2009-2000 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

2009

• We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson**
• The Blacker the Berry written and illustrated by Floyd Cooper**
• Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith*
• The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas*
• Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford*
• We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson*
• The Moon Over Star by Diana Hutts Aston and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney*
• Before John Was a Jazz Giant written and illustrated by Sean Qualls*

2008

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis**
• Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan**
• November Blues by Sharon M. Draper
• Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
• The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy

2007

• Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper**
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
  by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Kadir Nelson**
• Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
• Jazz by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers
• Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

2006

• Day of Tears: a Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester**
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier**
• Maritcha: a Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
• Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
• A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
• Brothers in Hope: the Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
  by R. Gregory Christie

2005

• Remember: the Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison**
• Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange and
  illustrated by Kadir A. Nelson**
• The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
• Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake
• Fortune's Bones: the Manumission Requiem by Marily Nelson
• God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. and
  illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
• The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

2004

• The First Part Last by Angela Johnson**
• Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan**
• The Days of Jubilee: the End of Slavery in the United States
  by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
• Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
• Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and
  illustrated by Colin Bootman
• Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen and illustrated by Kadir Nelson

2003

• Bronx Masquerade
  by Nikki Grimes**
• Talkin' About Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by
  Nikki Grimes and illustrated by E. B. Lewis**
• The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
• Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That
  by Leo and Diane Dillion
• Visiting Langston by Willie Perdomo and illustrated by Bryan Collier

2002

• The Land by Mildred D. Taylor**
• Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack and
  illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
• Carver: a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
• Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
• Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and
  illustrated by Bryan Collier

2001

• Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson**
• Uptown by Bryan Collier**
• Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
  by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier
• Only Passing Through: the Story of Sojourner Truth
  by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
• Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard and Illustrated by E. B. Lewis

2000

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis**
• In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson and
  illustrated by Brian Pinkney**
• Francie by Karen English
• Black Hands, White Sails: the Story of African-American Whalers
  by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa M. Mollel and
  illustrated by E. B. Lewis
• Black Cat by Christopher Myers

** award winner