Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator

Awards List

2022

We Wait for the Sun
(Honor Book)
Katie McCabe

Soul Food Sunday
(Honor Book)
Winsome Bingham

2021

Magnificent Homespun Brown
(Honor Book)
Samara Cole Doyon

Me & Mama
(Honor Book)
Cozbi A. Cabrera

2019

Let the Children March
(Honor Book)
Monica Clark-Robinson

2017

Radiant Child
(Winner)
Javaka Steptoe

Freedom Over Me
(Honor Book)
Ashley Bryan

In Plain Sight
(Honor Book)
Richard Jackson

2016

Last Stop on Market Street
(Honor Book)
Matt De La Pena

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
(Honor Book)
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

2015

Firebird
(Winner)
Misty Copeland

2014

Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
(Winner)
Daniel Beaty

2013

I, Too, Am America
(Winner)
Langston Hughes

Ellen's Broom
(Honor Book)
Kelly Starling Lyons

H.O.R.S.E.
(Honor Book)
Christopher Myers

2012

Underground
(Winner)
Shane W. Evans

2010

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
(Honor Book)
Langston Hughes

2009

The Moon Over Star
(Honor Book)
Dianna Hutts Aston

2007

Moses
(Winner)
Carole Boston Weatherford

Jazz
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

2006

Brothers in Hope
(Honor Book)
Mary Williams

2005

Ellington Was Not a Street
(Winner)
Ntozake Shange

The People Could Fly
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton

2004

Beautiful Blackbird
(Winner)
Ashley Bryan

2003

Talkin' about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
(Winner)
Nikki Grimes

Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That!
(Honor Book)
Leo Dillon; Diane Dillon

2002

Goin' Someplace Special
(Winner)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

2001

Uptown
(Winner)
Bryan Collier

Virgie Goes To School With Us Boys
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

2000

My Rows and Piles of Coins
(Honor Book)
Tololwa Mollel

1999

The Bat Boy and His Violin
(Honor Book)
Gavin Curtis

1998

Harlem
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

1997

Running the Road to ABC
(Honor Book)
Denize Lauture

1996

Faithful Friend
(Honor Book)
Robert D. San Souci

Her Stories
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton

1995

Meet Danitra Brown
(Honor Book)
Nikki Grimes

1994

Uncle Jed's Barbershop
(Honor Book)
Margaree King Mitchell

Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
(Honor Book)
Joyce Carol Thomas

1993

Working Cotton
(Honor Book)
Sherley Anne Williams

Sukey and the Mermaid
(Honor Book)
Robert D. San Souci

1992

Tar Beach
(Winner)
Faith Ringgold

1990

The Talking Eggs
(Honor Book)
Robert D. San Souci

1989

Mirandy and Brother Wind
(Winner)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

Storm in the Night
(Honor Book)
Mary Stolz

1988

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
(Winner)
John Steptoe

1986

The Patchwork Quilt
(Winner)
Valerie Flournoy

The People Could Fly
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton

1983

Just Us Women
(Honor Book)
Jeannette Caines

1982

Daydreamers
(Honor Book)
Puffin

1981

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
(Winner)
Ashley Bryan

Grandmama's Joy
(Honor Book)
Eloise Greenfield
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1980

Cornrows
(Winner)
Camille Yarbrough

1978

Africa Dream
(Winner)
Eloise Greenfield

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