Keep the Red Carpet Rolling

The winners keep coming in the world of children’s books! Named after the activist wife of Martin Luther King Jr., the Coretta Scott King Awards recognize the best writing and illustrating by Black authors for children during the past year.

Author Award:
In One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two little sisters spend the summer of 1968 with their estranged mother. The mother would rather write revolutionary poetry, so the girls spend their days at a community center run by the Black Panther Party.





This year there are three honor books as well:


Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri and illustrated by Randy DuBurke

Illustrator Award:

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Laban Carrick Hill is the true story of a slave who wrote poems and carved them into pots that he sculpted.


There is one honor book:

Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix illustrated by Javaka Steptoe and written by Gary Golio



There are also awards for the best new African American author and illustrator for children:
Best New Author:                 Best New Illustrator:
                

Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon
Seeds of Change illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler and written by Jen Cullerton Johnson

- Miss Emily