• 8 new books, including 2 inspired by Black hair stories (Who would have thought it?)
• 2 Coretta Scott King Honors (for Kin: Rooted in Hope and How Do You Spell Unfair? Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee)
• 9 starred reviews
• 4 awards for KIN: Rooted in Hope, including the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
• 3 awards for How Do You Spell Unfair?–including the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Honor and the Norman Sugarman Award for Biographies Honor
• 1 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award (for A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington)
• 1 NAACP Image Award nomination (for How Do You Spell Unfair?)
• 1 book on the NSTA STEM list (first time ever)–Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination

Thanks to all who reviewed these titles, served on award committees and shared the books with young people.

Look for a bevy of new releases in 2025, including RAP IT UP!–the first book co-authored with my son, rapper and award-winning illustrator, Jeffery Boston Weatherford. Pre-order here.