• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Honor Books
    • November Blues by Sharon M. Draper
    • Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
      
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan
      
  • Honor Books
    • The Secret Olivia Told Me written by N. Joy, Illustrated by Nancy Devard
    • Jazz On A Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon
      
        
• New Talent
  • Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It by Sundee T. Frazier
    

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Copper Sun by Sharon Draper.
  • Honor Books
    • The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
      
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
      
  • Honor Books
    • Jazz,” illustrated by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers
    • Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes” illustrated by Benny Andrews, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad
        
• New Talent
  • Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
  • Honor Books
    • Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
    • Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
    • A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier
      
  • Honor Books
    • Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by R. Gregory Christie
• New Talent
  • Jimi & Me by Jaime Adoff

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
  • Honor Books
    • The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
    • Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
    • Who Am I Without Him? by Sharon G. Flake
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Ellington Was Not a Street by Kadir Nelson
      
  • Honor Books
    • God Bless the Child by Jerry Pinkney
    • The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Leo and Diane Dillon

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • The First Part Last By Angela Johnson
  • Honor Books
    • Days of Jubilee: The end of slavery in the United States
      by Patricia C McKissack, Fredrick McKissack, Patricia C Fredrick L , and Pat McKissack
    • Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
    • The Battle of Jericho By Sharon Mills Drape
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Beautiful Blackbird
      By Ashley Bryan
      
  • Honor Books
    • Almost to Freedom
      by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Author) , Colin Bootman (Illustrator)
    • Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Author) , Colin Bootman (Illustrator)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books for Young Readers)
  • Honor Books
    • The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods (G.P.Putnam's Sons)
    • Talkin' About Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes (Orchard Books/Scholastic)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Orchard Books/Scholastic)
  • Honor Books
    • Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillion (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Inc.)
    • Visiting Langston, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt & Co.)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • The Land by Mildred Taylor (Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam)
  • Honor Books
    • Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
    • Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Goin' Someplace Special, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum)
  • Honor Books
    • Martin's Big Words, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rappoport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  • Honor Books
    • Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Gulliver Books, Harcourt)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Uptown by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt)
  • Honor Books
    • Freedom River by Bryan Collier (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
    • Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; text by Anne Rockwell (Random House)
    • Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys illustrated by E.B. Lewis; text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
  • Honor Books
    • Francie by Karen English (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
    • Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic Press)
    • Monster by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • In the Time of the Drums , ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)
  • Honor Books
    • My Rows and Piles of Coins , ill. by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion Books)
    • Black Cat by Christopher Myers (Scholastic)

• Author
• Award Winner
  • Heaven by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
• Honor Books
  • Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes (Dial Books)
  • Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan (Henry Holt and Company)
  • The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson (Orchard Books)
• Illustrator
• Award Winner
  • I see the rhythm , ill. by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus (Children's Book Press)
• Honor Books
  • I Have Heard of a Land , ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
  • The Bat Boy and His Violin , ill. by E.B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster)
  • Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra , ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)
  • Honor Books
    • Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion)
    • I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic, Inc.)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers , ill. by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low)
  • Honor Books
    • Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry , by Ashley Bryan (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
    • Harlem , ill. by Christopher Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, Inc.)
    • The Hunterman and the Crocodile , by Baba Wagué Diakité (Scholastic, Inc.)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Slam by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
  • Honor Books
    • Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)
  • Honor Books
    • The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children , ill. by Gregorie Christie; edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.)
    • Running The Road To ABC , ill. by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers)
    • Neeny Coming, Neeny Going , ill. by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
  • Honor Books
    • The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
    • Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia (Delacorte
    • From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (Dial Books for Young Readers)
  • Honor Books
    • Her Stories , ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
  • The Faithful Friend , ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.)
  • Honor Books
    • The Captive by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)
    • I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)
    • Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic, Inc.)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • The Creation , ill. by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House)
      Honor Books
    • The Singing Man , ill. by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House)
    • Meet Danitra Brown , ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
  • Honor Books
    • Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; ill. by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)
    • Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Soul Looks Back in Wonder , ill. by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers)
  • Honor Books
    • Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea , ill. by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins)
    • Uncle Jed's Barbershop , ill. by James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack (Knopf)
  • Honor Books
    • Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (Bradbury)
    • Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
    • Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth , ill. by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights)
  • Honor Books
    • Little Eight John , ill. by Wil Clay; text by Jan Wahl (Lodestar)
    • Sukey and the Mermaid , ill. by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci (Four Winds)
    • Working Cotton , ill. by Carole Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
  • Honor Books
    • Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Crown)
  • Honor Books
    • All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African American Spirituals , ill. and selected by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
    • Night on Neighborhood Street , ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

1991

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
  • Honor Books
    • Black Dance in America by James Haskins (Crowell)
    • When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
• Illustrator
  • Aida , ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price (Harcourt)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack (Walker)
  • Honor Books
    • Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield, ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly)
    • The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
    • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson (Facts on File)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Nathaniel Talking , ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly)
  • Honor Books
    • The Talking Eggs , ill. by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci (Dial)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
  • Honor Books
    • A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry (Orchard)
    • Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Mirandy and Brother Wind , ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
  • Honor Books
    • Under the Sunday Tree , ill. by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield (Harper)
    • Storm in the Night , ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz (Harper)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor (Dial)
  • Honor Books
    • An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)
    • The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester (Dial)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe (Lothrop)
  • Honor Books
    • What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals , ill. by Ashley Bryan; selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan)
    • The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua , ill. by Joe Sam; compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al (Children's Press)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)
  • Honor Books
    • Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
    • Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen (Walker)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Half a Moon and One Whole Star , ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon (Macmillan)
  • Honor Books
  • Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
  • C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings (Lothrop)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)
  • Honor Books
    • Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)
    • Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • The Patchwork Quilt , ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy (Dial)
  • Honor Books
    • The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales , ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)
  • Honor Books
    • Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd (Apple/Scholastic)
    • A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
• Illustrator
  • No award

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton (Holt)
  • Special Citation:
    • The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. , Coretta Scott King, compiler (Newmarket Press)
  • Honor Books
    • The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton (Harper)
    • Lena Horne by James Haskins (Coward-McCann)
    • Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas (Avon)
    • Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter
• Illustrator
  • My Mama Needs Me , ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
  • Honor Books
    • This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester (Dial)
• Illustrator
• Award Winner
  • Black Child by Peter Mugabane (Knopf)
• Honor Books
  • All the Colors of the Race , ill. by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop)
  • I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals , ill. by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
  • Just Us Women , ill. by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines (Harper)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
  • Honor Books
    • Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress (Coward-McCann)
    • Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter (Scribner)
    • Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane (Viking)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal , ill. by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy (Delacorte)
  • Honor Books
    • Daydreamers , ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • This Life by Sidney Poitier (Knopf)
  • Honor Books
    • Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux (Harper)
• Illustrator
  • Award Winner
    • Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
  • Honor Books
    • Grandmama's Joy , ill. by Carole Byard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Collins)
    • Count on Your Fingers African Style , ill. by Jerry Pinkney; text by Claudia Zaslavsky (Crowell)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers (Viking)
  • Honor Books
    • Movin' Up by Berry Gordy (Harper)
    • Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little (Harper)
    • Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission by James Haskins (Lothrop)
    • James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins (Dodd)
    • Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (Scribner)
• Illustrator
  • Cornrows , ill. by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough (Coward-McCann)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis (Viking)
  • Honor Books
    • Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson (Abingdon)
    • I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson (Harper)
    • Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton (Greenwillow)
    • Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner (Random)
• Illustrator
  • Something on My Mind , ill. by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes (Dial)

• Author
  • Award Winner
    • Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield; ill. by Carole Bayard (Crowell)
  • Honor Books
    • The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner (Follett)
    • Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass (St. Martin's)
    • Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)
    • Barbara Jordan by James Haskins (Dial)
    • Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)
    • Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart (Doubleday)
• Illustrator
• Africa Dream , ill. by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell)

• Author
  • The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins (Lothrop)
• Illustrator
  • No award

• Author
  • Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey (Harcourt)
• Illustrator
  • No award

• Author
  • The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson (Johnson Publishing)
• Illustrator
  • No award

• Author
  • Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; ill. by George Ford (Crowell)
• Illustrator
  • Ray Charles , ill. by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis (Crowell)

• I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson , as told to Alfred Duckett (Putnam)
• Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only.

• 17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax (Dodd)
• Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only.

• Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins (Rand McNally)
• Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson (Garrard)
• Note: Prior to 1974, the CSK Award was given to authors only.