2013
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney. Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
Illustrator: Bryan Collier. I, Too, Am American
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2012
Author: Kadir Nelson. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Illustrator: Shane W. Evans. Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
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2011
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia. One Crazy Summer
Illustrator: Bryan Collier. Dave the Potter
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2010
Author: Vaunda Michaeux Nelson. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
Illustrator: Charles S. Smith, Jr.. My People
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2009
Author: Kadir Nelson. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Illustrator: Floyd Cooper. The Blacker the Berry (2008 novel)
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2008
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis. Elijah of Buxton
Illustrator: Ashley Bryan. Let it Shine
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2007
Author: Sharon Draper. Copper Sun
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Author: Carole Boston Weatherford)
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2006
Author: Julius Lester. Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
Illustrator: Bryan Collier. Rosa (Author: Nikki Giovanni)
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2005
Author: Toni Morrison. Remember: The Journey to School Integration
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson. Ellington Was Not a Street
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2004
Author: Angela Johnson. The First Part Last
Illustrator: Ashley Bryan. Beautiful Blackbird
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2003
Author: Nikki Grimes. Bronx Masquerade
Illustrator: E. B. Lewis. Talkin' about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
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2002
Author: Mildred D. Taylor. The Land
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney. Goin' Someplace Special (Author: Patricia McKissack)
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2001
Author: Jacqueline Woodson. Miracle's Boys
Illustrator: Bryan Collier. Uptown
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2000
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy
Illustrator: Brian Pinkney. In the Time of the Drums (Author: Kim L. Siegelson)
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1999
Author: Angela Johnson. Heaven
Illustrator: Michelle Wood. i see the rhythm (Author: Toyomi Igus)
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1998
Author: Sharon M. Draper. Forged by Fire
Illustrator: Javaka Steptoe. In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
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1997
Author: Walter Dean Myers. Slam!
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney. Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (Author: Alan Schroeder)
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1996
Author: Virginia Hamilton. Her Stories. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
Illustrator: Tom Feelings. The Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo (Introduction by John Henrik Clarke)
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1995
Author: Patricia and Frederick McKissack. Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
Illustrator: James Ransome. The Creation (Author: James Weldon Johnson)
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1994
Author: Angela Johnson. Toning the Sweep
Illustrator: Tom Feelings. Soul Looks Back in Wonder
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1993
Author: Patricia McKissack. The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Illustrator: Kathleen Atkins Wilson. The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth (Author: David A. Anderson)
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1992
Author: Walter Dean Myers. Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
Illustrator: Faith Ringgold. Tar Beach
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1991
Author: Mildred D. Taylor. The Road To Memphis
Illustrator: Leo and Diane Dillon. Aida (Author: Leontyne Price)
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1990
Author: Patricia and Frederick McKissack. A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
Illustrator: Jan Spivey Gilchrist. Nathaniel Talking (Author: Eloise Greenfield)
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1989
Author: Walter Dean Myers. Fallen Angels
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney. Mirandy and Brother Wind (Author: Patricia McKissack)
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1988
Author: Mildred D. Taylor. The Friendship
Illustrator: John Steptoe. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
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1987
Author: Mildred Pitts Walter. Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney. Half a Moon and One Whole Star (Author: Crecent Dragonwagon)
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1986
Author: Virginia Hamilton. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney. The Patchwork Quilt (Author: Valerie Flournoy)
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1985
Author: Walter Dean Myers. Motown and Didi
Illustrator: (no award)
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1984
Author: Lucille Clifton. Everett Anderson's Goodbye
Illustrator: Pat Cummings. My Mama Needs Me (Author: Mildred Pitts Walter)
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1983
Author: Virginia Hamilton. Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Illustrator: Peter Magubane. Black Child
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1982
Author: Mildred D. Taylor. Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Illustrator: John Steptoe. Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale From Senegal (Text adapted by Rosa Guy)
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1981
Author: Sidney Poitier. This Life
Illustrator: Ashley Bryan. Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
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1980
Author: Walter Dean Myers. The Young Landlords
Illustrator: Carole Byard. Cornrows (Author: Camille Yarbrough)
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1979
Author: Ossie Davis. Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglas
Illustrator: Tom Feelings. Something On My Mind (Author: Nikki Grimes)
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1978
Author: Eloise Greenfield. African Dream
Illustrator: Carole Byard. African Dream
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1977
Author: James Haskins. The Story of Stevie Wonder
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1976
Author: Pearl Baily. Duey's Tale
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1975
Author: Dorothy Robinson. The Legend of Africania
Illustrator: Herbert Temple. The Legend of Africania
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1974
Author: Sharon Bell Mathis. Ray Charles
Illustrator: George Ford. Ray Charles
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1973
Author: Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett. I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
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1972
Author: Elton C. Fax. Seventeen Black Artists
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1971
Author: Charlemae H. Rollins. Black Troubadore: Langston Hughes
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1970
Author: Lillie Patterson. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace
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