Honors African-American authors and illustrators.

Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith – writer of four volumes about the history of the Coretta Scott King Award

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon for Zora and Me

Sonia Lynn Sadler for Seeds of Change

Illustration Awards

Honor Book

Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow by Steptoe

Winner

Bryan Collier for Dave the Potter – HURRAH! That is so awesome!!!

Author Awards

Honor Books

Walter Dean Myers for Lockdown

Jewell Parker Rhodes for Ninth Ward

G. Neri for Yummy  – Hurrah!

Winner

Rita Williams-Garcia for One Crazy Summer – definitely not a surprise and very well-deserved