Literary Award Winners
*2020: Floyd Cooper
( *awarded posthumously in 2023 due to COVID-19)
2018: Marilyn Nelson
2017: Pat Mora
2016: Nikki Grimes
2015: David Macaulay
2014: Christopher Paul Curtis
2013: Angela Johnson
2012: Alma Flor Ada
2011: Nikki Giovanni
2010: Pam Muñoz Ryan
2009: Jacqueline Woodson & Barry Moser
2008: Russell Freedman
2007: Eloise Greenfield
2006: Allen Say
2005: Joseph Bruchac
2004: Arnold Adoff
2003: Ashley Bryan
2002: Leo and Diane Dillon
2001: Patricia C. McKissack
2000: Jerry Pinkney
1999: Walter Dean Myers
![Floyd Cooper Floyd Cooper](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/focal_point_preview/public/Copy%20of%20Floyd%20Cooper.jpg?VersionId=dFAwvuBu_P2ngh9GUVpGbIF5NjM3F_sT&itok=mB4vH0kr)
![Marilyn Nelson (center) with Yvette Kirksey and Ione Cowen](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/YvetteKirksey_MarilynNelson_IoneCowen_rev0119_small.jpg?VersionId=A08m2orS4z7WmqrR0eHrdepYJdTHM1yF)
![Pat Mora](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/Pat_Mora_rev0119_small.jpg?VersionId=Me1dC_CkoTyBc6U2zTMpBUAjw6PymAER)
![Christopher Paul Curtis](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/cpcurtis_rev0119_small.jpg?VersionId=c1R1hzlCSrs.o9RqTH53s7Hf2C6rp4hp)