The winner of the author award is Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of Heart and Soul: the Story of America and African Americans. This is a simple introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.
He was also an honor winner for the King illustrator’s award for the same book. This is his fourth King award. He also won in 2009 for We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (author); in 2007 for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (illustrator) and in 2005 for Ellington Was Not a Street (illustrator).
The author Honor books were The Great Migration:Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield (Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the nothern states. Written as a series of poems.)
Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack (In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements–Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth–is captured and taken to America as a slave.)
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