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| 2008 | Honor Books
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith, Jr. (illustrated by Bryan Collier)
November Blues by Sharon M. Draper
Author
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon
The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy
Illustrator
Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan
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| 2007 | Author Award Winner
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Honor Book
The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
Illustrator Award Winner
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Kadir Nelson (text by Carole Boston Weatherford)
Honor Books
Jazz by Christopher Myers (text by Walter Dean Myers)
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes by Benny Andrews (edited by David Roessel & Arnolld Rampersad)
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| 2006 | 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 (illustrated by Philippe Lardy)
Illustrator Award Winner
Rosa by Bryan Collier (text by Nikki Giovanni)
Honor Book
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by R. Gregory Christie
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| 2005 | Author Award Winner
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
Honor Books
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake
Legend of Buddy Brush, The by Sheila P. Moses
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
Illustrator Award Winner
Ellington Was Not a Street by Kadir Nelson
Honor Books
God Bless the Child by Jerry Pinkney (text by BIllie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.)
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Leo and Diane Dillon (text by Virginia Hamilton)
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| 2004 | Author Award Winners
First Part Last, The by Angela Johnson
Days of Jubille: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
Honor Books
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Battle of Jericho, The by Sharon M. Draper
Illustrator Award Winner
Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
Honor Books
Almost to Freedom by Colin Bootman
Thunder Rose illustrated by Kadir Nelson
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| 2003 | Honor Books
The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes (illustrated by E.B. Lewis)
Author
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Honor Books
Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That by Leo and Diane Dillion
Visiting Langston by Bryan Collier
Illustrator
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by E.B. Lewis (text by Nikkie Grimes)
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| 2002 | Honor Books
Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Author
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Book
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bryan Collier (text by Doreen Rappaport)
Illustrator
Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney
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| 2001 | Honor Book
Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (illustrated by Stephen Alcorn)
Author
Miracle's Boys (Full Screen) by Jacqueline Woodson
Honor Books
Freedom River by Bryan Collier
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by R. Gregory Christie (text by Anne Rockwell)
Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys by E.B. Lewis (text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard)
Illustrator
Uptown by Bryan Collier
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| 2000 | Author
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator
In the Time of the Drums by Brian Pickney
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| 1999 | Author
Heaven by Angela Johnson
Illustrator
i see the rhythm by Michele Wood
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| 1998 | Author
Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Illustrator
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka Steptoe
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| 1997 | Author
Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Jerry Pinkney (text by Alan Schroeder)
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| 1996 | Author
Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton (illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon)
Illustrator
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (introduction by John Henrik Clarke)
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| 1995 | Author
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Illustrator
The Creation by James Ransome (text by James Weldon Johnson)
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| 1994 | Author
Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Illustrator
Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Tom Feelings
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| 1993 | Author
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patrica McKissack
Illustrator
The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by Kathleen Atkins Wilson (text by David A. Anderson)
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| 1992 | Author
Now Is Your Time! The African-Americian Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
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| 1991 | Author
The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator
Aida by Leo and Diane Dillon (text by Leontyne Price)
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| 1990 | Author
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Illustrator
Nathaniel Talking by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (text by Eloise Greenfield)
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| 1989 | Author
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator
Mirandy and Brother Wind by Jerry Pinkney (text by Patricia McKissack)
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| 1988 | Author
The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
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| 1987 | Author
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
Illustrator
Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Jerry Pinkney (text by Crecent Dragonwagon)
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| 1986 | Author
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Illustrator
The Patchwork Quilt by Jerry Pinkney (text by Valerie Flournoy)
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| 1985 | Author
Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
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| 1984 | Author
Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
Illustrator
My Mama Needs Me by Pat Cummings (text by Mildred Pitts Walter)
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| 1983 | Author
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virgina Hamilton
Illustrator
Black Child by Peter Magubane
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| 1982 | Author
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale From Senegal by John Steptoe (text adapted by Rosa Guy)
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| 1981 | Author
This Life by Sidney Poitier
Illustrator
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
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| 1980 | Author
The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator
Cornrows by Carole Byard (text by Camille Yarbrough)
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| 1979 | Author
Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
Illustrator
Something on My Mind by Tom Feelings (text by Nikki Grimes)
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| 1978 | Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield (illustrated by Carole Byard)
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| 1977 | The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
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| 1976 | Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey
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| 1975 | The Legend of Africania by Dorothy Robinson (illustrated by Herbert Temple)
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| 1974 | Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis (illustrated by George Ford)
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| 1973 | I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
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| 1972 | Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax
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| 1971 | Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae H. Rollins
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| 1970 | Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
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