NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children's Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text, 2006 NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work for Children, 2007 International Reading Association: Teachers' Choice, 2007 Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2006)Ĭoretta Scott King Book Award: Illustrator Winner, 2007 North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award, 2002 Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People (2002) NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children's Literary Work: Nomination Woodson Book Award: Elementary Level, 2001 In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (1997)Ĭoretta Scott King Book Awards: Illustrator Award, 1998Ĭarter G. Publishers Weekly, Shannon Maughan, Aug 2021

The Horn Book Magazine, Carole Boston Weatherford, Mar 2021 More Than a Footnote: Challenges for BIPOC Nonfiction Authors Video panel with Weatherford, Deborah Heligman, Candace Fleming, Joseph Bruchac, & Marilyn Nelson WUNC North Carolina Public Radio, Sep 2020Ĭreativity Meets True Stories: Non fiction YAīank Street Library, Steve Sheinkin, Oct 2020 This Author Will Help You Teach Your Kids About Race: Meet Carole Boston Weatherford Bailey, Jan 2019Ĭandlewick Press Presents: Carole Boston Weatherford Poetry Foundation, 2008 Interviews & EssaysĬhronicling Extraordinary Lives through Children’s Biographies: An Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford Baltimore-born, Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University In North Carolina.” Among her most popular titles are Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins and The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday, NAACP Image Awards for Moses and for Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for The Legendary Miss Lena Horne, and an SCBWI Golden Kite and WNDB Walter Award for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library. Her 50-plus books include the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. “ New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford recently released Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe and R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul. The following biography is taken from CHILDREN'S BOOKS BY THE WEATHERFORDS. How lucky Weatherford’s young readers are to have such an honest and lyrical lens. As a child, I was especially drawn to books about real people and events-after all, books are many childrens’ first glimpses into the world. Carole Boston Weatherford is one of the pioneers of poetic nonfiction books for the youth.

Schomburg by Carole Boston Weatherford