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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