1989-1980 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

1989

• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers**
• Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack and
  illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
• A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry
• Anthony Burns: the Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
  by Virginia Hamilton
• Under the Sunday Tree by Eloise Greenfield and
  illustrated by Amos Ferguson
• Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Pat Cummings

1988

• The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor**
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe**
• An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
• The Tales of Uncle Remus: the Adventures of Brer Rabbit
  by Julius Lester
• What a Morning! the Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
  selected by John Langstaff and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
• The Invisible Hunters: a Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua compiled by Harriet Rohmer and illustrated by Joe Sam

1987

• Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter**
• Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
• Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales
  by Ashley Bryan
• Which Way Freedon? by Joyce Hansen
• C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings

1986

• The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon**
• The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy and
  illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
• Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
• Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter

1985

• Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers**
• Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
• A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton

1984

• Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton**
• My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter and
  illustrated by Pat Cummings**
• The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
• Lena Horne by James Haskins
• Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas
• Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter

1983

• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton**
• Black Child by Peter Magubane**
• This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
• All the Colors of the Race by Arnold Adoff and illustrated by John Steptoe
• I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals by Ashley Bryan

1982

• Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor**
• Mother Crocodile: an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal by Rosa Guy and illustrated by John Steptoe**
• Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
• Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
• Mary: an Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane
• Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Tom Feelings

1981

• This Life by Sidney Poitier**
• Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan**
• Don't Explain: a Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux
• Grandmama's Joy by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Carole Byard
• Count on Your Fingers African Style by Claudia Zaslavsky and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

1980

• The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers**
• Cornrows by Camille Yarborough and illustrated by Carole Byard**
• Movin' Up by Berry Gordy
• Childtimes: a Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and
  Lessie Jones Little
• Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission by James Haskins
• James Van Der Zee: the Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins
• Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland

** award winner