| Shaffer, Terea |
|
The Singing Man |
Honor |
1995 |
| Shange, Ntozake |
|
Ellington Was Not a Street |
Winner |
2005 |
| Steptoe, Javaka |
|
In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers |
Winner |
1998 |
| Steptoe, John |
|
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale |
Winner |
1988 |
|
All the Colors of the Race |
Honor |
1983 |
|
Mama Crocodile. Maman-Caiman |
Winner |
1982 |
| Velasquez, Eric |
|
The Piano Man |
New Talent |
1999 |
| Wilson, Kathleen Atkins |
|
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth |
Winner |
1993 |
| Wood, Michele |
|
I See the Rhythm |
Winner |
1999 |
