Awards & Winners

1980 Coretta Scott King Award

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Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

Walter Dean Myers

Honored for : The young landlords

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lessie Jones Little Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
Eloise Greenfield Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
Walter Dean Myers The young landlords
Berry Gordy Movin' up
James Haskins Andrew Young, man with a mission
James Haskins James Van DerZee
Ellease Southerland Let the Lion Eat Straw
Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators

Carole Byard

Honored for : Cornrows