Coretta Scott King
Book Award
Persephoni Moore
CORETTA SCOTT KING
 The Coretta Scott King
Award was created to
recognize and honor great
African American authors,
illustrators, and books in
literature.
 This award was named after
Coretta Scott King due to
her efforts in working for
peace and civil rights.
GRANTING BODY
 The Coretta Scott King Award
is presented by the Ethnic &
Multicultural Information
Exchange (EMIERT), a round
table of the American Library
Association (ALA).
SELECTION CRITERIA
 Book must portray an African American experience
 Must be written for a youth audience
 Must be written or illustrated by an African American author and be the
authors original work.
 Book must be published in the United States
 Special attention will be given to books whose titles motivate readers
to develop there own behaviors while comprehending their
responsibilities.
ELIGIBILITY
 The author and the illustrator must live in the United States.
 The book must be published in the year before the year the award is
given. For example, a book that was published in 2011 would be eligible
for next year’s 2012 award.
 Only finished books will be accepted for the award.
“MIRACLE’S BOYS” BY JACQUELINE WOODSON
2001 CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER
“MIRACLE’S BOYS”
 “Miracle’s Boys” is about three brothers, Ty’ree, 21, Lafayette,
12, and Charlie, 15, who are now on their own after their
mother has died from insulin shock. Ty’ree, their legal
guardian, and Lafayette have been doing fine without
Charlie, who has been locked up for three years at Rahway
Home for Boys for armed robbery. Throughout the story
Ty’ree and Lafayette try to help Charlie through his
troublemaking, anger, and grief as they all get through the
passing of their mother.
Jacqueline Woodson
The author of “Miracle’s Boys”, was born in
Columbus, Ohio in 1963 but she and her
brother moved back and forth from South
Carolina to New York. The first book that
Woodson has written was titled “Last
Summer with Maizon”. She has won the
Coretta Scott King Award for Miracle’s
Boys in 2001 and has been honored for the
Newberry Award for her titles “After Tupac
and D. Foster”, “Show Way”, and “Feathers”.
Woodson is an openly lesbian woman with
her partner she has known since she was a
young girl. They have two children together,
a daughter named Toshi Georgianna, after
her godmother, and a son name JacksonLeroi. She is currently living in Brooklyn,
New York.