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Coretta Scott King Book Awards 2025
The 2025 Coretta Scott King Book Awards went to Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... by Jason Reynolds (Author), My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales and C.G. Esperanza (Illustrator) and Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows and Jamiel Law and Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer (John Steptoe New Talent). 6 books were Honor Books across 3 categories.
Winners
Illustrator
- My Daddy Is a Cowboysource (opens in a new tab)
John Steptoe New Talent
- Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwinsource (opens in a new tab)
- Kwame Crashes the Underworldsource (opens in a new tab)
Honor Books
Author
Illustrator
- Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott Kingsource (opens in a new tab)
- Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCaravasource (opens in a new tab)
- Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storytellersource (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