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Storytimes Book Awards Local Authors

Newbery Medal Caldecott Medal Coretta Scott King Award California Young Reader Medal

2002 Author Award Winner
The Land, Mildred D. Taylor

2002 Author Award Honors
Money Hungry, Sharon G. Flake

Carver: A Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson

2002 Illustrator Award Winner
Goin' Someplace Special, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Author Award Winners

2001: Miracle Boys, Jacqueline Woodson
2000: Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
1999: Heaven, Angela Johnson
1998: Forged By Fire, Sharon M. Draper
1997: Slam!, Walter Dean Myers
1996: Her Stories, Virginia Hamilton
1995: Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, Patricia and Frederick McKissack
1994: Toning the Sweep, Angela Johnson
1993: The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, Patricia McKissack
1992: Now Is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom, Walter Dean Myers
1991: The Road to Memphis, Mildred D. Taylor
1990: A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter, Patricia and Frederick McKissack
1989: Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
1988: The Friendship, Mildred D. Taylor
1987: Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, Mildred Pitts Walter
1986: The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, Virginia Hamilton
1985: Motown and Didi, Walter Dean Myers
1984: Everett Anderson's Goodbye, Lucille Clifton
1983: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, Virginia Hamilton
1982: Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred D. Taylor
1981: This Life, Sidney Poitier
1980: The Young Landlords, Walter Dean Myers
1979: Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass, Ossie Davis
1978: African Dream, Eloise Greenfield
1977: The Story of Stevie Wonder, James Haskins
1976: Duey's Tale, Pearl Bailey
1975: The Legend of Africania, Dorothy Robinson
1974: Ray Charles, Sharon Bell Mathis
1973: I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett
1972: Seventeen Black Artists, Elton C. Fax
1971: Black Troubador: Langston Hughes, Charlemae H. Rollins
1970: Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace, Lillie Patterson

Illustrator Award Winners

2001: Uptown, Bryan Collier
2000: In the Time of the Drums, Brian Pinkney
1999: i see the rhythm, Michele Wood
1998: In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, Javaka Steptoe
1997: Mint: A Story of Yound Harriet Tubman, Jerry Pinkney
1996: The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo, Tom Feelings
1995: The Creation, James Ransome
1994: Soul Looks Back in Wonder, Tom Feelings
1993: The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, Kathleen Atkins Wilson
1992: Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold
1991: Aida, Leo and Diane Dillon
1990: Nathaniel Talking, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
1989: Mirandy and Brother Wind, Jerry Pinkney
1988: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale, John Steptoe
1987: Half a Moon and One Whole Star, Jerry Pinkney
1986: The Patchwork Quilt, Jerry Pinkney
1985: no award given
1984: My Mama Needs Me, Pat Cummings
1983: Black Child, Peter Magubane
1982: Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale From Senegal, John Steptoe
1981: Beat The Story-Drum, Pum-Pum, Ashley Bryan
1980: Cornrows, Carole Byard
1979: Something on My Mind, Tom Feelings
1978: Africa Dream, Carole Byard
1977: no award given
1976: no award given
1975: no award given
1974: Ray Charles, George Ford