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 | E G453we | 2023 | |
| John Steptoe Author | Adia, Jade | There Goes the Neighborhood | Fic A235th | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Alexander, Kwame | An American Story | 306.362 A3764am | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Harrison, Vashti | Big | E H322bi | ||
| Reynolds, Jason | There Was a Party for Langston | E R4635th | |||
| Todd, Traci N. | Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes | 92 O73to | |||
| Author Winner | Zoboi, Ibi | Nigeria Jones | Fic Z835ni | ||
| Author Honor | Harrison, Vashti | Big | E H322bi | ||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee | 305.896 W3626ho | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Kin: Rooted in Hope | Fic W3625ki | |||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Joy, Angela | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil... | 92 T5743jo | 2022 | |
| Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia | The Me I Choose to Be | E T1912me | |||
| John Steptoe Author | McBride, Amber | Me (Moth) | Fic M1194me | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Weatherford, Carole Boston | Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual | 973.0496073 W3626st | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Smith, Tommie | Victory. Stand! Raising my Fist for Justice | 92 S662sm | ||
| Williams, Alicia | The Talk | E W721ta | |||
| Christmas, Johnnie | Swim Team | 741.5971 C555sw | |||
| Edwards, Michelle | Me and the Boss | E E263me | |||
| Esperanza, CG | Soul Food Sunday | E B6135so / ebook | |||
| Figueroa, Raissa | We Wait for the Sun | 92 R859ro / ebook | |||
| Author Winner | Luqman-Dawson, Amina | Freewater | Fic L966fr | ||
| Author Honor | Smith, Tommie | Victory. Stand! Raising my Fist for Justice | 92 S662sm | ||
| Magoon, Kekla | Revolution in Our Time | 323.1196 M1998re / ebook | |||
| Zoboi, Ibi | Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler | 92 B986zo | |||
| John Steptoe Author | Deonn, Tracy | Legendborn | Fic D418Le | 2021 | |
| Illustrator Winner | Morrison, Frank | R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul | 92 F831re | ||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | 976.6860 W3625un | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Cabrera, Cozbi A. | Me & Mama | E C1168me | ||
| Juanita, Kaylani | Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration | E D754ma | |||
| Slade, Suzanne | Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | 92 B873ex | |||
| Todd, Traci N. | Nina: A Story of Nina Simone | 92 S598to | |||
| Author Winner | Weatherford, Carole Boston | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | 976.6860 W3625un | ||
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Before the Ever After | Fic W8986be | |||
| Author Honor | Callender, Kacen | King and the Dragonflies | Fic C157ki | ||
| Dionne, Evette | Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box | 324.6230 D592Li | |||
| Elhillo, Safia | Home is Not a Country | Fic E415ho | |||
| Taylor, Mildred D. | All the Days Past, All the Days to Come | Fic T244aL | |||
| Zoboi, Ibi Aanu | The People Remember | 973.0496073 Z835pe | |||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Harrison, April | What is Given From the Heart | E M158wh | 2020 | |
| John Steptoe Author | Williams, Alicia | Genesis Begins Again | Fic W721ge | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Bryan, Ashley | Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from WWII to Peace | 92 B9151bry | ||
| Harrison, Vashti | Sulwe | E N997su | |||
| Ransome, James E. | The Bell Rang | E R2124be | |||
| Author Honor | Mbalia, Kwame | Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Fic M478tr | ||
| Petrus, Junauda | The Stars and the Blackness Between Them | Fic P4987st | |||
| Reynolds, Jason | Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks | Fic R4635Loo | |||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Mora, Oge | Thank You, Omu | E M8269th | 2019 | |
| John Steptoe Author | Jackson, Tiffany | Monday's Not Coming | Fic J143mo | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Alexander, Kwame | The Undefeated | 811.6 A3763un | ||
| Holmes, Ekua | The Stuff of Stars | 523.18 B344st | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Christie, R. Gregory | Memphis, Martin and the Mountaintop | 331.89281 D911me | ||
| Freeman, Laura | Hidden Figures | 510.925 S554hi | |||
| Morrison, Frank | Let the Children March | E C612Le | |||
| Author Winner | Craft, Jerry | New Kid | 741.5973 C885ne | ||
| Hartfield, Claire | A Few Red Drops | 305.896 H328fe | |||
| Author Honor | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | Finding Langston | Fic C64115fi | ||
| Johnson, Varian | The Parker Inheritance | Fic J697pa | |||
| Magoon, Kekla | The Season of Styx Malone | Fic M1998se | |||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Palmer, Charly | Mama Africa | 92 M235er | 2018 | |
| John Steptoe Author | Moore, David Barclay | The Stars Beneath Our Feet | Fic M8215st | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Colderley, Chris | Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets | 808.1 A376ou | ||
| Author Winner | Watson, Renee | Piecing Me Together | Fic W3416pi | ||
| Author Honor | Reynolds, Jason | Long Way Down | Fic R4635Lo | ||
| Thomas, Angie | The Hate U Give | Fic T454ha | |||
| John Steptoe Author | Yoon, Nicola | The Sun is Also a Star | Fic Y597su | 2017 | |
| Illustrator Winner | Steptoe, Javaka | Radiant Child: A Story of Young Artist Jean-Michael Basquiat | 92 B3165st | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | Before She Was Harriet | 92 T885cL | ||
| Pinkney, Jerry | In Plain Sight | E J138in | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Freedom in Congo Square | E W3625fr | |||
| Author Winner | Lewis, John and Andrew Aydin | March: Book Three | 323.092 L6745mas | ||
| Author Honor | Reynolds, Jason | As Brave as You | Fic R4635as | ||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Holmes, Ekua | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | 92 H214we | 2016 | |
| John Steptoe Author | Smith, Ronald | Hoodoo | Fic S6582ho | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | Trombone Shorty | 92 A571an | ||
| Illustrator Honor | de la Pena, Matt | Last Stop on Market Street | E D338La | ||
| Nelson, Vaunda | The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore | FIc N4318bo | |||
| Author Winner | Williams-Garcia, Rita | Gone Crazy in Alabama | Fic W7286go | ||
| Author Honor | Bryan, Ashley | Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life | 811.54 B915fr | ||
| Reynolds, Jason | All American Boys | Fic R4635al | |||
| Reynolds, Jason | The Boy in the Black Suit | Fic R4635bo | |||
| Shabazz, Ilyasah | X: A Novel | Fic S524x | |||
| John Steptoe Author | Reynolds, Jason | When I Was the Greatest | Fic R4635wh | 2015 | |
| Illustrator Winner | Myers, Christopher | Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird | E C782fi | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Robinson, Christian | Josephine: The Dazzling life of Josephine Baker | 92 B1678po | ||
| Author Winner | Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming | 92 W8986wo | ||
| Author Honor | Alexander, Kwame | The Crossover | Fic A3764cr | ||
| Nelson, Marilyn | How I Discovered Poetry | 811.54 N428ho | |||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Taylor III, Theodore | When the Beat Was Born | 92 K825hi | 2014 | |
| Illustrator Honor | Nelson, Kadir | Nelson Mandela | 92 M2699nel | ||
| Author Honor | Grimes, Nikki | Words with Wings | Fic G862wo | ||
| Lewis, John | March: Book One | 323.092 L6745ma | |||
| Meyers, Walter Dean | Darius & Twig | FIc M996d | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | I, Too, Am America | 811.52 H8935it | 2013 | |
| Illustrator Honor | Meyers, Christopher | H.O.R.S.E. | Fic M9956ho | ||
| Minter, Daniel | Ellen's Broom | E L9916el | |||
| Nelson, Kadir (ill.) | I Have a Dream | 323.092 K53ia | |||
| Author Winner | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America | 973.0496 P655ha | ||
| Author Honor | Nelson, Vaunda | No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller | Fic N4318no | ||
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Each Kindness | E W8985ea | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Evans, Shane W. | Underground | 973.7115 E925un | 2012 | |
| Illustrator Honor | Nelson, Kadir | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | 973.0496 N427he | ||
| Author Winner | Nelson, Kadir | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | 973.0496 N427he | ||
| Author Honor | McKissack, Patricia | Never Forgotten | Fic M1589ne | ||
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave | 92 D246hi | 2011 | |
| Illustrator Honor | Steptoe, Javaka | Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix | 92 H498go | ||
| Author Winner | Williams-Garcia, Rita | One Crazy Summer | Fic W7286on | ||
| Author Honor | Greenfield, Eloise | The Great Migration: Journey to the North | 811.54 G8125gr | ||
| John Steptoe Author | Magoon, Kekla | The Rock and the River | Fic M1998ro | 2010 | |
| Illustrator Winner | Smith, Charles R. | My People | 811.52 H8935my | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Lewis, E.B. | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | 811.52 H8935ne | ||
| Author Winner | Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux | Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal | 92 R332ne | ||
| Author Honor | Davis, Tanita S. | Mare’s War | Fic D2646ma | ||
| John Steptoe Illustrator | Strickland, Shadra | Bird | Fic E4667bi | 2009 | |
| Illustrator Winner | Cooper, Floyd | The Blacker the Berry | 811.54 T458bL | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | 796.357 N427we | ||
| Pinkney, Jerry | The Moon Over Star | E A856mo | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Before John Was a Jazz Giant | 92 C7254we | |||
| Author Winner | Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | 796.357 N427we | ||
| Author Honor | Cooper, Floyd | The Blacker the Berry | 811.54 T458bL | ||
| Smith, Hope Anita | Keeping the Night Watch | 811.6 S649ke | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Becoming Billie Holiday | Fic W3625be | |||
| Illustrator Winner | Bryan, Ashley | Let it Shine | 782.253 L645 | 2008 | |
| Illustrator Honor | Devard, Nancy | The Secret Olivia Told Me | E J88se | ||
| Dillon, Leo and Diane | Jazz On A Saturday Night | 781.65 D579ja | |||
| Author Winner | Curtis, Christopher Paul | Elijah of Buxton | Fic C9788el | ||
| Author Honor | Draper, Sharon M. | November Blues | Fic D7663no | ||
| Smith, Charles R. | Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali | 92 A398sm | |||
| John Steptoe Author | Jones, Traci | Standing Against the Wind | Fic J793st | 2007 | |
| Illustrator Winner | Nelson, Kadir | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | 92 T885we | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Andrews, Benny | Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes | 811.52 H8935La | ||
| Myers, Christopher | Jazz | E M996ja | |||
| Author Winner | Draper, Sharon M. | Copper Sun | Fic D7663co | ||
| Author Honor | Grimes, Nikki | The Road to Paris | Fic G862ro | ||
| John Steptoe Author | Adoff, Jaime | Jimi & Me | Fic A2393ji | 2006 | |
| Illustrator Winner | Collier, Bryan | Rosa | 92 P252gi | ||
| Illustrator Honor | Christie, R. Gregory | Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan | Fic W72492br | ||
| Author Winner | Lester, Julius | Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue | Fic L64214da | ||
| Author Honor | Bolden, Tonya | Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl | 92 L9913bo | ||
| Grimes, Nikki | Dark Sons | Fic G862dar | |||
| Nelson, Marilyn | A Wreath for Emmett Till | 811.54 N428wr | |||
| Illustrator Honor | Nolen, Jerdine | Thunder Rose | E N7912th | 2003 |