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- Award-winning books for children and young adults
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The daughter of a printer, Carole Boston Weatherford was practically born with ink in her blood. She began writing at age 6 and soon after saw her poems in print. She has authored 70-plus books. Her books have garnered 2 NAACP Image Awards and 9 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, including a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award and 4 Caldecott Honors. Her career achievements have been recognized with the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Nonfiction Award from the Children’s Book Guild and induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
Jeffery Boston Weatherford was born with such distinctive hands that his grandmother predicted he would grow up to do important work. She was right! An award-winning illustrator, Jeffery has collaborated with Carole on 3 books. He was a Romare Bearden scholar at Howard University where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. Also a performance poet and fine artist, Jeffery has performed or exhibited in the U.S., West Africa and the Middle East.
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KIN: Rooted in Hope is an illustrated verse novel that conjures the voices and visages of our ancestors and traces the author and illustrator’s roots to the American Revolution, to the Maryland plantation where Frederick Douglass was also enslaved, to Civil War battlefields and to the founding of all-Black, Reconstruction-era villages. Order here.
children's books by the weatherfords 