Awarded annually by the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, a part of the American Library Association, the Coretta Scott King Award recognizes outstanding African American authors and illustrators. The award is named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. See a complete list of past Coretta Scott King Award winners.
| Subject | Author | Title | Call number | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Giddens, Rhiannon | We Could Fly | 2023 | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Harrison, Vashti | Big | |||
| Reynolds, Jason | There Was a Party for Langston | ||||
| Author Honor | Harrison, Vashti | Big | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee | ||||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Kin: Rooted in Hope | ||||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Joy, Angela | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil... | 2022 | ||
| Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia | The Me I Choose to Be | ||||
| John Steptoe Author | McBride, Amber | Me (Moth) | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Weatherford, Carole Boston | Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual | |||
| Cooper, Floyd | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | ||||
| Illustrator Honor | Smith, Tommie | Victory. Stand! Raising my Fist for Justice | |||
| Williams, Alicia | The Talk | ||||
| Christmas, Johnnie | Swim Team | ||||
| Edwards, Michelle | Me and the Boss | ||||
| Esperanza, CG | Soul Food Sunday | ||||
| Figueroa, Raissa | We Wait for the Sun | ||||
| Author Winner | Luqman-Dawson, Amina | Freewater | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | ||||
| Author Honor | Smith, Tommie | Victory. Stand! Raising my Fist for Justice | |||
| Elhillo, Safia | Home Is Not a Country | ||||
| Magoon, Kekla | Revolution in Our Time | ||||
| Zoboi, Ibi | Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler | ||||
| Zoboi, Ibi | The People Remember | ||||
| John Steptoe Author | Deonn, Tracy | Legendborn | 2021 | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Morrison, Frank | R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Cabrera, Cozbi A. | Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | |||
| Cabrera, Cozbi A. | Me & Mama | ||||
| Juanita, Kaylani | Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration | ||||
| Todd, Traci N. | Nina: A Story of Nina Simone | ||||
| Author Winner | Woodson, Jacqueline | Before the Ever After | |||
| Author Honor | Callender, Kacen | King and the Dragonflies | |||
| Dionne, Evette | Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box | ||||
| Taylor, Mildred D. | All the Days Past, All the Days to Come | ||||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Harrison, April | What is Given From the Heart | 2020 | ||
| John Steptoe Author | Williams, Alicia | Genesis Begins Again | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Bryan, Ashley | Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from WWII to Peace | |||
| Harrison, Vashti | Sulwe | ||||
| Ransome, James E. | The Bell Rang | ||||
| Author Honor | Mbalia, Kwame | Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | |||
| Petrus, Junauda | The Stars and the Blackness Between Them | ||||
| Reynolds, Jason | Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks | ||||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Mora, Oge | Thank You, Omu | 2019 | ||
| John Steptoe Author | Jackson, Tiffany | Monday's Not Coming | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Alexander, Kwame | The Undefeated | |||
| Holmes, Ekua | The Stuff of Stars | ||||
| Illustrator Honor | Christie, R. Gregory | Memphis, Martin and the Mountaintop | |||
| Freeman, Laura | Hidden Figures | ||||
| Morrison, Frank | Let the Children March | ||||
| Author Winner | Craft, Jerry | New Kid | |||
| Hartfield, Claire | A Few Red Drops | ||||
| Author Honor | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | Finding Langston | |||
| Johnson, Varian | The Parker Inheritance | ||||
| Magoon, Kekla | The Season of Styx Malone | ||||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Palmer, Charly | Mama Africa | 2018 | ||
| John Steptoe Author | Moore, David Barclay | The Stars Beneath Our Feet | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Colderley, Chris | Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Ransome, James (ill.) | Before She Was Harriet | |||
| Author Winner | Watson, Renee | Piecing Me Together | |||
| Author Honor | Reynolds, Jason | Long Way Down | |||
| Thomas, Angie | The Hate U Give | ||||
| John Steptoe Author | Yoon, Nicola | The Sun is Also a Star | 2017 | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Steptoe, Javaka | Radiant Child: A Story of Young Artist Jean-Michael Basquiat | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Pinkney, Jerry | In Plain Sight | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Freedom in Congo Square | ||||
| Author Winner | Lewis, John and Andrew Aydin | March: Book Three | |||
| Author Honor | Reynolds, Jason | As Brave as You | |||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Holmes, Ekua | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | 2016 | ||
| John Steptoe Author | Smith, Ronald | Hoodoo | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | Trombone Shorty | |||
| Illustrator Honor | de la Pena, Matt | Last Stop on Market Street | |||
| Nelson, Vaunda | The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore | ||||
| Author Winner | Williams-Garcia, Rita | Gone Crazy in Alabama | |||
| Author Honor | Bryan, Ashley | Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life | |||
| Reynolds, Jason | All American Boys | ||||
| Reynolds, Jason | The Boy in the Black Suit | ||||
| Shabazz, Ilyasah | X: A Novel | ||||
| John Steptoe Author | Reynolds, Jason | When I Was the Greatest | 2015 | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Myers, Christopher | Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Robinson, Christian | Josephine: The Dazzling life of Josephine Baker | |||
| Author Winner | Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming | |||
| Author Honor | Alexander, Kwame | The Crossover | |||
| Nelson, Marilyn | How I Discovered Poetry | ||||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Taylor III, Theodore | When the Beat Was Born | 2014 | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Nelson, Kadir | Nelson Mandela | |||
| Author Honor | Grimes, Nikki | Words with Wings | |||
| Lewis, John | March: Book One | ||||
| Meyers, Walter Dean | Darius & Twig | ||||
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | I, Too, Am America | 2013 | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Meyers, Christopher | H.O.R.S.E. | |||
| Minter, Daniel | Ellen's Broom | ||||
| Nelson, Kadir (ill.) | I Have a Dream | ||||
| Author Winner | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America | |||
| Author Honor | Nelson, Vaunda | No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller | |||
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Each Kindness | ||||
| Illustrator Winner | Evans, Shane W. | Underground | 2012 | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Nelson, Kadir | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | |||
| Author Winner | Nelson, Kadir | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | |||
| Author Honor | McKissack, Patricia | Never Forgotten | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave | 2011 | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Steptoe, Javaka | Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix | |||
| Author Winner | Williams-Garcia, Rita | One Crazy Summer | |||
| Author Honor | Greenfield, Eloise | The Great Migration: Journey to the North | |||
| John Steptoe Author | Magoon, Kekla | The Rock and the River | 2010 | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Smith, Charles R. | My People | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Lewis, E.B. | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |||
| Author Winner | Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux | Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal | |||
| Author Honor | Davis, Tanita S. | Mare’s War | |||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Strickland, Shadra | Bird | 2009 | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Cooper, Floyd | The Blacker the Berry | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | |||
| Pinkney, Jerry | The Moon Over Star | ||||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Before John Was a Jazz Giant | ||||
| Author Winner | Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | |||
| Author Honor | Cooper, Floyd | The Blacker the Berry | |||
| Smith, Hope Anita | Keeping the Night Watch | ||||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Becoming Billie Holiday | ||||
| Illustrator Winner | Bryan, Ashley | Let it Shine | 2008 | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Devard, Nancy | The Secret Olivia Told Me | |||
| Dillon, Leo and Diane | Jazz On A Saturday Night | ||||
| Author Winner | Curtis, Christopher Paul | Elijah of Buxton | |||
| Author Honor | Draper, Sharon M. | November Blues | |||
| Smith, Charles R. | Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali | ||||
| John Steptoe Author | Jones, Traci | Standing Against the Wind | 2007 | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Nelson, Kadir | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Andrews, Benny | Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes | |||
| Myers, Christopher | Jazz | ||||
| Author Winner | Draper, Sharon M. | Copper Sun | |||
| Author Honor | Grimes, Nikki | The Road to Paris | |||
| John Steptoe Author | Adoff, Jaime | Jimi & Me | 2006 | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | Rosa | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Christie, R. Gregory | Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan | |||
| Author Winner | Lester, Julius | Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue | |||
| Author Honor | Bolden, Tonya | Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl | |||
| Grimes, Nikki | Dark Sons | ||||
| Nelson, Marilyn | A Wreath for Emmett Till | ||||
| Illustrator Honor | Nolen, Jerdine | Thunder Rose | 2003 |