Carole Boston Weatherford
Born: February 13, 1956
Meet the Author: https://cbweatherford.com/
Reading Rockets Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford https://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/weatherford
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Author Biography:
“New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford has 44 books, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, winner of an NAACP Image Award, Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Honor Medal. Her young adult debut Becoming Billie Holiday and picture book Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane won Coretta Scott King Honors. Birmingham, 1963 won the Jefferson Cup and Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and The Sound that Jazz Makes won the Carter G. Woodson Award from National Council for the Social Studies. Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins and Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People won the North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award. Among her recent releases are Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood, The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights and First Pooch: The Obamas Pick a Pet. For her literary contributions, Professor Weatherford received the Ragan-Rubin Award from the North Carolina English Teachers Association.
Her research interests include jazz, folk art, the Harlem Renaissance, historic images, racist stereotypes, and the African American freedom struggle.”—from https://152.6.15.92/english/faculty-and-staff/carole-weatherford
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Books by Carole Boston Weatherford:
Poetry Collections
Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Becoming Billie Holiday
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People*
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City
Birmingham: 1963
Dear Mr. Rosenwald*
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
Stormy Blues
The Tar Baby on the Soapbox
The Tan Chanteuse
Picture Books
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop
In Your Hands
Oprah: The Little Speaker
Obama: Only in America
Michelle Obama: First Mom
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
The Library Ghost*
I, Matthew Henson*
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins
First Pooch: The Obamas Pick a Pet
The Sound That Jazz Makes
Jazz Baby
Juneteenth Jamboree
Princeville: The 500-Year Flood
Champions on the Bench: The 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars*
Mighty Menfolk*
My Favorite Toy*
Grandma and Me*
Me and the Family Tree*
Nonfiction
A Negro League Scrapbook
The Carolina Parakeet: America’s Lost Parrot in Art and Memory
Great African-American Lawyers: Raising the Bar of Freedom
The African-American Struggle for Legal Equality in American History
Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks
*Denotes out of print
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Contact Carole Boston Weatherford: [email protected]
