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Theodore Taylor III: Awards and Best-of Lists

Theodore Taylor III has won 1 award, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards (2014) for When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop, with 1 year-end list pick in our archive.

Also credited with Laban Carrick Hill

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Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2022Off the WallKirkus Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2014When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip HopCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Winner · John Steptoe New Talent

Books

  1. Off the Wall1 source · 2022
  2. When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop1 source · 2014