Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners 2010

Congratulations to the 2010 winners and honor award recipients!

Coretta Scott King Author Award: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, author of “Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal”

Coretta Scott King Author Honor: Tanita S. Davis, author of “Mare’s War”

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award: Charles R. Smith Jr., for “My People”

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor: E.B. Lewis for “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

The Coretta Scott King Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Walter Dean Myers

Coretta Scott King Steptoe for New Talent 2010: Kekla Magoon, author of “The Rock and the River”

Coretta Scott King Awards 2008 Winners

Congratulations to all the 2008 Coretta Scott King Award winners!

Coretta Scott King Author Award
Christopher Paul Curtis - Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic)

King Author Honor
November Blues - Sharon Draper (Atheneum)
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali - Charles R. Smith, Jr. (Candlewick Press)

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Ashley Bryan - Let It Shine (Atheneum)

King Illustrator Honor Books
The Secret Olivia Told Me illustrated by Nancy Devard (Just Us Books)
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo & Diane Dillon (The Blue Sky Press)

John Steptoe Award for New Talent - Author
Sundee T. Frazier - Brendan Buckley's Universe & Everything In It (Delacorte)

There was no John Steptoe New Talent - Illustrator award presented.

Essence Magazine - Kid's Literary Award Nominees

Essence Magazine will honor African-American writers via the Essence Literary Awards. The nominees for the awards--in fiction, nonfiction, children's, poetry, commentary/public affairs, memoir and photography were selected by the editors of Essence and are listed on the Essence website. The nominees in the Children's category are:

• Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine illustrated by Kadir Nelson/Scholastic
• Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel by Patricia Storace and Raul Colon/Jump at the Sun
• Marvelous World by Troy Cle/Simon & Schuster�s Children�s Publishing
• The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-mbachu/Jump at the Sun
• Sallie Gal and the Wall-a-Kee Man by Shelia P. Moses and Niki Daly/Scholastic

The winners will receive their awards during Black History Month, on February 7, 2008, at a ceremony in New York city, hosted by Hoda Kotb of the Today Show and Dr. Ian Smith.

2007 Cybils - Nominations now closed

Nominations for the Children's & YA Bloggers' Literary Awards - the Cybils - is now closed. What are the Cybils? From the site's website:

The public nominates their favorite children's books from 2007 in seven categories: Picture Books; Non-fiction Picture Books; Middle Grade fiction; Poetry; Young Adult fiction; Non-fiction (YA/MG); and Graphic Novels. ... When we say "the public," we mean it. . . . Anyone with an e-mail address may nominate one book per category. Then groups of bloggers get to work. First, a nominating committee reads ALL the titles in a given category. After nearly two arduous months, this committee winnows the nominees to five finalists. A second committee of bloggers considers the shortlist and, after much debate, chooses the best of the best for 2007.

You can see the titles the public has nominated at the Cybils' 2007 blog. The finalists will be announced on January 1, 2008 - and the winners on February 14.

Children's Africana Book Award Winners 2007

The Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) has announced the winners of the 2007 Children's Africana Book Awards. The Outreach Council annually honors outstanding authors and illustrators of children's books about Africa published in the United States.

• Best Book for Young Children 2007 goes to I Lost my Tooth in Africa by Penda Diakite and Baba Wague Diakite (illus.) Scholastic Press. A story of responsibility and growing up. Eight-year-old Amina visits Mali with her family - and loses her tooth - and finds adventure.
• Best Book for Older Readers 2007
  The Illustrator's Notebook by Mohieddin Ellabbad (Groundwood Books)
• Honor Book for Young Children 2007
  My Father's Shop by Satomi Ichikawa (Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2006)

Congratulations to each of the winners!