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More ALA Award Winners...Lots of great books to keep you busy.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, 
published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial 
and lasting contribution to literature for children. 

The 2011 winner is Tomie 
dePaola, author and illustrator of over 200 books, including: “ 26 Fairmont 
Avenue ” (Putnam, 1999), “The Legend of the Poinsettia” (Putnam, 1994), “Oliver 
Button Is a Sissy” (Harcourt, 1979) and “Strega Nona” (Prentice-Hall, 1975).


Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author of 
outstanding books for children and young adults 



One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is the 2011 

published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins 
Publishers.

Corretta Scott King Author Honor Books

Lockdown by Walter 
Dean Myers and published by Amistad

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown and 
Company

Yummy: The Last Days of a 
Southside Shorty by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy DuBurkeand 
published by Lee & Low Books Inc.



Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award recognizing an African American
illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults


Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier.  Written by Laban Carrick Hill 
and published by Little, Brown and Company

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: 
A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, by 
Gary Golio and published by Clarion Books

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award


Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon published by Candlewick Press


Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Illustrator) Award


Seeds of Change illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, written by Jen Cullerton Johnson and published 
by Lee & Low Books Inc.