Coretta Scott King Award for African American Literature by Marazul Orozco https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc en-us 2019-02-20 02:47:19 UTC 2019-02-20 19:05:22 UTC hello@padlet.com About this award: morozc38 https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333019591 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. ]]> 2019-02-20 02:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333019591 Criteria and Eligibility morozc38 https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333266253
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

]]> 2019-02-20 16:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333266253 Author Current Recipient for 2019 morozc38 https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333268576
  • 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

    ]]>     2019-02-20 16:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333268576     Author Past Winners morozc38 https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333275012
  •  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.
    ]]>     2019-02-20 17:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333275012     Illustrator Current Recipient for 2019 morozc38 https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333278595
  • 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
    ]]>     2019-02-20 17:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333278595     Illustrator Past Winners morozc38 https://padlet.com/morozc38/w1526leygsuc/wish/333278988
  • 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. 
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