• The Legend of Buddy Bush, by Shelia P. Moses
• Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives, by Sharon G. Flake
• Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem, by Marilyn Nelson

Winner:  The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson
Honor Books:

• Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States, by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
• Locomotion, by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Battle of Jericho, by Sharon M. Draper

Winner:  Beautiful Blackbird, illustrated and written by Ashley Bryan
Honor Books:

• Almost to Freedom, illustrated by Colin Bootman, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
• Thunder Rose, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Jerdine Nolen

Author:  The Way a Door Closes, by Hope Anita Smith.  Illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Illustrator:  My Family Plays Music, illustrated by Elbrite Brown.  Written by Judy Cox

Author Award:

Winner:  Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
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

Winner:  Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Nikki Grimes
Honor Books:

• Rap A Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles-Think of That, illustrated and written by Leo and Diane Dillion
• Visiting Langston, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Willie Perdomo

Author:  Chill Wind, by Janet McDonald
Illustrator:  The Moon Ring, illustrated and written by Randy DuBurke

Author Award:

Winner:  The Land by Mildred  D. Taylor
Honor Books:

• Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
• Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Winner:  Goin’ Someplace Special, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
Honor Book:  Martin’s Big Words, illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Doreen Rappoport

Illustrator:  Freedom Summer, illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue, written by Deborah Wiles

Author Award:

Winner:  Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
Honor Book:  Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney,  illustrated by Stephen Alcorn

Winner:  Uptown illustrated and written by Bryan Collier
Honor Books:

• Freedom River illustrated and written by Bryan Collier
• Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; text by Anne Rockwell
• Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys illustrated by E.B. Lewis; text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

No award given

Author Award:

Winner:  Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books:

• Francie by Karen English
• Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Winner:  In the Time of the Drums, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson
Honor Books:

• My Rows and Piles of Coins, illustrated by E. B. Lewis; text by Tololwa M. Mollel
• Black Cat illustrated and written by Christopher Myers

No award given

Author Award:

Winner:  Heaven by Angela Johnson
Honor Books:

• Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes
• Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan
• The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson

Winner:  I see the rhythm, illustrated by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus
Honor Books:

• I Have Heard of a Land, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas
• The Bat Boy and His Violin, illustrated by E.B. Lewis; text by Gavin Curtis
• Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Author:  The Skin I'm In, by Sharon Flake
Illustrator:  The Piano Man, illustrated by Eric Velasquez, written by Debbie Chocolate

Author Award:

Winner:  Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Honor Books:

• Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins
• I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, by Joyce Hansen

Winner:  In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe; text by Alan Schroeder
Honor Books:

• Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry, by Ashley Bryan
• Harlem, illustrated by Christopher Myers; text by Walter Dean Myers
• The Hunterman and the Crocodile, by Baba Wagué Diakité

No award given

Author Award:

Winner:  Slam, by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Book:  Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts, by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack

Winner:  Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder
Honor Books:

• The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, illustrated by Gregorie Christie; edited by Davida Adedjouma
• Running the Road to ABC, illustrated by Reynold Ruffins; text by Denize Lauture
• Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, illustrated by Synthia Saint James; text by Karen English

Another Way to Dance by Martha Southgate

Author Award:

Winner:  Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books:

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
• From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson

Winner:  The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings
Honor Books:

• Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton
• The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci

No award given

Author Award:

Winner:  Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
Honor Books:

• The Captive by Joyce Hansen 
• I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
• Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack

Winner:  The Creation, illustrated by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson
Honor Books:

• The Singing Man, illustrated by Terea Shaffer; text by Angela Shelf Medearis
• Meet Danitra Brown, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Nikki Grimes

Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper

Author Award:

Winner:  Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Honor Books:

• Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas; ill. by Floyd Cooper
• Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers

Winner:  Soul Looks Back in Wonder, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman
Honor Books:

• Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; text by Joyce Carol Thomas
• Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, illustrated by James Ransome; text by Margaree King Mitchell

Author Award:

Winner:  Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia A. McKissack
Honor Books:

• Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter
• Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

Winner:  The Origin of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth, illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson
Honor Books:

• Little Eight John, illustrated by Wil Clay; text by Jan Wahl
• Sukey and the Mermaid, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text by Robert San Souci
• Working Cotton, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Sherley Anne Williams

Author Award:

Winner:  Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Book:  Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Winner:  Tar Beach, illustrated and written by Faith Ringgold
Honor Books:

• All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals, illustrated and selected by Ashley Bryan
• Night on Neighborhood Street, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, text by Eloise Greenfield

Author Award:

Winner:  The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Books:

• Black Dance in America by James Haskins
• When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson

Winner:  Aida, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price

Author Award:

Winner:  A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
Honor Books:

• Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
• The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
• Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson

Winner:  Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield
Honor Books:  The Talking Eggs, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, text by Robert San Souci

Author Award:

Winner:  Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:

• A Thief in the Village and Other Stories by James Berry
• Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton

Winner:  Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
Honor Books:

• Under the Sunday Tree, illustrated by Amos Ferguson; text by Eloise Greenfield
• Storm in the Night, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mary Stolz

Author Award:

Winner:  The Friendship by Mildred L. Taylor
Honor Books:

• An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
• The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester

Winner:  Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale illustrated and written by John Steptoe
Honor Books:

• What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan; selected by John Langstaff
• The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, illustrated by Joe Sam; compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al

Author Award:

Winner:  Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
Honor Books:

• Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
• Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen

Winner:  Half a Moon and One Whole Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwagon
Honor Books:

• Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales by Ashley Bryan
• C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings

Author Award:

Winner:  The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton; ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon
Honor Books:

• Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton 
• Trouble’s Child by Mildred Pitts Walter

Winner:  The Patchwork Quilt, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy
Honor Book:  The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Virginia Hamilton

Author Award:

Winner:  Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:

• Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
• A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton

Author Award:

Winner:  Everett Anderson’s Good-bye by Lucille Clifton
Special Citation:  The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, compiler
Honor Books:

• The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
• Lena Horne by James Haskins
• Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas
• Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter

Winner:  My Mama Needs Me, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter

Author Award:

Winner:  Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books:  This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester

Winner:  Black Child by Peter Mugabane
Honor Books:

• All the Colors of the Race, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Arnold Adoff
• I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, illustrated by Ashley Bryan
• Just Us Women, illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Jeanette Caines

Author Award:

Winner:  Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Books:

• Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
• Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
• Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane

Winner:  Mother Crocodile; an Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Rosa Guy
Honor Books:  Daydreamers, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Eloise Greenfield

Author Award:

Winner:  This Life by Sidney Poitier
Honor Books:  Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux

Winner:  Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
Honor Books:

• Grandmama’s Joy, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Eloise Greenfield
• Count on Your Fingers African Style, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Claudia Zaslavsky

Author Award:

Winner:  The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:

• Movin’ Up by Berry Gordy
• Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
• Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission by James Haskins
• James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man by James Haskins
• Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland

Winner:  Cornrows, illustrated by Carole Byard; text by Camille Yarborough

Author Award:

Winner:  Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis
Honor Books:

• Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson
• I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson 
• Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
• Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner

Winner:  Something on My Mind, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes

Author Award:

Winner:  Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield; illustrated by Carole Bayard
Honor Books:

• The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner
• Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass
• Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
• Barbara Jordan by James Haskins
• Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson 
• Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart

Winner:  Africa Dream, illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield

Author Award:  The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins

Illustrator Award:  no award given

Author Award:  Duey’s Tale by Pearl Bailey

Illustrator Award:  no award given

Author Award:  The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson

Illustrator Award: no award given

Author Award:  Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis; illustrated by George Ford

Illustrator Award:  Ray Charles, illustrated by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis

I Never Had It Made, by Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett

Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax

Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson