Author Award: One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Illustrator Award: Dave the Potter: artist, poet, slave, by Laban Hill, illustrated by Bryan Collier

Honor Books
Author:
Lockdown, by Walter Dean Myers
Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, by G. Neri
Illustrator:
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, by Gary Golio, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
For more information about the 2011 Coretta Scott King Awards, please click here.