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Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Five Questions for Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by A poet and...
Review of Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Bryan CollierPrimary, Intermediate Bloomsbury 40 pp.1/26 9781681198187 $20.99In a powerful first-person narrative, the Alabama River recounts its role as a witness to pivotal moments in American history—from its geological origins to the passage of the Voting Rights...
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Review of Family Feast!
Family Feast! by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Frank Morrison Preschool, Primary Crown 32 pp. 9/25 9780593898291 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593898307 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593898314 $6.99 “Tastes like home when family meet; / a bond so warm, so strong, so sweet.” These lines are repeated throughout this inviting book about...
Profile of 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford
I fell in love with Black history at a very young age. I come from a family with roots in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Detroit. A family of Black cowboys, storytellers, landowners, entrepreneurs, gin makers, community leaders, and doctors. Unfortunately, I didn’t grow up seeing these stories told in the...
Review of When I Move
When I Move by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Alea Marley Preschool, Primary Union Square 40 pp. 4/25 9781454945543 $18.99 This is a picture book tailor-made for storytime: Weatherford’s succinct first-person text makes great use of repetition, as well as end rhymes that beg for children’s voices to complete. Well-paced...
ALA Annual 2025
The last time I’d been to Philadelphia was for the American Library Association Midwinter Conference. It was January 2020, just-pre-pandemic crisis in the U.S., and turned out to be the last Midwinter conference in that form. This year’s ALA Annual Conference in Philly had its share of remembering and reminiscing but...
2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Carole Boston Weatherford
I am filled with gratitude because I know that none of this had to be: not the eighty-plus books, not the nineteen American Library Association Youth Media Awards, not the NAACP Image Awards, not the nomination as Young People’s Poet Laureate, not the opportunities to travel across the country and...
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Review of Rap It Up!
Rap It Up! by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford; illus. by Ernel Martinez Primary Holt 32 pp. 3/25 9781250833570 $18.99 “My mom claims I was rapping before I could speak. / Matter of fact, I freestyled eight days a week.” A young MC serves as the narrator of...
Kin: Jeffery Boston Weatherford's 2024 BGHB Poetry Award Speech
First and foremost, I would of course like to thank the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this honor, the entire creative team at Simon & Schuster, and our agent, Rubin Pfeffer, for catalyzing this project in the first place. Rubin, you have been a light in this journey, always...
Kin: Carole Boston Weatherford's 2024 BGHB Poetry Award Speech
I’d like to thank the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this honor. Thanks also to Reka Simonsen, my editor at Simon & Schuster, for your faith in bringing this project to life. Last but not least, I am indebted to my agent, Rubin Pfeffer, for planting the seed for...
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