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the-dust-jacket · 1 year

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Congratulations to the 2023 Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Award winner and honorees!

#Coretta Scott King Awards #Standing In the Need of a Prayer #Me and the Boss #Swim Team #Victory. Stand!#Carole Boston Weatherford #Frank Morrison #Michelle Edwards #April Harrison #Johnnie Christmas #Tommie Smith #Derrick Barnes #Dawud Anyabwile #awards

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blackchildrensbooksandauthors · 2 years

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

On this day, May 31, 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre began. It utterly devastated the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK, one of the wealthiest Black communities in the country.

Unspeakable is a must-read, multi-award-winning, picture book by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper.

#tulsa race massacre #black wall street #carole boston weatherford #floyd cooper #our stories matter

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garadinervi · 2 years

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Carole Boston Weatherford, Birmingham, 1963, Designed by Helen Robinson, Wordsong, Honesdale, PA, 2007, p. 25 and p. 24

#graphic design #poetry #photography #book #carole boston weatherford #addie mae collins #cynthia wesley #denise mcnair #carol robertson #helen robinson #wordsong #2000s

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hollymbryan · 8 months

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Blog Tour + #Excerpt: KIN by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford (w/ #giveaway)!

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the Rockstar Book Tours blog tour by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford! I've got all the details on this new book of art and poetry, an excerpt, and a giveaway below.

About the Book

title: KIN: Rooted in Hope author: Carole Boston Weatherford art by: Jeffery Boston Weatherford publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers release date: 19 September 2023

A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and stunning art by her son Jeffery Boston Weatherford. I call their names: Abram Alice Amey Arianna Antiqua I call their names: Isaac Jake James Jenny Jim Every last one, property of the Lloyds, the state’s preeminent enslavers. Every last one, with a mind of their own and a story that ain’t yet been told. Till now. Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s ancestors are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history there extends more than three hundred years, but as with the genealogical searches of many African Americans with roots in slavery, their family tree can only be traced back five generations before going dark. And so from scraps of history, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universal. Carole’s poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land itself that connects them all, and Jeffery’s evocative illustrations help carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as property in a 1781 ledger to he and his mother’s homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. Shaped by loss, erasure, and ultimate reclamation, this is the story of not only Carole and Jeffery’s family, but of countless other Black families in America.

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About the Author and Artist

Hailed as “a master” and “the dean” of nonfiction for young people,” Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times best-seller and two-time NAACP Image Award winner. Since her 1995 debut, she has authored 70-plus books including four Caldecott Honor winners: Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre; 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. Her books have won nine Coretta Scott King Awards or Honors. She writes the diverse books that she lacked as a child. A Baltimore native and the daughter of educators, Carole was virtually born with ink in her blood. At age six, she dictated her first poem to her mother. Her father, a high school printing teacher, published a few of her early poems on the press in his classroom. Meanwhile, her grandmothers passed down oral traditions and stories. By middle school, Carole had transferred from an all-black public school to a majority-white, private school where a teacher wrongfully accused her of plagiarism. That slight compelled her to chronicle a more inclusive history, to amplify marginalized voices and to build monuments with words. Now, children’s books are a family affair for Carole. In KIN: Rooted in Hope, she and her son, award-winning illustrator Jeffery Weatherford embark on a genealogical quest. Through multi-voiced poems and dramatic scratchboard illustrations, mother and son conjure the voices and visages of their forebears. Their ancestors lived through the American Revolution, fought in the Civil War, were enslaved alongside Frederick Douglass, cofounded Reconstruction-era villages, and according to local lore, descended from African royalty. A professor at Fayetteville State University, an HBCU in North Carolina, Carole has been recognized with the Nonfiction Award from the Children’s Book Guild, the North Carolina Literature Award, the Ragan-Rubin Award from North Carolina English Teachers Association and a place in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. She is a life member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Jeffery earned his M.F.A. from Howard University where he was a Romare Bearden scholar and studied under artists from the Black Arts Movement. A rapper and a fine artist, Jeffery has performed or exhibited in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Baltimore, North Carolina, West Africa and the Middle East. Jeffery’s first book was You Can Fly the Tuskegee Airmen, and his first picture book was Call Me Miss Hamilton. Both appeared on best book of the year lists.

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About the Giveaway

One (1) lucky winner will receive a finished copy of KIN by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford! This one is US only and ends 19 September. Enter via the Rafflecopter below, and good luck!

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jamesmurualiterary · 2 years

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NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2023 finalists announced.

Renée Watson, Carole Boston Weatherford, and Rita Williams-Garcia are finalists of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2023. The announcement was made on Monday, June 27, 2022. The NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature is an international literary award given every odd-number year by World Literature Today founded in 2003. It is an…

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#Carole Boston Weatherford #NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature #NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2023 #Renée Watson #Rita Williams-Garcia

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bookcub · 3 months

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got my syllabus for my children's latinx literature class so im gonna post my assigned texts below!! the list includes ya lit, picture books, movies, and a musical.

already brainstorming for my final project and im already excited with all the possibilities!!

Jose Marti, La Edad de Oro (1899)

Pura Belpré, Perez and Martina: A Portorican Folktale (1931)

Duncan Tonatiuh, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale (2013)

Nicholasa Mohr, Nilda (1973)

Gloria Anzaldua, Prietita and the Ghost Woman (2001)

Sonia Manzano, The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano (2013)

Francisco Jimenez, The Circuit (1997)

Julia Alvarez, Before We Were Free (2004)

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quería Alegria Hudes, In the Heights (2008)

Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (2016) and Merci Suarez (2018)

Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree (2013)

Blue Beetle (DC) (2023)

Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse (Marvel) (2023)

Nigeria Jones (Ibi Zoboi) (2023)

With the Fire on High (Elizabeth Acevedo) (2019)

Schomburg: The Man who Built the Library Carole Boston Weatherford/Eric Velasquez (2018)

Down These Mean Streets (Piri Thomas) (1967)

Inheritance of Orquinda Divina, Zoraida Cordova (2023)

#grad school #ive actually read a lot of these authors but not these texts #so that will be interesting

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lifethroughrainbowglasses · 9 months

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Standing in the Need of Prayer by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Frank Morrison

Category: Coretta Scott King Winner

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrator: Frank Morrison

Summary: Standing in the Need of Prayer is a children's book that retells Black American History through the words of a popular spiritual. It shows the progress that has been made but doesn't stray from the harsh realities of the history Black Americans have faced. It shows modern and historical leaders through the rewritten words of the spiritual, Standing in the Need of Prayer.

Justification: A Coretta Scott King winner is always a useful addition to any library but this one is unique in the way that it tells its story. Music is culturally and significantly important in many cultural communities and this book would be an asset in a music class teaching about the importance of music and how to break down lyrics in a way that tells a story.

Illustration: The illustration in this book is beautiful and powerful. From the beginning the illustrator does not shy away from difficult imagery, showing the harsh realities of life for Black Americans in the South. The imagery is jarring and scary but becomes more hopeful and exciting as the story continues. As history develops the imagery lightens up and becomes stronger and brighter representing kids as they see the world today.

Writing: The writing felt like a song. The writing in the book is a retelling of a popular spiritual, the history of which is strongly rooted in Black American culture. Spirituals were often sung on plantations representing hope amongst the struggles of slaves as they dealt with horrendous and dehumanizing treatment. The use of a spiritual to give agency back and discuss how far Black Americans have come since those days lends hope to future change and a renewal of the spirit in fighting for that change. While that is something that young children may not pick up on, it's a useful observation for adults reading the story because they can discuss how much history has changed over time.

Theme: The major theme in this story is hope. Hope for the future, hope for change, and hope for a world free of the strife of the past. This story goes from shades of brown and gray to a world of color showing how history has changed and opened up over time. The changemakers and leaders are shown in full color representing the hope they bring to the world. The words in the book become more hopeful and feature a call to action as the book progresses. The book's hope in the future is evident in every aspect and is a beautiful addition to any library or classroom.

Weatherford, C. B. (2022). Standing in the need of prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual. Crown Books for Young Readers.

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winningthesweepstakes · 11 months

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How Do You Spell Unfair? by Carol Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Frank Morrison

How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carol Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Frank Morrison. Candlewick Press, 2023. 9781536215540 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Hardcover picture book Genre: Biography What did you like about the book? MacNolia Cox read the dictionary for fun. After winning the Akron, Ohio spelling bee in…

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bookkeepng · 2 months

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The Snail with the Right Heart

Maria Popova (author) & Pin Zhu (illustrator)

“A love story, a science story, a story about the poetry of existence, about time and chance, genetics and gender, life and death, evolution and infinity, about not mistaking difference for defect, about recognizing diversity as nature’s wellspring of resilience and beauty.”

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SHC Book Club Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford

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memoriallibrarytmc · 3 months

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What's Here Wednesday: Hidden History: Racial Violence

History is clouded with many tragic, violent events that were committed against people of color or other marginalized identities. Sadly, many of these events are pushed into corners and footnotes, or rarely taught in history curricula. Whether it's the police raid that led to the Stonewall Uprising... the Tulsa Race Massacre... or Chicago Race Riot... or the horrific treatment inflicted on individuals: the wrongful imprisonment of the Scottsboro Boys... or the brutal murder of Emmett Till.

These events are difficult to learn about or teach, but they are very important to unearth and share. Several books are available in the TMC on similar events, including those pictured:

A few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford

Accused! by Larry Dane Brimner

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson

Stonewall by Rob Sanders

#tmc #what's here wednesday #teaching materials center #suny cortland #memorial library #children's books #teaching history #teaching social studies #hidden history #race #racism #racial violence #black history month

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cocoawithbooks · 3 months

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Review: How Do You Spell Unfair? by Carole Boston Weatherford

Buy on Bookshop Nonfiction Children’s Book Review How Do You Spell Unfair? by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Frank Morrison is full of lots of opportunities for learning. From Black history to vocabulary to coping with disappointment, this nonfiction children’s book packs a big impact for readers young and old. How Do You Spell Unfair? is the story of 8th grader, MacNolia Cox and…