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| 2013 (Illustrator) |
| I, Too, Am America |
written by Langston Hughes and illustrated by Bryan Collier
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| 2010 (Illustrator) |
| My People |
illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr., written by Langston Hughes
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| 2009 (Illustrator) |
| The blacker the berry : poems |
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by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
School Library Journal
: Gr 1–4—The varieties of African-American ethnic heritage are often rendered inv ...More |
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| 2008 (Illustrator) |
| Let it Shine |
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Ashley Bryan
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Bryan ( Beautiful Blackbird) again proves himself a maestro with scissors ( ...More |
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| 2008 (Author) |
| Elijah of Buxton |
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Christopher Paul Curtis
Publishers Weekly
: Elijah Freeman, 11, has two claims to fame. He was the first child born free to former slaves in ...More |
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| 2007 (Author) |
| Copper Sun |
Sharon Draper
Publishers Weekly: Draper's ( Forged by Fire) historical novel takes on an epic sweep as it chronicles the ...More |
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| 2006 (Illustrator) |
| Rosa |
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Nikki Giovanni
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Giovanni ( The Sun Is So Quiet) and Collier ( Uptown) offer a moving ...More |
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| 2005 (Illustrator) |
| Ellington Was Not a Street |
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Ntozake Shange
Publishers Weekly
: At once personal and universal, Shange's poem, "Mood Indigo" (published in her 1983 po ...More |
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| 2004 (Author) |
| The First Part Last |
Angela Johnson
Publishers Weekly
: In this companion novel, Johnson's fans learn just how Bobby, the single father for whom Marley ...More |
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| 2004 (Illustrator) |
| Beautiful Blackbird |
Ashley Bryan
Publishers Weekly
: Storyteller Bryan's (What a Wonderful World) singular voice provides rhythm and sound effects th ...More |
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| 2003 (Author) |
| Bronx Masquerade |
Nikki Grimes
Publishers Weekly
: When a high school teacher in the Bronx begins to host open-mike poetry in his classroom on Frid ...More |
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| 2002 (Illustrator) |
| Goin Someplace Special |
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Jerry Pinkney
Publishers Weekly
: McKissack draws from her childhood in Nashville for this instructive picture book. "I don't ...More |
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| 2001 (Author) |
| Miracles Boys |
Jacqueline Woodson
Publishers Weekly
: Once again, Woodson (If You Come Softly; From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun) reveals a keen under ...More |
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| 2001 (Illustrator) |
| Uptown |
Bryan Collier
Publishers Weekly: "Collier's watercolor and collage artwork effectively blends a boy's idealism with ...More |
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| 2000 (Author) |
| Bud, Not Buddy |
Christopher Paul Curtis
Library Journal
: Gr 4-7-Motherless Bud shares his amusingly astute rules of life as he hits the road to find the ja ...More |
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| 2000 (Illustrator) |
| In the Time of the Drums |
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Kim L. Siegelson and Brian Pinkney
Publishers Weekly
: Siegelsons (The Terrible, Wonderful Tellin at Hog Hammock) lyrical retelling of a Gullah legend ...More |
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| 1999 (Author) |
| Heaven |
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Angela Johnson
Publishers Weekly
: As in her Gone from Home (reviewed above), Johnson here explores the themes of what makes a plac ...More |
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| 1998 (Author) |
| Forged by Fire |
Sharon Draper
School Library Journal
: Gr 7-10--Gerald, a battered and neglected African-American child, is severely burned in a f ...More |
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| 1998 (Illustrator) |
| In Daddys Arms I Am Tall |
Javaka Steptoe
Publishers Weekly
: This stunning homage to fathers offers a textured potpourri of voices and visuals. Love, pain, r ...More |
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| 1997 (Author) |
| Slam |
Walter Dean Myers
Publisher's Weekly
: A love of basketball isn't necessary to enjoy this gritty, feelingly told tale, but it would ce ...More |
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| 1997 (Illustrator) |
| Minty |
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Jerry Pinkney
Publisher's Weekly
: This fictionalized account of Tubman's childhood on a Maryland plantation provides a cruel snap ...More |
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| 1996 (Author) |
| Her Stories |
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Virginia Hamilton
Publishers Weekly
: Hamilton fans who have wondered what happened to Cammy Coleman after the death of her cousin Pat ...More |
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| 1996 (Illustrator) |
| The Middle Passage |
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Tom Feelings
School Library Journal
: YA--Feelings's art speaks to the soul in this magnificent visual record of the Black Diaspo ...More |
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| 1995 (Illustrator) |
| The Creation |
James Ransome
School Library Journal
: Gr 1-4-An earlier edition of Johnson's fine poem of the Harlem Renaissance failed to fi ...More |
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