According to the American Library Association website: "Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience. Further, the Award encourages the artistic expression of the black experience via literature and the graphic arts in biographical, social, and historical treatments by African American authors and illustrators."
2025:
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ... by 
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by 
Coretta: the Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by 
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem by 
Go Forth and Tell: the Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by 2024:
Big by 
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by 
Holding Her Own: the Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by 
There Was a Party for Langston by 2023:
Victory. Stand! by 
Standing in the Need of Prayer by 2022:
Unspeakable by 
Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by 
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by 2021:
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by 
Magnificent Homespun Brown by 2020:
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by 
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by 2019:
A Few Red Drops by 
The Season of Styx Malone by 
The Stuff of Stars by 
Let the Children March by 
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by 2018:
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by 
Before She Was Harriet by 2017:
Freedom over Me by 
Freedom in Congo Square by 2016:
Last Stop on Market Street by 2015:
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by 2014:
2013:
2012:
Heart and Soul by 2011:
2010:
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by 2009:
We Are the Ship by 
The Blacker the Berry by 
Before John Was a Jazz Giant by 2008:
The Secret Olivia Told Me by 2007:
2006:
2005:
The Legend of Buddy Bush by 2004:
2003:
Talkin' about Bessie by 2002:
Goin' Someplace Special by 2001:
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by 2000:
In the Time of the Drums by 
My Rows and Piles of Coins by 1999:
The Bat Boy and His Violin by 1998:
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly by 
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall by 
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry by 
The Hunterman and the Crocodile by 1997:
Running the Road to ABC by 
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going by 1996:
Her Stories by 
The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by 
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by 
The Faithful Friend by 1995:
1994:
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by 
Uncle Jed's Barber Shop by 1993:
Sukey and the Mermaid by 1992:
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1989:
Mirandy and Brother Wind by 1988:
The Tales of Uncle Remus by 
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by 1986:
The Patchwork Quilt by 1977:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by 
