Talk:Coretta Scott King Award

1st comment
"Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum" by Ashley Bryan has been awarded the Coretta Scott King Award, and I didn't see it on this list. Did I miss it or is it just not there? --unsigned comment on 23:16, 15 November 2007 by 72.9.8.88

Updates and what you can do
Coretta Scott King Book Award Complete List of Recipients—by Year, American Library Association, retrieved 2008-03-20 has a complete list of award-winners and honor books for both authors and illustrators. Please add the Honor Books and the Illustrator award-winners. It's a mundane task but it has to be done. ISBN numbers are available from many sources, including online booksellers. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  19:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Author Honor Books and Special Citation complete. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  03:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

ISBN format
The 10-digit ISBN format with no hyphens is a carry-over from Amazon and BookFinder4U. Feel free to reformat these. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  03:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Red-links and repeated wikilinks
All books and arguably all award-winning authors and illustrators on this page are notable by virtue of being here. I red-linked all of them and checked for incorrect linking. Authors and illustrators are wiki-linked with every book just not on the first time they appear. This makes sense given the nature of the list.

Please help improve Wikipedia by turning the red links blue. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  03:40, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

coretta scott king was a beautiful person
coretta scott king was an african american who did civil rights for all people and wanted evarything to be in peace all around the world and wanted everyone to be brother and sister like her husband Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. and rosa parks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.227.230.130 (talk) 13:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Proposed external link
Another editor who may or may not have a conflict of interest mailed me this link: It is from a site whose main page looks commercial. Before adding it to the page I wanted to see if doing so would be considered to spammy for Wikipedia. I would much prefer to add a similar resource from a non-commercial site. Barring that, I'd prefer to link to a site which wouldn't be significantly "helped" economically by being on a mainspace Wikipedia page. In other words, I don't want to unintentionally participate in search-engine optimization to promote a small business, unless the benefits to Wikipedia are worth the appearance of link-spam.
 * Coretta Scott King Book Award-winning Authors, Illustrators, & Books

So: What do you guys think about this link, and can any of you moot the discussion by providing a similar link on a non-commercial site? davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  22:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Black Means author
The canonical list of award-winners is the primary source - the American Library Association. It's web site shows that the 1971 Author Award book Black Means is "by Gladys Groom and Bonnie Grossman (Hill & Wang)."

While it is possible that this is a typo, we need ample evidence of that before changing it. A single hardcopy book is more likely to contain an uncorrected typo than this web site.

I searched. While I didn't find "ample" evidence, I found several sources that showed Barney as the name and none that showed Bonnie, except some that echoed the ALA information or this Wikipedia entry.

So, keep looking folks, but for now, Barney stands. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  21:23, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Fun Facts at 40th anniversary (2009)
"Fun Facts About the Coretta Scott King Book Awards". March 28, 2009. Elizabeth Bird. A Fuse #8 Production.

That is a blog at School Library Journal by NYPL children's librarian Betsy Bird. Elsewhere we cite it primarily for its length 2012 series on Top 100 Children's Novels and Top 100 Picture Books. --P64 (talk) 17:50, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Why Corretta Scott King namesake
I noticed in the history section it is mentioned that the award was named in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King, but there is no more explanation. I wondered why it was named for them beyond the obvious reasons. I found this quote from the ALA page explaining the award, "The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood." Would it be worth including some paraphrase of this information on the page? Maureensq19 (talk) 16:21, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , I think that would make a very good addition. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Unnecessarily complicated sorting
I am removing some of the unnecessarily complicated sorting on the names. It just increases the opportunity for error and adds virtually nothing. Antlersantlers (talk) 17:43, 24 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I couldn't find a good example of a combined award table but seperating the author from illustrator does seem useful. Perhaps the answer is to just break into two tables instead? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 19:09, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Steptoe award?
Someone combined the Steptoe Award into the main CSK award table. Is there a good reason for this? I think there is value in having it separated. It is given out by the same awarding body so I can see why combining them makes sense, but it is its own award. Anyone else have thoughts? Antlersantlers (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2023 (UTC)


 * I did it because generally they're all grouped under the Scott King banner and it felt like a single table - which can still be sorted to show Steptoes - would better serve our reader than the multiple tables that were present before. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:32, 30 January 2023 (UTC)