2020 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
The Undefeated
Kadir Nelson
2019 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
The Stuff of Stars
Ekua Holmes
2018 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Ekua Holmes
2017 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Radiant Child
Javaka Steptoe
2016 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Trombone Shorty
Bryan Collier
2015 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Firebird
Misty Copeland
2014 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me
Daniel Beaty
2013 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
I, Too, Am America
Langston Hughes
2012 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Underground
Shane W. Evans
2011 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Bryan Collier
2010 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
My People
Charles R. Smith Jr.
2009 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
The Blacker the Berry
Floyd Cooper
2008 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
Ashley Bryan
2007 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Moses
Carole Boston Weatherford
2006 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Rosa
Bryan Collier
2005 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Ellington Was Not a Street
Ntozake Shange
2004 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Beautiful Blackbird
Ashley Bryan
2003 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
Nikki Grimes
2002 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Goin’ Someplace Special
Patricia C. McKissack and Pat McKissack
2001 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Uptown
Bryan Collier
2000 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
In the Time of the Drums
Brian Pinkney
1999 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
I See the Rhythm
Michele Wood
1998 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
Javaka Steptoe
1997 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
Jerry Pinkney
1996 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
The Middle Passage
Tom Feelings
1995 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
The Creation
James Ransome
1994 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Tom Feelings
1993 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth
Kathleen Atkins Wilson
1992 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold
1991 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Aida
Leo and Diane Dillon
1990 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Nathaniel Talking
Jan Spivey Gilchrist
1989 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Mirandy and Brother Wind
Jerry Pinkney
1988 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
John Steptoe
1987 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Half a Moon and One Whole Star
Jerry Pinkney
1986 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
The Patchwork Quilt
Jerry Pinkney
1984 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
My Mama Needs Me
Pat Cummings
1983 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Black Child
Peter Magubane
1982 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal
John Steptoe
1981 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
Ashley Bryan
1980 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Cornrows
Carole Byard
1979 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Something on My Mind
Tom Feelings
1978 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
Africa Dream
Carole Byard
1974 Coretta Scott King Award – Illustrator
