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1999-1990 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

1999

  • Heaven [1] by Angela Johnson**
  • I See the Rhythm [2] 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 [3] by Angela Johnson
  • I Have Heard of a Land [4] by Joyce Carol Thomas and
    illustrated by Floyd Cooper
  • The Bat Boy and His Violin [5] by Gavin Curtis and illustrated by E. B. Lewis
  • Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra [6]
    by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney

1998

  • Forged by Fire [7] by Sharon M. Draper**
  • In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers [8] 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 [9]
    by Joyce Hansen
  • Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry [10] by Ashley Bryan
  • Harlem: a Poem [11] by Walter Dean Myers and
    illustrated by Christopher Myers
  • The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wagué Diakité

1997

  • Slam! [12] by Walter Dean Myers**
  • Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman [13] by Alan Schroeder and
    illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
  • Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts [14]
    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 [15]
    by Virginia Hamilton**
  • The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo [16] by Tom Feelings**
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 [17] 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 [18]by Robert San Souci and
    illustrated by Brian Pinkney

1995

  • Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters [19]
    by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack**
  • The Creation [20] 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 [21]
    by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
  • The Singing Man by Angela Shelf Medearis and
    illustrated by Terea Shaffer
  • Meet Danitra Brown [22] by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Floyd Cooper

1994

  • Toning the Sweep [23] 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 [24] 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 [25]
    by Patricia A. McKissack**
  • The Origin of life on Earth: an African Creation Myth by David Anderson and illustrated by Kathleen Atkins**
  • Mississippi Challenge [26] by Mildred Pitts Walter
  • Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? [27]
    Patrica C. and Frederick L. McKissack
  • Somewhere in the Darkness [28] 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 [29] 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 [30] 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 [31] 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 [32]by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack**
  • Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated
    by Jan Spivey Gilchrist**
  • The Bells of Christmas [33] by Virginia Hamilton
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson
  • The Talking Eggs [34] by Robert San Souci and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney 
** award winner

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