Coretta Scott King Awards

Author Award: Illustrator Award:

Before the Ever After R-E-S-P-E-C-T:

Author: Jacqueline Woodson Aretha Franklin,
As a pro football star, ZJ’s dad has been everyone’s the Queen of Soul
hero. But lately his dad is having trouble
remembering things and seems to be angry all Illustrator: Frank Morrison
the time. ZJ’s mom explains it’s because of all Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
the head injuries his dad sustained during his
Aretha Franklin was born to sing. Her string
career. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he
of hit songs earned her the title “Queen of
has to figure out how to hold on tight to family
Soul,” multiple Grammy Awards and a place
traditions and recollections of the glory days, all
in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Aretha also
the while wondering what their past amounts to
spoke out against injustice and fought for
if his father can’t remember it.
civil rights.

2020 • New Kid 2019 • A

 Few Red Drops: 2018 • P
 iecing Me 2020 • The Undefeated 2019 • T
 he Stuff 2018 • Out of Wonder:
Author & Illustrator: The Chicago Race Together Illustrator: Kadir Nelson of Stars Poems
Jerry Craft Riot of 1919 Author: Renée Watson Author: Kwame Alexander Illustrator: Ekua Holmes Celebrating Poets
Author: Claire Hartfield Author: Marion Dane Bauer Illustrator: Ekua Holmes
Author: Kwame Alexander with
Chris Colderly and
Marjory Wentworth

2017 • M
 arch: 2016 • Gone Crazy 2015 • B
 rown Girl 2017 • R
 adiant Child: 2016 • T
 rombone Shorty 2015 • Firebird
Book Three in Alabama Dreaming The Story of Illustrator: Bryan Collier Illustrator: Christopher
Authors: J ohn Lewis and Author: Rita Author: Jacqueline Young Artist Jean- Author: Troy Andrews Myers
Andrew Aydin Williams-Garcia Woodson Michel Basquiat Author: Misty Copeland
Illustrator & Author:
Javaka Steptoe

2014 • P
 .S. Be Eleven 2013 • H
 and in Hand: Ten 2012 • H
 eart and Soul: The 2014 • K
 nock Knock: My 2013 • I, Too, Am America 2012 • Underground:
Author: Rita Black Men Who Story of America and Dad’s Dream for Me Illustrator: Bryan Collier Finding the Light
Williams-Garcia Changed America African Americans Illustrator: Bryan Collier Author: Langston Hughes to Freedom
Author: A
 ndrea Davis Author & Illustrator: Author: Daniel Beaty Illustrator & Author:
Pinkney Kadir Nelson Shane W. Evans

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