1999 Author Award Winner ⦁ Angela Johnson, author of Heaven (Simon & Schuster) 1999 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Michele Wood, illustrator of I See the Rhythm, written by Toyomi Igus (Children’s Book Press) 1999 Author Honor ⦁ Nikki Grimes, author of Jazmin’s Notebook (Dial Books) ⦁ Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan, authors of Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground (Henry Holt and Company) ⦁ Angela Johnson, author of The Other Side: Shorter Poems (Orchard Books) 1999 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Floyd Cooper, illustrator of I Have Heard of a Land, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins) ⦁ E. B. Lewis, illustrator of The Bat Boy and His Violin, written by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster) ⦁ Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children) 1999 John Steptoe Award for New Talent ⦁ Sharon Flake, author of The Skin I'm In (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion) ⦁ Eric Velasquez, illustrator of The Piano Man, written by Debbie Chocolate (Walker Books for Young Readers)
1998 Author Award Winner ⦁ Sharon M. Draper, author of Forged by Fire (Atheneum) 1998 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Javaka Steptoe, illustrator of In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, written by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low) 1998 Author Honor ⦁ James Haskins, author of Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion) ⦁ Joyce Hansen, author of I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Scholastic) 1998 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry, published by Jean Karl, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. ⦁ Christopher Myers, illustrator of Harlem, written by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic) ⦁ Baba Wagué Diakité, illustrator of The Hunterman and the Crocodile (Scholastic) 1998 John Steptoe Award for New Talent - No award presented.
1997 Author Award Winner ⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Slam (Scholastic) 1997 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, written by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers) 1997 Author Honor ⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Scholastic) 1997 Illustrator Honor ⦁ R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.) ⦁ Reynold Ruffins, illustrator of Running the Road to ABC, written by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) ⦁ Synthia Saint James, illustrator of Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, written by Karen English (BridgeWater Books) 1997 John Steptoe Award for New Talent ⦁ Martha Southgate, author of Another Way to Dance (Delacorte)
1996 Author Award Winner ⦁ Virginia Hamilton, author of Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press) 1996 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Tom Feelings, illustrator of The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo (Dial Books for Young Readers) 1996 Author Honor ⦁ Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 (Delacorte) ⦁ Rita Williams-Garcia, author of Like Sisters on the Homefront (Delacorte) ⦁ Jacqueline Woodson, author of From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press) 1996 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Her Stories, written by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press) ⦁ Brian Pinkney, illustrator of The Faithful Friend, written by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 1996 John Steptoe Award for New Talent No award presented.
1995 Author Award Winner ⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (Scholastic) 1995 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ James Ransome, illustrator of The Creation, text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House) 1995 Author Honor ⦁ Joyce Hansen, author of The Captive (Scholastic) ⦁ Jacqueline Woodson, author of I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This (Delacorte) ⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack , authors of Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League (Scholastic) 1995 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Terea Shaffer, illustrator of The Singing Man, written by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House) ⦁ Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Meet Danitra Brown, written by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) 1995 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (inaugural year) ⦁ Sharon Draper, author of Tears of a Tiger (Simon & Schuster)
1994 Author Award Winner ⦁ Angela Johnson, author of Toning the Sweep (Orchard) 1994 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Tom Feelings, illustrator of Soul Looks Back in Wonder, edited by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers) 1994 Author Honor ⦁ Joyce Carol Thomas, author of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins) ⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic) 1994 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins) ⦁ James Ransome, illustrator of Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, written by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)
1993 Author Award Winner ⦁ Patricia C. McKissack, author of The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Knopf) 1993 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Kathleen Atkins Wilson, illustrator of The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights) 1993 Author Honor ⦁ Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Mississippi Challenge (Bradbury) ⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? (Scholastic) ⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic) 1993 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Wil Clay, illustrator of Little Eight John, written by Jan Wahl (Lodestar) ⦁ Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Sukey and the Mermaid, written by Robert San Souci (Four Winds) ⦁ Carole Byard, illustrator of Working Cotton, written by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)
1992 Author Award Winner ⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom (HarperCollins) 1992 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Faith Ringgold, illustrator of Tar Beach (Crown) 1992 Author Honor ⦁ Eloise Greenfield, author of Night on Neighborhood Street, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial) 1992 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Ashley Bryan, illustrator of All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals (Atheneum) ⦁ Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Night on Neighborhood Street, written by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)
1991 Author Award Winner ⦁ Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Road to Memphis (Dial) 1991 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Aida, written by Leontyne Price (Harcourt) 1991 Author Honor ⦁ James Haskins, author of Black Dance in America (Crowell) ⦁ Angela Johnson, author of When I Am Old with You (Orchard)
1990 Author Award Winner ⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker) 1990 Illustrator Award Winner ⦁ Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Nathaniel Talking, written by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly) 1990 Author Honor ⦁ Eloise Greenfield, author of Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly) ⦁ Virginia Hamilton, author of The Bells of Christmas, illustrated by Lambert Davis (Harcourt) ⦁ Lillie Patterson, author of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement (Facts on File) 1990 Illustrator Honor ⦁ Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Talking Eggs, written by Robert San Souci (Dial)
⦁ Angela Johnson, author of Heaven (Simon & Schuster)
1999 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Michele Wood, illustrator of I See the Rhythm, written by Toyomi Igus (Children’s Book Press)
1999 Author Honor
⦁ Nikki Grimes, author of Jazmin’s Notebook (Dial Books)
⦁ Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan, authors of Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground (Henry Holt and Company)
⦁ Angela Johnson, author of The Other Side: Shorter Poems (Orchard Books)
1999 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Floyd Cooper, illustrator of I Have Heard of a Land, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
⦁ E. B. Lewis, illustrator of The Bat Boy and His Violin, written by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster)
⦁ Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion Books for Children)
1999 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
⦁ Sharon Flake, author of The Skin I'm In (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
⦁ Eric Velasquez, illustrator of The Piano Man, written by Debbie Chocolate (Walker Books for Young Readers)
1998 Author Award Winner
⦁ Sharon M. Draper, author of Forged by Fire (Atheneum)
1998 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Javaka Steptoe, illustrator of In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, written by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low)
1998 Author Honor
⦁ James Haskins, author of Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion)
⦁ Joyce Hansen, author of I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Scholastic)
1998 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry , published by Jean Karl, Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
⦁ Christopher Myers, illustrator of Harlem, written by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
⦁ Baba Wagué Diakité, illustrator of The Hunterman and the Crocodile (Scholastic)
1998 John Steptoe Award for New Talent - No award presented.
1997 Author Award Winner
⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Slam (Scholastic)
1997 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, written by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)
1997 Author Honor
⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Scholastic)
1997 Illustrator Honor
⦁ R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books Inc.)
⦁ Reynold Ruffins, illustrator of Running the Road to ABC, written by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
⦁ Synthia Saint James, illustrator of Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, written by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)
1997 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
⦁ Martha Southgate, author of Another Way to Dance (Delacorte)
1996 Author Award Winner
⦁ Virginia Hamilton, author of Her Stories, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
1996 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Tom Feelings, illustrator of The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo (Dial Books for Young Readers)
1996 Author Honor
⦁ Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 (Delacorte)
⦁ Rita Williams-Garcia, author of Like Sisters on the Homefront (Delacorte)
⦁ Jacqueline Woodson, author of From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
1996 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Her Stories, written by Virginia Hamilton (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
⦁ Brian Pinkney, illustrator of The Faithful Friend, written by Robert San Souci (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
1996 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
No award presented.
1995 Author Award Winner
⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (Scholastic)
1995 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ James Ransome, illustrator of The Creation, text by James Weldon Johnson (Holiday House)
1995 Author Honor
⦁ Joyce Hansen, author of The Captive (Scholastic)
⦁ Jacqueline Woodson, author of I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This (Delacorte)
⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack , authors of Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League (Scholastic)
1995 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Terea Shaffer, illustrator of The Singing Man, written by Angela Shelf Medearis (Holiday House)
⦁ Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Meet Danitra Brown, written by Nikki Grimes (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)
1995 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (inaugural year)
⦁ Sharon Draper, author of Tears of a Tiger (Simon & Schuster)
1994 Author Award Winner
⦁ Angela Johnson, author of Toning the Sweep (Orchard)
1994 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Tom Feelings, illustrator of Soul Looks Back in Wonder, edited by Phyllis Fogelman (Dial Books for Young Readers)
1994 Author Honor
⦁ Joyce Carol Thomas, author of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)
⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic)
1994 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Floyd Cooper, illustrator of Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (HarperCollins)
⦁ James Ransome, illustrator of Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, written by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)
1993 Author Award Winner
⦁ Patricia C. McKissack, author of The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Knopf)
1993 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Kathleen Atkins Wilson, illustrator of The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth, retold by David A. Anderson/SANKOFA (Sights)
1993 Author Honor
⦁ Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Mississippi Challenge (Bradbury)
⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? (Scholastic)
⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic)
1993 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Wil Clay, illustrator of Little Eight John, written by Jan Wahl (Lodestar)
⦁ Brian Pinkney, illustrator of Sukey and the Mermaid, written by Robert San Souci (Four Winds)
⦁ Carole Byard, illustrator of Working Cotton, written by Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)
1992 Author Award Winner
⦁ Walter Dean Myers, author of Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom (HarperCollins)
1992 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Faith Ringgold, illustrator of Tar Beach (Crown)
1992 Author Honor
⦁ Eloise Greenfield, author of Night on Neighborhood Street, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Dial)
1992 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Ashley Bryan, illustrator of All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals (Atheneum)
⦁ Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Night on Neighborhood Street, written by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)
1991 Author Award Winner
⦁ Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Road to Memphis (Dial)
1991 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Aida, written by Leontyne Price (Harcourt)
1991 Author Honor
⦁ James Haskins, author of Black Dance in America (Crowell)
⦁ Angela Johnson, author of When I Am Old with You (Orchard)
1990 Author Award Winner
⦁ Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack, authors of A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker)
1990 Illustrator Award Winner
⦁ Jan Spivey Gilchrist, illustrator of Nathaniel Talking, written by Eloise Greenfield (Black Butterfly)
1990 Author Honor
⦁ Eloise Greenfield, author of Nathaniel Talking, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Black Butterfly)
⦁ Virginia Hamilton, author of The Bells of Christmas, illustrated by Lambert Davis (Harcourt)
⦁ Lillie Patterson, author of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement (Facts on File)
1990 Illustrator Honor
⦁ Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Talking Eggs, written by Robert San Souci (Dial)