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The Coretta Scott King Award was founded in 1969 by Mabel McKissick and Glyden Greer, to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott. This award recognizes each year a book author and illustrator who are African American. The recipient book targets young adult or children audiences. They reveal the African American experience.

American Library Association. 18 February 2019. Coretta Scott Book Rewards. http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/coretta-scott-king-book-awards.

MSU Bilings Library, 7 Nov. 2018, libguides.msubillings.edu/c.php?g=242159&p=1610334.

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These are the specific instructions and criteria in order to be eligible:

1. Must portray some aspect of the black experience, past, present, or future.

2. Must be written/illustrated by an African American

3. Must be published in the U.S. in the year preceding presentation of the Award.

4. Must be an original work

5. Must meet established standards of quality writing for youth which include:

Clear plot

Well drawn characters, which portray growth and development during the course of the story.

Writing style which is consistent with and suitable to the age intended

Accuracy

6. Must be written for a youth audience in one of three categories:

Preschool-grade 4

Grades 5-8

Grades 9-12

7. Particular attention will be paid to titles which seek to motivate readers to develop their own attitudes and behaviors as well as comprehend their personal duty and responsibility as citizens in a pluralistic society.

8. Illustrations should reflect established qualitative standards identified in the statement below:Illustrations should... “heighten and extend the readers' awareness of the world around him. They should lead him to an appreciation of beauty. The style and content of the illustrations should be...neither coy nor condescending...Storytelling qualities should enlarge upon the story elements that were hinted in the text and should include details that will awaken and strengthen the imagination of the reader and permit him to interpret the words and pictures in a manner unique to him”
--Cianciolo, Illustrations in Children's Books (p. 24-25)

American Library Association. 18 February 2019. Coretta Scott King Book Awards Submission Form.http://www.ala.org/rt/emiert/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-submission-form

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A Few Red Drops, by Clarie Hartfield

American Library Association. 18 February 2019. Coretta Scott King Book Awards. http://www.ala.org/rt/emiert/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-all-recipients-1970-present

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The Stuff of Stars, Illustrator Ekua Holmes

American Library Association. 18 February 2019. Coretta Scott King Book Awards. http://www.ala.org/rt/emiert/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-all-recipients-1970-present

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2018: Piecing Me Together, by Renée Watson

2017: March: Book Three, by John Lewis.

2016: Gone Crazy in Alabama, by Rita Williams-Garcia

2015: Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

2014: P.S. Be Eleven, by Rita Williams-Garcia

2013: Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, by Andrea Davis Pinkney

2012: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, by Kadir Nelson

2011: One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

2010: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

2009: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, by Kadir Nelson

2008: Elijah of Buxton, by Christopher Paul Curtis

2007: Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper

2006: Day of Tears, a Novel in Dialogue, by Julius Lester

2005: Remember: The Journey to School Integration, by Toni Morrison

2004: The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

2003: Bronx Masquerade, by Nikki Grimes.

2002: The Land, by Mildred Taylor

Under Down. 18 February 2019. Coretta Scott King Book Awards.
http://www.underdown.org/coretta-scott-king-award.htm.

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2019: The Stuff of Stars, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, by Marion Dane Bauer

2018: Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, by Kwame Alexander

2017: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Javaka Steptoe

2016: Trombone Shorty, illustrated by Bryan Collier, by Troy Andrews

2015: Firebird, illustrated by Christopher Myers, by Misty Copeland.

2014: Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me, illustrated by Bryan Collier, by Daniel Beaty

2013: I, Too, Am America, illustrated by Bryan Collier

2012: Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, illustrated by Shane W. Evans.

2011: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill

2010: My People, illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr., written by Langston Hughes

2009: The Blacker the Berry, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, written by Joyce Carol Thomas 2008: Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals, by Ashley Bryan

2007: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford

2006: Rosa, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni

2005: Ellington Was Not a Street, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, by Ntozake Shange.

2004: Beautiful Blackbird, by Ashley Bryan.

2003: Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, by Nikki Grimes

2002: Goin' Someplace Special, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, written by Patricia McKissack

Under Down. 18 February 2019. Coretta Scott King Book Awards.
http://www.underdown.org/coretta-scott-king-award.htm.