Coretta Scott King Award Winners, 1970-1989

Year Book Title
Lesson Ideas
   
1989 Author Award Winner  
 

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

 Walter Dean Myers Collection 
   
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 

Mirandy and Brother Wind, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack

 
   
1988 Author Award Winner  
 

The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor

 
 Mildred Taylor Collection 
   
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe

Teaching Plan 

 
1987 Author Award Winner  
 

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter

 
 
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 Half a Moon and One Whole Star, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon 

 

  
1986 Author Award Winner  
 The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon

 

   
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 

The Patchwork Quilt, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy

 
   
1985 Author Award Winner  
 

Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers

 Illustrator Award Winner 
 

No award

 
   
1984 Author Award Winner  
 

Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton

 
 
 

Special Citation:

 
 The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, compiler 
   
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 

My Mama Needs Me, ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter

 
 
1983 Author Award Winner  
 

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

 

 Illustrator Award Winner 
 

Black Child by Peter Mugabane

 
   
1982 Author Award Winner  
 

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor

 
 Illustrator Award Winner 
 

Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, ill. by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy

 
 
1981 Author Award Winner  
 

This Life by Sidney Poitier

 
 Illustrator Award Winner 
 

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan

 
   
1980 Author Award Winner  
 

The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers  

 
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 

Cornrows, ill. by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough

 
   
1979 Author Award Winner  
 

Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis

 
   
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 

Something on My Mind, ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes

 
 
1978 Author Award Winner  
 

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield; ill. by Carole Bayard

   
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 

Africa Dream, ill. by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield

   
1977 Author Award Winner  
 The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins 
 
1976 Author Award Winner  
 Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey 
 
1975 Author Award Winner  
 The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson 
 
1974 Author Award Winner  
 Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; ill. by George Ford 
   
 Illustrator Award Winner  
 Ray Charles, ill. by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis 
 
 

(Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only)

 
 
1973Author Award Winner  
I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett

 

 
1972Author Award Winner  
 

17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax

 
 
1971

Author Award Winner

 
 

Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins

 
   
1970Author Award Winner  
 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson

 

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