Author Winner
- Africa Dream byCall Number: E G837af 1977ISBN: 0381900614Publication Date: 1977-10-01A black child's dreams are filled with the images of the people and places of Africa.
Author Honors
- The Days When the Animals Talked by Presents more than 20 Afro-American folktales featuring the escapades of Brer Rabbit and more than 10 tales describing the lives of Afro-American slaves.Call Number: 398.2 F273dISBN: 0695807552Publication Date: 1977-01-01
- Marvin and Tige by An alcoholic former advertising executive and a street-wise eleven-year old from an Atlanta slum develop a close, loving friendship.Call Number: F G463m 1977ISBN: 0312517831Publication Date: 1977-09-01
- Mary McLeod Bethune by "The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest." These are the words of Mary McLeod Bethune. She worked her whole life to make the world a better place. As a child, she loved to read. As a woman, she loved to teach. She started a school; she founded a hospital. Everywhere she saw a need, she searched for a solution.Call Number: B B465g 1977ISBN: 0064461688Publication Date: 1994-07-21
- Barbara Jordan by A biography of the Congresswoman from Texas, the first black woman ever to be elected to that office from the South.Call Number: B J761h 1977ISBN: 0803704526
- Coretta Scott King by A biography of the wife of the slain civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr.Call Number: B K5845p 1977ISBN: 0811645851Publication Date: 1977-01-01
Illustrator Winner
Africa Dream by Call Number: E G837afr 1977ISBN: 0690047762Publication Date: 1989-08-29An African-American child dreams of long-ago Africa, where she sees animals, shops in a marketplace, reads strange words from an old book, and returns to the village where her long-ago granddaddy welcomes her. ?Greenfield's lyrical telling and Byard's marvelous pictures make this book close to an ideal adventure for children, black or white.' -Publishers Weekly. 1978 Coretta Scott King Award
Illustrator Honors
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