2013 Author Award: Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney
2007 Author Award: Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
2005 Author Award: Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
2005 Illustrator Award: Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
2004 Author Award: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
2004 Illustrator Award: Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
2003 Author Award: Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
2003 Illustrator Award: Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
2001 Illustrator Award: Uptown by Bryan Collier
2000 Illustrator Award: In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson
1999 Illustrator Award: I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus
1998 Illustrator Award: In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall by Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma
1994 Author Award: Toning The Sweep by Angela Johnson
1994 Illustrator Award: Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, Haki R. Madhubuti, Lucille Clifton and 8 others
1992 Author Award: Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
1991 Illustrator Award: Aida by Leontyne Price
1990 Author Award: A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker’s American History Series for Young People) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick. McKissack
1990 Illustrator Award: Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
1989 Author Award: Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
1989 Illustrator Award: Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. Mckissack
1988 Author Award: The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
1987 Author Award: Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
1987 Illustrator Award: Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon
1986 Illustrator Award: The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
1985 Author Award: Motown and Didi (Polk Street Special) by Walter Dean Myers
1984 Author Award: Everett Anderson’s Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
1984 Illustrator Award: My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter
1983 Author Award: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1982 Author Award: Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
1981 Author Award: This Life by Sidney Poitier
1981 Illustrator Award: Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
1980 Author Award: The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
1979 Author Award: Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
1979 Illustrator Award: Something on My Mind by Nikki Grimes
1978 Author and Illustrator Award: Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Carole Byard
1971 Author Award: Black Troubadour by Langston Hughes
1970 Author Award: Martin Luther King Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
1976 Author Award: Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey
1974 Author and Illustrator Award: Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis, illustrated by George Ford
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