1. Multi-cultural children's BOOK AWARD Coretta SCOTT KING Award
Cherylyn Markovich EDRL 407 Learning Module Four PowerPoint

2. Coretta Scott king award
This award is named after Coretta Scott King wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
This award recognizes outstanding African American authors and illustrators.
Awarded for books about the African American experience written for the youth.
This award is given to commemorate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor Coretta Scott King for her efforts in working for peace and civil rights issues.

3. Granting Body
The Coretta Scott King award is presented annually by the American Library Association.

4. Selection Criteria
Must portray some aspect of the black experience, past, present, or future.
Must be written/illustrated by an African American.
Must be published in the U.S. in the year preceding presentation of the Award.
Must be an original work.
Must meet established standards of quality writing for youth which include:
Clear plot
Well drawn characters, which portray growth and development during the course of the story.
Writing style which is consistent with and suitable to the age intended
Accuracy

5. Selection Criteria
Must be written for a youth audience in one of three categories:
Preschool-grade 4
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
Particular attention will be paid to titles which seek to motivate readers to develop their own attitudes and behaviors as well as comprehend their personal duty and responsibility as citizens in a pluralistic society.
Illustrations should reflect established qualitative standards identified in the statement below: Illustrations should... “heighten and extend the readers' awareness of the world around him. They should lead him to an appreciation of beauty. The style and content of the illustrations should be...neither coy nor condescending...Storytelling qualities should enlarge upon the story elements that were hinted in the text and should include details that will awaken and strength the imagination of the reader and permit him to interpret the words and pictures in a manner unique to him” 
--Cianciolo, Illustrations in Children's Books (p )

6. Eligibility
Author or illustrator must live in the U.S. or maintain dual residency/citizenship.
Book must be published in the year preceding the year the award is given, evidenced by the copyright date printed in the book.
Only finished copies will be accepted. Do not send advance reader copies, galleys, etc.
Titles submitted for the Coretta Scott King Book Awards will not be returned. Titles received by the OLOS office are donated as part of The Coretta Scott King Review Books Donation Grant

7. Henry’s Freedom Box 2008 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book
Author: Ellen Levine
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
2008 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book
(African-American)

8. Henry’s Freedom Box
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is and nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After a grueling journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.

9. About the author: Ellen Levine
Ellen grew up in New York City, but she loves the outdoors and the country-side.
As a child she wrote a lot of stories and she grew up in a house with a lot of books, which is where she got her love for reading and writing.
She is the oldest child and she went to the library with her mom every week.
She majored in political science at Brandeis University.
She obtained her M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago.
She has a Juris Doctor degree from New York University of Law.
She has worked in film and television, taught adults and immigrant teenagers in special education and ESL programs, and served a law clerkship with Chief Judge Joseph Lord, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

10. About the illustrator: Kadir NELSON
Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
He has created paintings for a host of distinguished clients including Sports Illustrated, The Coca-Cola Company, The United States Postal Service, Major League Baseball, and DreamWorks SKG
Many of Nelson’s paintings are in the collections of notable institutions and public collections, including the U.S. House of Representatives and the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Currently, Nelson’s cover artwork is featured on the album “MICHAEL”, by the late pop singer icon Michael Jackson, Jackson’s first post-mortem album release.

11. Sources http://www.kadirnelson.com/Artist-Biography.html