Teach with Coretta Scott King Award Winners
We've gathered the winners of the Corretta Scott King Awards, including this year's titles.
Many of these titles have online teaching plans, author biographies, and author interview transcripts.
| Year | Book Title | Lesson Ideas |
| 2007 | Author Award Winner | |
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom ill. by Kadir Nelson, text by Carole Boston Weatherford | ||
| 2006 | Author Award Winner | |
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Rosa ill. by Bryan Collier, text by Nikki Grimes | ||
| 2005 | Author Award Winner | |
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Ellington Was Not a Street, by Kadir Nelson | ||
| 2004 | Author Award Winner | |
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Beautiful Blackbird, by Ashley Bryan | ||
| 2003 | Author Award Winner | |
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, ill. by E.B. Lewis; text by Nikki Grimes | ||
| 2002 | Author Award Winner | |
The Land by Mildred Taylor | ||
| Mildred Taylor Collection | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Goin' Someplace Special, ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack | ||
| 2001 | Author Award Winner | |
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Uptown by Bryan Collier | ||
| 2000 | Author Award Winner | |
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
In the Time of the Drums, ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson | ||
| 1999 | Author Award Winner | |
Heaven by Angela Johnson | Author Biography
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| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
i see the rhythm, ill. by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus |
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| 1998 | Author Award Winner | |
Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, ill. by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder |
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| 1997 | Author Award Winner | |
Slam by Walter Dean Myers | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder |
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| 1996 | Author Award Winner | |
Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings |
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| 1995 | Author Award Winner | |
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
The Creation, ill. by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson | ||
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| 1994 | Author Award Winner | |
Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson | Author Biography
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| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Soul Looks Back in Wonder, ill. by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman | ||
| 1993 | Author Award Winner | |
Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, ill. by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA | ||
| 1992 | Author Award Winner | |
Now Is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold | ||
| 1991 | Author Award Winner | |
The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor | ||
| Mildred Taylor Collection | ||
| Illustrator Award Winner | ||
Aida, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price | ||
| 1990 | Author Award Winner | |
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack | Patricia C. McKissack's Biography | |
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Nathaniel Talking, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield | ||
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by Walter Dean MyersRichie Perry was seventeen and in trouble. There was no way he could afford college, and the streets were just too hard. He hadn't really given the army too much thought. It was enough that it would give him something to do and three meals a day. He just wanted to cool out till he got himself together. Basic training wasn't so hard. But there were things they didn't tell him in basic. They didn't tell him about Nam Rot, or napalm that sucked the air out of your lungs from a hundred yards away,
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