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The Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback - Jan. 29, 2010)

Book Awards

The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream." SUPPORT THE Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, Washington, DC

The Coretta Scott King Awards

CSK Awards, 1990-2007 | CSK Awards, 1970-1989 | John Steptoe Award | Books by John Steptoe

The CSK Awards, 1970-1989

1989 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

For illustration:

Mirandy and Brother Wind illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Honor Books

For narrative:

A Thief in the Village and Other Stories of Jamaica by James Berry

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton

For illustration:

Under the Sunday Tree illustrated by Amos Ferguson

Storm in the Night illustrated by Pat Cummings

1988 Medal Winners

For narrative:

The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor

For illustration:

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

Honor Books

For narrative:

An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis de Veaux

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester

For illustration:

What a Morning!: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals illustrated by Ashley Bryan

The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua illustrated by Joe Sam

1987 Medal Winners

For narrative:

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

For illustration:

Half a Moon and One Whole Star illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Honor Books

For narrative:

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan

Which Way Freedom? by Joyce Hansen

For illustration:

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan

C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings

1986 Medal Winners

For narrative:

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton

For illustration:

The Patchwork Quilt illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Honor Books

For narrative:

Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton

Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter

For illustration:

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by LEO DILLON (Illustrator), DIANE DILLON (Illustrator)

1985 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers

Honor Books

For narrative:

Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd

A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton

1984 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Coretta Scott King--Special Citation

For illustration:

My Mama Needs Me illustrated by Pat Cummings

Honor Books

For narrative:

The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton

Lena Horne by James Haskins

Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas

Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter

1983 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

For illustration:

Black Child by Peter Magubane

Honor Books

For narrative:

This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester

For illustration:

All the Colors of the Race illustrated by John Steptoe

I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals illustrated by Ashley Bryan

Just Us Women illustrated by Pat Cummings

1982 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor

For illustration:

Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal illustrated by John Steptoe

Honor Books

For narrative:

Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress

Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter

Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane

For illustration:

Daydreamers illustrated by Tom Feelings

Bearing the Cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Perennial Classics) by David Garrow (Author) (Paperback - January 1, 2004) Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Unabridged) | Unknown Binding

1982 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor

For illustration:

Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal illustrated by John Steptoe

Honor Books

For narrative:

Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress

Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter

Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane

For illustration:

Daydreamers illustrated by Tom Feelings

1981 Medal Winners

For narrative:

This Life by Sidney Poitier

For illustration:

Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan

Honor Books

For narrative:

Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis de Veaux

For illustration:

Grandmama's Joy illustrated by Carole Byard

Count on Your Fingers African Style illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

1980 Medal Winners

For narrative:

The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers

For illustration:

Cornrows illustrated by Carole Byard

Honor Books

For narrative:

Movin' Up by Berry Gordy

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little

Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission by James Haskins

James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins

Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland

1979 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis

For illustration:

Something on My Mind illustrated by Tom Feelings

Honor Books
For narrative:

Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson
I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson
Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
The Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner

1978 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield

For illustration:

Africa Dream illustrated by Carole Byard

Honor Books

For narrative:

The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner

Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass

Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield

Barbara Jordan by James Haskins

Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson

Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart

1977 Medal Winners

For narrative:

The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins

1976 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey

1975 Medal Winners

For narrative:

The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson

1974 Medal Winners

For narrative:

Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis

For illustration:

Ray Charles illustrated by George Ford

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

1973 Medal Winner

For narrative:

I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett

1972 Medal Winner

For narrative:

Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax

1971 Medal Winner

For narrative:

Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins

1970 Medal Winner

For narrative:

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

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