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Coretta Scott King Book Awards 2023
The 2023 Coretta Scott King Book Awards went to Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (Author), Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison (Illustrator) and Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy and Janelle Washington and We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (John Steptoe New Talent). 6 books were Honor Books across 3 categories.
Winners
Illustrator
- Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritualsource (opens in a new tab)
John Steptoe New Talent
- Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movementsource (opens in a new tab)
- We Deserve Monumentssource (opens in a new tab)
Honor Books
Author
Illustrator
- Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Lovesource (opens in a new tab)
- Swim Teamsource (opens in a new tab)
- Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justicesource (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