Awards & Winners

1997 Coretta Scott King Award

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Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

Walter Dean Myers

Honored for : Slam!

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Patricia McKissack
Fredrick McKissack
Walter Dean Myers Slam!
Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Gregorie Christie The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children
Reynold Ruffins Running the Road to ABC
Synthia Saint James Neeny coming, Neeny going
Jerry Pinkney
John Steptoe New Talent Award

Martha Southgate

Honored for : Another Way to Dance