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2004 - Author Award Winner -
First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Author Honor Book - Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the
United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
Author Honor Book - Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Author Honor Book - The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
2003 - Author Award Winner - Bronx
Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Author Honor Book - The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
Author Honor Book - Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator
Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
2002 - Author Award Winner -The
Land by Mildred Taylor
Author Honor Book - Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
Author Honor Book - Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001 - Author Award Winner -
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
Author Honor Book - Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom
Fighters by Andrea Davis
2000 - Author Award Winner -
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Author Honor Book - Francie by Karen English
Author Honor Book - Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American
Whalers by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
Author Honor Book - Monster by Walter Dean Myers
1999 - Author Award Winner -
Heaven by Angela Johnson
Author Honor Book - Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
Author Honor Book - Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story
of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary
McGowan
Author Honor Book - The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela
Johnson
1998 - Author Award Winner - Forged
by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Author Honor Book - Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of Civil
Rights Movement by James Haskins
Author Honor Book - I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The
Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen
1997 - Author Award Winner -
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
Author Honor Book - Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
1996 - Author Award Winner -
Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton
Author Honor Book - The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 by Christopher
Paul Curtis
Author Honor Book - Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
Author Honor Book - From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline
Woodson
1995 - Author Award Winner - Christmas
in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. and
Frederick L. McKissack
Author Honor Book - The Captive by Joyce Hansen
Author Honor Book - I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by
Jacqueline Woodson
Author Honor Book - Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball
League by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
1994 - Author Award Winner - Toning
the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Author Honor Book - Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce
Carol Thomas
Author Honor Book - Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter
Dean Myers
1993 - Author Award Winner -
Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia
A. McKissack
Author Honor Book - Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter
Author Honor Book - Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? By Patricia
C. and Frederick L. McKissack
Author Honor Book - Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean
Myers
1992 - Author Award Winner - Now
Is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter
Dean Myers
Author Honor Book - Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield
1991 - Author Award Winner -
The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Author Honor Book - Black Dance in America by James Haskins
Author Honor Book - When I Am Old With You by Angela
Johnson
1990 - Author Award Winner -
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia
C. and Frederick L. McKissack
Author Honor Book - Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
Author Honor Book - The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
Author Honor Book - Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom
Movement by Lillie Patterson
1989 - Author Award Winner -Fallen
Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Author Honor Book - A Thief in the Village and Other Stories
by James Berry
Author Honor Book - Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of
a Fugitive Slave
by Virginia Hamilton
1988 - Author Award Winner - The
Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor
Author Honor Book - An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
Author Honor Book - The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures
of Brer Rabbit
by Julius Lester
1987 - Author Award Winner -
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
by Mildred Pitts Walter
Author Honor Book - Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African
Folk Tales
by Ashley Bryan
Author Honor Book - Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen
1986 - Author Award Winner -The
People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Virginia Hamilton
Author Honor Book - Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
Author Honor Book - Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts
Walter
1985 - Author Award Winner - Motown
and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
Author Honor Book - Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
Author Honor Book - A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton
1984 - Author Award Winner -
Everett Anderson's Good-bye by Lucille Clifton
Special Citation - The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. compiled
by Coretta Scott King
Author Honor Book - The Magical Adventure of Pretty Pearl
by Virginia Hamilton
Author Honor Book - Lena Horne by James Haskins
Author Honor Book - Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas
Author Honor Book - Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter
1983 - Author Award Winner - Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
Author Honor Book - This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
Author Honor Book - Black Child by Peter Mugabane
1982 - Author Award Winner -
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
Author Honor Book - Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Author Honor Book - Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
Author Honor Book - Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane
1981 - Author Award Winner -
This Life by Sidney Poitier
Author Honor Book - Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
by Alexia De Veaux
Author Honor Book - Movin' Up by Berry Gordy
Author Honor Book - Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir
by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
Author Honor Book - James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man
by James Haskins
Author Honor Book - Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
1979 - Author Award Winner - Escape
to Freedom by Ossie Davis
Author Honor Book - Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson
Author Honor Book - I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf by Jeanne
W. Peterson
Author Honor Book - Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
Author Honor Book - Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner
1978 - Author Award Winner -
Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield
Author Honor Book - The Days When the Animals Talked: Black
Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner
Author Honor Book - Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass
Author Honor Book - Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
Author Honor Book - Barbara Jordan by James Haskins
Author Honor Book - Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson
Author Honor Book - Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman,
the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart
1977 - Author Award Winner - The
Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
1976 - Author Award Winner - Duey's
Tale by Pearl Bailey
1975 - Author Award Winner - The
Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson
1974 - Author Award Winner - Ray
Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis
1973 - Author Award Winner - I
Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson as told
to Alfred Duckett
1972 - Author Award Winner -
17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax
1971 - Author Award Winner - Black
Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
1970 - Author Award Winner -
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace
by Lillie Patterson
