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Coretta Scott King Awards
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| The Coretta Scott King Awards are presented annually by the American Library Association to honor African-American authors and illustrators who create outstanding books for children and young adults. Initially, the award was established in 1969 to recognize authors and then was expanded to include a separate award for illustrators in 1979. These awards are given to commemorate the life and work of the late Martin Luther King. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| We Are The Ship: Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson describes the glory years of Negro league baseball in the early 1900s, profiling its star athletes and highlighting the challenges faced by the players and the sacrifices made to live out their dreams and play the game they loved. Illustrations are from oil paintings by artist/author Kadir Nelson. 2009 Author Award Winner and Illustrator Honor Book We Are The Ship HC8328 $18.99 |
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| Keeping the Night Watch: A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear. 2009 Author Honor Book Keeping the Night Watch MC0202 $18.95 |
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| The Blacker The Berry: Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these many shades of black beautifully. The collection of poems, including "Golden Goodness," "Cranberry Red," and "Biscuit Brown," celebrate individuality and African American identity. 2009 Illustrator Award Winner and Author Honor Book The Blacker The Berry HC3752 $16.99 |
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| The Moon Over Star: Watching the 1969 moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on television, a young girl, on her family's farm in the town of Star, is inspired by their incredible achievement and quickly realizes that there is no such thing as dreaming too big when it comes to achieving personal goals. 2009 Illustrator Honor Book The Moon Over Star PP1073 $17.99 |
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| Before John was a Jazz Giant: Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South during the 1930s: church songs, preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the house-hold. John was surrounded by all kinds of vivid noises that shaped his own sound as a musician. With vibrant words and glowing colors, Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls compose an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane. 2009 Illustrator Honor Book Before John was a Jazz Giant MC9944 $16.95 |
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| Other CSK Award Books Available by entering the Title, Stock No. and Price on our Special Orders Page
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford BT5072 $19.95 |
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