| YEAR | AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR | TITLE | ORDER |
| 2005 | See 2005 Awards | ||
| 2004 | See 2004 Awards | ||
| 2003 | See 2003 Awards | ||
| 2002 | See 2002 Awards | ||
| 2001 | Author: Jacqueline
Woodson
Illustrator: Bryan Collier |
Miracle's Boys
Uptown |
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| Author
Honor: Andrea Davis Pinkney - Let
It Shine!: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Illustrator Honor: Bryan Collier - Freedom River Illustrator Honor: E. B. Lewis - Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys Illustrator Honor: Gregory Christie - Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth |
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| 2000 | Author: Christopher
Paul Curtis
Illustrator: Brian Pinkney |
Bud
Not Buddy
In the Time of the Drums |
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| Author
Honor: Karen English - Francie
Author Honor: Patricia McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack - Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African American Whalers Author Honor: Walter Dean Myers - Monster Illustrator Honor: E. B. Lewis - My Rows and Piles of Coins Illustrator Honor: Christopher Myers - Black Cat |
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| 1999 | Author: Angela
Johnson
Illustrator: Michele Wood |
Heaven
I See Rhythm |
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| Author Honor--Nikki
Grimes - Jazmin's
Notebook
Author Honor: Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan - Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground Illustrator Honor: Floyd Cooper - I Have Heard of a Land Illustrator Honor: E.B. Lewis - The Bat Boy and His Violin Illustrator Honor: Brian Pinkney - Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra |
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| 1998 | Author: Sharon
M. Draper
Illustrator: Javaka Steptoe |
Forged by Fire
In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers |
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| Author Honor: James
Haskins - Bayard
Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights
Movement Author Honor: Joyce Hansen - I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl Illustrator Honor: Diakite, Baba Wague - The Hunterman and the Crocodile Illustrator Honor: Bryan, Ashley - Ashley Bryan's ABC of African Poetry Illustrator Honor: Myers, Christopher - Harlem |
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| 1997 | Author: Walter
Dean Myers
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney |
Slam
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
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| 1996 | Author: Virginia
Hamilton
Illustrator: Tom Feelings |
Her Stories:
African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Middle Passage: White/Black Cargo |
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| 1995 | Author: Patricia
& Frederick McKissack
Illustrator: James Weldon Johnson |
Christmas in
the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
Creation |
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| 1994 | Author: Angela
Johnson
Illustrator: Tom Feelings |
Toning the Sweep
Soul Looks Back in Wonder, Collection of African-American Poets |
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| 1993 | Author: Mildred
Pitts Walter
Illustrator: Kathleen Atkins Wilson |
Mississippi Challenge
Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creatio Myth |
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| 1992 | Author: Walter
Dean Myers
Illustrator: Faith Ringgold |
Now is Your Time:
The Africian American Struggle for Freedom
Tar Beach |
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| 1991 | Author: Mildred
D. Taylor
Illustrator: Leo & Diane Dillon [see also] |
Road to Memphis
Aida |
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| 1990 | Author: Patricia
& Fredrick McKissack
Illustrator: |
Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter | @amazon
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| 1989 | Author: Walter
Dean Myers
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney |
Fallen Angels
Mirandy & Brother Wind |
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| 1988 | Author: Taylor,
Mildred D.
Illustrator: Steptoe, John |
Friendship
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters |
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| 1987 | Author: Mildred
Pitts Walter
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney |
Justin and the
Best Biscuits in the World
Half a Moon and One Whole Star |
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| 1986 | Author: Virginia
Hamilton
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney |
People Could
Fly: American Black Folktales
Patchwork Quilt |
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| 1985 | Author: Walter Dean Myers | Motown and Didi | @amazon |
| 1984 | Author: Lucille
Clifton
Special Citation -- Coretta Scott King Illustrator: Pat Cummings |
Everett Anderson's
Goodbye
Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. My Mama Needs Me |
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| 1983 | Author: Virginia
Hamilton
Illustrator: Peter Magubane |
Sweet Whispers,
Brother Rush
Black Child |
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| 1982 | Author: Mildred
D. Taylor
Illustrator: John Steptoe |
Let the Circle
Be Unbroken
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal |
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| 1981 | Author: Sidney
Poitier
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney |
This life
Count on Your Fingers African Style |
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| 1980 | Author: Walter
Dean Myers
Illustrator: Carole Byard |
Young Landlords
Cornrows |
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| 1979 | Author: Ossie
Davis
Illustrator: Tom Feelings |
Escape to Freedom:
A Play About Young Frederick Douglass
Something on My Mind |
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| 1978 | Author: Eloise Greenfield | Africa Dream | @amazon |
| 1977 | Author: James Haskins | Story of Stevie Wonder | @amazon |
| 1976 | Author: Pearl Bailey | Duey's Tale | @amazon |
| 1975 | Author: Dorothy Robinson | Legend of Africania | @amazon |
| 1974 | Author: Alice
Childress (1920-1994)
Illustrator: George Ford |
A Hero Ain't
Nothing But a Sandwich
Ray Charles |
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| 1973 | Author: Alfred Duckett | I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson [J.R. bio] | @amazon |
| 1972 | Author: Elton C. Fax | Seventeen Black Artists | @amazon |
| 1971 | Author: Charlemae Rollins | Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes | @amazon |
| 1970 | Author: Lillie Patterson | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Peace | @amazon |
| ........................................................ | Last Update: 01/27/2003 | ||