2009-2000 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

2009

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball [1] written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson**
The Blacker the Berry [2] written and illustrated by Floyd Cooper**
Keeping the Night Watch [3] by Hope Anita Smith*
The Blacker the Berry [2] by Joyce Carol Thomas*
Becoming Billie Holiday [4] by Carole Boston Weatherford*
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball [1] written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson*
The Moon Over Star [5] 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 [6]by Christopher Paul Curtis**
Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan**
November Blues [7] by Sharon M. Draper
Twelve Rounds to Glory [8] by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy

2007

Copper Sun [9] by Sharon M. Draper**
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom [10]
by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Kadir Nelson**
Road to Paris [11] by Nikki Grimes
Jazz [12]by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

2006

Day of Tears: a Novel in Dialogue [13] by Julius Lester**
Rosa [14] by Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier**
Maritcha: a Nineteenth-Century American Girl [15] by Tonya Bolden
Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
A Wreath for Emmett Till [16] 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 [17] by Toni Morrison**
Ellington Was Not a Street [18] by Ntozake Shange and
illustrated by Kadir A. Nelson**
The Legend of Buddy Bush [19] by Shelia P. Moses
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives [20] by Sharon G. Flake
Fortune's Bones: the Manumission Requiem [21] by Marily Nelson
God Bless the Child [22] by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. and
illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales [23] by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

2004

The First Part Last [24] by Angela Johnson**
Beautiful Blackbird [25] by Ashley Bryan**
The Days of Jubilee: the End of Slavery in the United States [26]
by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
Locomotion [27] by Jacqueline Woodson
The Battle of Jericho [28] by Sharon Draper
Almost to Freedom [29] by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and
illustrated by Colin Bootman
Thunder Rose [30] by Jerdine Nolen and illustrated by Kadir Nelson

2003

Bronx Masquerade [31]
by Nikki Grimes**
Talkin' About Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman [32] 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 [33]
by Leo and Diane Dillion
Visiting Langston by Willie Perdomo and illustrated by Bryan Collier

2002

The Land [34]by Mildred D. Taylor**
Goin' Someplace Special [35] by Patricia McKissack and
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
Carver: a Life in Poems [36] by Marilyn Nelson
Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
Martin's Big Words [37] by Doreen Rappaport and
illustrated by Bryan Collier

2001

Miracle's Boys [38] by Jacqueline Woodson**
Uptown [39]by Bryan Collier**
Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters [40]
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Freedom River [41] by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier
Only Passing Through: the Story of Sojourner Truth [42]
by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys [43] by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard and Illustrated by E. B. Lewis

2000

Bud, Not Buddy [44] by Christopher Paul Curtis**
In the Time of the Drums [45] by Kim L. Siegelson and
illustrated by Brian Pinkney**
Francie [46] by Karen English
Black Hands, White Sails: the Story of African-American Whalers
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
Monster [47] 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

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