Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
| Date | Title | Author and Illustrator |
| 2005 | Remember: The Journey to School Integration | Author - Toni Morrision |
| 2005 | Elllington Was Not a Street | Illustrator - Kadir Nelson |
| 2004 | The First Part Last | Author - Angela Johnson |
| 2004 | Beautiful Blackbird | Illustrator - Ashley Bryan |
| 2003 | Bronx Masquerade | Author - Nikki Grimes |
| 2003 | Talkin' about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman | Illustrator - E. B. Lewis |
| 2002 | The Land | Author - Mildren Taylor |
| 2002 | Goin' Someplace Special | Illustrator - Jerry Pinkney |
| 2001 | Miracle's Boys | Author - Jacqueline Woodsen |
| 2001 | Uptown | Illustrator - Bryan Collier |
| 2000 | Bud Not Buddy | Author - Christopher paul Curtis |
| 2000 | In the Time of teh Drums | Illustrator - Brian Pinkney |
| 1999 | Heaven | Author - Angela Johnson |
| 1999 | i see the rhythm | Illustration - Michele Wood |
| 1998 | Forged by Fire | Author - Sharon M. Draper |
| 1998 | In Daddy's Arms I am Tall | Illustrator - Javaka Steptoe |
| 1997 | Slam! | Author - Walter Dean Myers |
| 1997 | Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman | Illustrator - Jerry Pinkney |
| 1996 | Her Stories | Author - Virginia Hamilton, Illustrator Leo and Diane Dillon |
| 1996 | The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo | Illustrator - Tom Feelings |
| 1995 | Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters | Author -Christopher Paul Curtis |
| 1995 | The Creation | Illustrator - James E. Ransome |
| 1994 | Toning the Sweep | Author - Angela Johnson |
| 1994 | Soul Looks Back in Wonder | Illustrator -Tom Feelings |
| 1993 | Dark Thirty Southern Tales of the Supernatural | Author - Patricia McKissack |
| 1993 | The Origin of Life on Earth | Illustrator - Kathleen Atkins Wilson |
| 1992 | Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom | Author - Walter Dean Myers |
| 1992 | Tar Beach | Illustrator - Faith Ringhold |
| 1991 | Road to Memphis | Author - Mildred D. Taylor |
| 1991 | Aida | Illustrator - Diane and Leo Dillon |
| 1990 | Long Hard Journey | Author - Patricia and Frederick McKissack |
| 1990 | Nathaniel Talking | Illustrator - Jan S. Gilchrest |
| 1989 | Fallen Angels | Author - Walter Dean Myers |
| 1989 | Mirandy and Brother Wind | Author - Jerry Pinkney |
| 1988 | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | Author - John Steptoe |
| 1988 | What a Morning | Author - Ashley Bryan |
| 1987 | Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | Author - Mildred Pitts Walter |
| 1987 | Half a Moon and One Whole Star | Author - Crescent Dragonwagon, Illustrator - Jerry Pinkney |
| 1986 | The People Could Fly | Author - Virginia Hamilton |
| 1986 | Patchwork Quilt | Author - by Valerie Flournoy, Illustrator - Jerry Pinkney |
| 1985 | Motown and Didi | Author - Walter Dean Myers |
| 1984 | Everett Anderson's Goodbye | Author - Lucille Clifton |
| 1984 | Mama Needs Me | Author - Mildred Pitts Walter, Illustrator - Pat Cummings |
| 1983 | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Author - Virginia Hamilton |
| 1983 | Black Child | Author - Peter Magubane |
| 1982 | Let the Circle Be Unbroken | Author - Mildred Taylor |
| 1982 | Mother Crocodile | Author - Birago Diop, Illustrator - John Steptoe |
| 1981 | This Life | Author - Sidney Poitier |
| 1981 | Beat the Story- Drum, Pum-Pum | Author - Ashley Bryan |
| 1980 | Young Landlords | Author - Myers, Walter Dean |
| 1980 | Cornrows | Author - Camille Yarbrough, Illustrator - Carole Byard |
| 1979 | Escape to Freedom | Author - Davis, Ossie |
| 1979 | Something on My Mind | Author - Tom Feelings |
| 1978 | The Africa Dream | Author - Eloise Greenfiel, and Cole Byard |
| 1977 | The Story of Stevie Wonder | Author - Jame sHaskins |
| 1976 | Duey's Tale | Author - Pearl Bailey |
| 1975 | The Legend of Africania | Author - Dorothy Robinson and Herbert Temple |
| 1974 | Ray Charles | Author - Sharon Bell Mathi and George Ford |
| 1973 | I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson | Author - Alfred Duckett |
| 1972 | Seventeen Black Artists | Author - Elton C. Fax |
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