Year |
Author Award |
Illustrator Award |
| 2001 |
Miracle's Boys |
Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2000 |
Uptown |
Bryan Collier |
| 1999 |
Heaven by Angela Johnson |
i see the rhythm ,ill. by Michele Wood
Text by Toyomi Igus |
| 1998 |
Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper |
In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers ill. by
Javaka Steptoe
Text by Alan Schroeder |
| 1997 |
Slam by Walter Dean Myers |
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, ill. by Jerry Pickney
Text by Alan Schroeder |
| 1996 |
Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton |
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings |
| 1995 |
Chrismas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Particia C. &
Frederick L. McKissack |
The Creation, ill. by James Ransome
Text by James Weldon Johnson |
| 1994 |
Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson |
Soul Looks Back in Wonder, ill. by Tom Feelings;
Text edited by Phyllis Fogelman |
| 1993 |
Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissak |
The Oring of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth, ill. by Kathleen
Atkins Wilson;
Retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA |
| 1992 |
Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean
Myers |
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold |
| 1991 |
The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor |
Aida, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillion
Text by Leontyne Price |
| 1990 |
A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. &
Frederick L. McKissack |
Nathaniel Talking, ill by Jan Spivey;
Text by Eloise Greenfield |
| 1989 |
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers |
Mirandy and Brother Wind, ill. by Jerry Pickney
Text by Patricia McKissack |
| 1988 |
The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor |
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe |
| 1987 |
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter |
Half a Moon and One Whole Star, ill. by Jerry Pickney
Text by Crescent Dragonwagon |
| 1986 |
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton;
ill. by Leo & Diane Killon |
The Patchwork Quilt, ill. by Jerry Pickney
Text by Valerie Flournoy |
| 1985 |
Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers |
No Award |
| 1984 |
Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton |
My Mama Needs Me, ill. by Pat Cummings
Text by Mildred Pitts Walter |
| 1983 |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush |
Black Child by Peter Mugabane |
| 1982 |
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor |
Mother Crocodile; an Amadou Tale from Senegal, ill. by John Steptoe
Text by Rosa Guy |
| 1981 |
This Life by Sidney Poitier |
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan |
| 1980 |
The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers |
Cornrows, ill. by Carole Bynard
Text by Camille Yarborough |
| 1979 |
Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis |
Something on My Mind, ill. by Tom Feelings
Text by Nikki Grimes |
| 1978 |
Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Carole Baynard |
African Dream, ill. by Carole Baynard
Text by Eloise Greenfield |
| 1977 |
The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins |
No Award |
| 1976 |
Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey |
No Award |
| 1975 |
The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson |
No Award |
| 1974 |
Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; ill. by George Ford |
Ray Charles, ill. by George Ford
Text by Shaorn Bell Mathis |
| 1973 |
I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to
Alfred Duckett |
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| 1972 |
17 Black Artist by Elton C. Fax |
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| 1971 |
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charleme Rollins |
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| 1970 |
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson |
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