1999-1990 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

1999

• Heaven by Angela Johnson**
• I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus and illustrated by Michele Wood**
• Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
• Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: the Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan
• The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson
• I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas and
  illustrated by Floyd Cooper
• The Bat Boy and His Violin by Gavin Curtis and illustrated by E. B. Lewis
• Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
  by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney

1998

• Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper**
• In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Alan Schroeder and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe**
• Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
  by James Haskins
• I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: the Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
  by Joyce Hansen
• Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan
• Harlem: a Poem by Walter Dean Myers and
  illustrated by Christopher Myers
• The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wagué Diakité

1997

• Slam! by Walter Dean Myers**
• Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder and
  illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
• Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
  by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
• The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children by Davida Adedjouma and illustrated by Gregorie Christie
• Running the Road to ABC by Denize Lauture and
  illustrated by Reynold Ruffins
• Neeny Coming, Neeny Going by Karen English and
  illustrated by Synthia Saint James

1996

• Her Stories: African American Foltales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
  by Virginia Hamilton**
• The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings**
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
• From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Faithful Friend by Robert San Souci and
  illustrated by Brian Pinkney

1995

• Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
  by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack**
• The Creation by James Weldon Johnson and
  illustrated by James Ransome**
• The Captive by Joyce Hansen
• I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
• Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League
  by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
• The Singing Man by Angela Shelf Medearis and
  illustrated by Terea Shaffer
• Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Floyd Cooper

1994

• Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson**
• Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Phyllis Fogelman and
  illustrated by Tom Feelings**
• Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas
• Malcom X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
• Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell and
  illustrated by James Ransom

1993

• Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
  by Patricia A. McKissack**
• The Origin of life on Earth: an African Creation Myth by David Anderson and illustrated by Kathleen Atkins**
• Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter
• Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
  Patrica C. and Frederick L. McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
• Little Eight John by Jan Wahl and illustrated by Wil Clay
• Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert San Souci and
  illustrated by Brian Pinkney
• Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams and illustrted by Carole Byard

1992

• Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom
  by Walter Dean Myers**
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold**
• Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield and
  illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
• All Night, All Day: a Child's First Book of African American Spirituals written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan

1991

• The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor**
• Aida by Leontyne Price and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon**
• Black Dance in America by James Haskins
• When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson

1990

• A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack**
• Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated
  by Jan Spivey Gilchrist**
• The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson
• The Talking Eggs by Robert San Souci and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney 

** award winner