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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 When I Move

When I Move by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Alea MarleyPreschool, Primary    Union Square    40 pp.4/25    9781454945543    $18.99This 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 page-turns at the...
      
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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...
      

Review of The Doll Test: Choosing Equality

The Doll Test: Choosing Equality by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by David Elmo Cooper Primary    Carolrhoda    32 pp. 11/24    9781728477930    $18.99 This powerful picture book brings to life the essential research of psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, whose work significantly influenced the fight against segregation, having concluded that “school segregation...
      

Black Means: Roll Call & Rap: A Found Poem of Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Book Titles (for 3 voices)

Black Means The People Remember The Creation The Origin of Life on Earth All the Days Past, All the Days to Come Before the Ever After. Do you feel me? Black Means I Have Heard of a Land. Africa Dream The Captive The Middle Passage Working Cotton Black Hands, White...
      
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Review of Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination

Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Edwin FotheringhamPrimary    Calkins/Astra    32 pp.11/24    9781662680410    $18.99e-book ed.  9781662680427    $11.99“On a North Carolina farm, massive towers with moving parts spin and sound in the breeze. Did space aliens create these contraptions?” At the opening of this...
      

Carole Boston Weatherford Talks with Roger

Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by   With The Doll Test: Choosing Equality, Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator David Elmo Cooper tell the true story of a psychological test that changed hearts, minds, and history. I...
      

Review of A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison

A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Khalif Tahir ThompsonPrimary, Intermediate    Quill Tree/HarperCollins    48 pp.4/24    9780062911032    $19.99In an expressive second-person text addressed to her subject, Weatherford celebrates the life and legacy of the esteemed novelist, professor, and Nobel...
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