Carole Boston Weatherford

• Apr-2026
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A celebration of the love between father and child from Coretta Scott King Award�"winning author and Young People's Poet Laureate Carole Boston Weatherford, this beautiful rhyming board book is the perfect gift for dad and everyone who loves him!Dad...

• Oct-2025
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From Misty Copeland to Rosa Parks to Nina Simone, this picture book companion to Hair Like Obama???s, Hands Like Lebron???s is a celebration of Black history and excellence from powerhouse author Carole Boston WeatherfordWith a voice as bold as Beyon...

• Sep-2025
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From the award-winning author and illustrator of Standing in the Need of Prayer comes a joyous picture book about an intergenerational Black family cooking a delicious feast and appreciating their quality time together.Aunts, uncles, cousins, all pit...

• May-2025
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An ode to being active and dramatic play. For fans of Ruth Krauss's I Can Fly and Ashley Spires's The Most Magnificent Thing, this picture book will inspire young readers to getting moving and start imagining! Simple, engaging rhymes will inspire li...

• Mar-2025
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�..."This cheery picture book is a knockout, delightful on many levels...The ultimate message -- put in the work, because “The words you write are worth it” -- comes through and will hopefully inspire aspiring rap artists." -- Booklist, starred...

• Oct-2024
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From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair Like Obama's, Hands Like Lebron's is a picture book celebration of Black history and excellence from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherfor...

• Sep-2024
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A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Boston Globe–Horn Book Poetry Award Winner An “imaginative and moving” (The Horn Book, starred review) portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by...

• Mar-2024
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A celebration of childhood from an award-winning author, this upbeat day-in-the-life of a bunch of friends was inspired by the #BlackBoyJoy meme that spurred a movement. From sunrise to sunset, a group of young Black boys joyously spend the day toget...

• Jan-2023
• / Historical
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In this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated picture book by Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford and multi-award winning illustrator E. B. Lewis, Mother Africa addresses her offspring of all colors in all cor...

• Sep-2022
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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE LEGACY AWARD WINNER • CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR AWARD WINNER • A stunning and deeply moving picture book based on the popular spiritual from an award-winning author and critically acclaimed illustrator. The classic lyri...

• Feb-2022
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"Carole Boston Weatherford, once again, delivers a resounding testament and reminder, that hip-hop is a flavorful slice of a larger cultural cake. And to be hip-hop-to truly be it-we must remember that we are also funk, jazz, soul, folktale, and...

• Mar-2021
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This stunning and empowering picture book from a New York Times bestselling and ALSC Children’s Literature Legacy Award�"winning author and an acclaimed illustrator celebrates a Black mother’s hopes and dreams for her daughter.As I cradle you, l...

• Sep-2020
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In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe.

From the day she was born into a troubled home to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson...

• Nov-2018
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Before she raised her lens to take her most iconic photo, Dorothea Lange took photos of the downtrodden from bankers in once-fine suits waiting in breadlines, to former slaves, to the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. A case of polio had left her with ...

• Sep-2017
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A black mother expresses the many hopes and dreams she has for her child in this powerful picture book masterpiece that’s perfect for gift-giving. When you are a newborn, I hold your hand and study your face. I cradle you as you drift to sleep...

• May-2016
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Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier. I WANT YOU! says the poster of Un...

• May-2015
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At age three, Oprah began performing in churches, becoming known to adoring crowds as the Little Speaker. When she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she answered, "I want to be paid to talk." Here is the story of Oprah Winfrey’s chi...

• Jun-2014
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From birth to getting elected as president, a biography told in lyrical prose.... From his childhood in Indonesia to his teenage years in Hawaii, from his father's homeland of Kenya to the halls of Harvard Law School and, later, the South Side of...

• Feb-2014
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Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary. With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home duri...

• Jun-2011
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Double Tap to Zoom. Throughout their father’s twenty-two month campaign for president, Malia and Sasha Obama begged their parents for a dog. Finally, when their father became the 44th President of the United States, he rewarded their patience and ...

• Nov-2010
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Two acclaimed picture book talents combine in this award-winning journey through the history and legacy of jazz. Carole Boston Weatherford’s poetic text is perfectly matched with Eric Velasquez’s powerful oil paintings. ...

• Oct-2008
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Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's jo...

• Sep-2008
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• Sep-2007
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A young girl, who has just moved to her parents' hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth.It's a fine day In June. Cassandra's family has just moved from the city back to her parents'...

• Aug-2007
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Joining her parents in a community celebration of Juneteenth, Cassie learns about the day when slaves in Texas were freed some two years after the Emancipation Proclamation and wonders why the news took so long to reach them....

• Jan-2007
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In 1955, the Cannon Street YMCA chartered the only African American Little League in South Carolina. That same year, sixty-one all-white teams pulled out of the South Carolina Little League State Tournament so they would not have to play the Cannon S...

• Oct-2006
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This poetic book is a resounding tribute to Tubman's strength, humility, and devotion. With proper reverence, Weatherford and Nelson do justice to the woman who, long ago, earned over and over the name Moses....

• Sep-2006
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Renowned illustrator Gregory Christie joins the Scholastic Press list with this empowering story about an African-American community who builds their own school.

Based on the true story of the Rosenwald schools built in the rural African-Ameri...

• Mar-2006
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A celebration of music and movement, this story in verse is inspired by the riffs, rhythms, and freedom of jazz.Colorful spreads show close-ups of children playing drums, piano, and bass as they swing, sway, and jitterbug to the music. Weatherford of...

• Feb-2005
• / Historical
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When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil ...