Coretta Scott

Ntozake Shange
(Juvenile Nonfiction - J 921 King Sha)


Coretta Scott King’s childhood and participation in the Civil Rights Movement are lyrically described in this picture book biography. Kadir Nelson’s paintings show expressive faces and cinematic landscapes. A great companion to any of the several MLK Jr. picture book biographies. Recommended for ages 4–9.

Coretta Scott King Award Winners

  • Freewater


  • Piecing Me Together


  • Gone Crazy in Alabama


  • Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat


  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul


  • Coretta Scott


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • The Stuff of Stars


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul


  • An American Story


  • Coretta Scott


  • Nigeria Jones


  • A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919


  • Before the Ever After


  • Coretta Scott King


  • Trombone Shorty


  • March Book 3


  • Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets


  • Firebird


  • March Book 3


  • Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets


  • Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat


  • Nigeria Jones


  • The Undefeated


  • Piecing Me Together


  • Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre


  • An American Story


  • The Stuff of Stars


  • Gone Crazy in Alabama


  • Standing in the Need of Prayer


  • The Undefeated


  • Freewater


  • New Kid


  • New Kid


  • Coretta Scott King


  • Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre


  • Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King


  • Firebird


  • Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King


  • A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919


  • Standing in the Need of Prayer


  • Trombone Shorty


  • Before the Ever After