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Coretta Scott King Book Awards 2019
The 2019 Coretta Scott King Book Awards went to A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield (Author), The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer and Ekua Holmes (Illustrator) and Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson and Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora (John Steptoe New Talent). 6 books were Honor Books across 3 categories.
Winners
Author
- A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919source (opens in a new tab)
Illustrator
- The Stuff of Starssource (opens in a new tab)
John Steptoe New Talent
- Monday's Not Comingsource (opens in a new tab)
- Thank You, Omu!source (opens in a new tab)
Honor Books
Author
Illustrator
- Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Racesource (opens in a new tab)
- Let the Children Marchsource (opens in a new tab)
- Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968source (opens in a new tab)
About the Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Author and Illustrator winners and honors, plus the John Steptoe Award for New Talent (author and illustrator recipients, one category), from each year's page on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table site. A book honored in both the Author and Illustrator categories appears once in each. Illustrator-category author fields name the writer, then the illustrator. No Steptoe award is listed for 2012 or 2013. The Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement honors people and is excluded.
Organization: American Library Association. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Goodreads Choice Awards 20 shared books
- National Book Awards 18 shared books
- Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards 17 shared books
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 17 shared books
- John Newbery Medal 14 shared books