Coretta Scott King Winners

Illustrator Award
                 Bryan Collier won this year's Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and a Caldecott Honor Book award for "Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave."
                 Bryan has illustrated more than 20 books and won several awards.
                 He began painting when he was 15.  Now he directs kids in programs in New York City for painting murals, or large paintings on walls.
Author Award
                Rita Williams-Garcia won the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Newbery Honor Book award for "One Crazy Summer."
                Rita began sending stories to publishers when she was 12.  When she was 14, she got her first story published in Highlights magazine.
Illustrator Honor Book
                Javaka Steptoe won an Honor Book award for "Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow:  A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix."  Javaka also won the King Illustrator Award in 1998.
Author Honor Books
                G. Neri is an artist and filmmaker who teaches animation to inner-city teens in Los Angeles.
                     "Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty" is a graphic novel about a boy trying to cope with gang violence.
               Walter Dean Myers has won many awards for his books.
                      In "Lockdown," a boy in trouble gets a second chance while working at a senior citizens home.
              Jewell Parker Rhodes teaches writing and has written several books.
                      In "Ninth Ward," a girl relies on help from the spirit world totry to survive Hurricane Katrina.