media

VIDEO

Booktrailers

Black Issues Forum on UNC-TV

The Weatherfords discuss You Can Fly on Bookwatch, UNC-TV

The Weatherfords at The Village Group, Plantersville Elementary School (SC)

Reading Rockets interview

Poplin Elementary School performance (scroll down for video)

Guilford County Newsbreak: Lindley Park School visit

Brewbaker Techonology High School @ Alabama Book Festival: Interview

Kennedy Center Performing Arts Series (Register free for Archive Access.)

2010 North Carolina Award for Literature

PODCASTS

WICN-Worcester, MA:  Reading from Becoming Billie Holiday

WBGO-Newark, NJ:  Reading from Becoming Billie Holiday

Pratt Library:  Reading from Becoming Billie Holiday and I, Matthew Henson

NPR: Negro Leagues commentary

NPR: Rosa Parks poem

BLOG INTERVIEWS

Book Divas

Miss Rumphius Effect

Cynsations

Brown Bookshelf

POETRY & ESSAYS ONLINE

Pokemon commentary

Speaking of Slavery: The Last Taboo commentary

Title poem from chapbook The Tar Baby on the Soapbox

Tuskegee Airmen poem

REVIEWS

www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32346

http://www.themontserratreview.com/bookreviews/becomingBillieHoliday.html

www.bookdivas.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=356&Itemid=45

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6600236.html?nid=2413&rid=

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6648081.html

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6623294.html

www.teensreadtoo.com/BecomingBillieHoliday.html

http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/article.asp?t=1&m=1&c=32&s=651&ai=76868

BLOG REVIEWS

http://sarahmillerbooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/becoming-billie-holiday-by-carole.html

orangesandsardines.blogspot.com/2009/03/becoming-billie-holiday.html

http://pinkpicks.blogspot.com/2009/03/becoming-billie-holiday-by-carole.html

http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1432#more-1432

http://wordswimmer.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-deep-is-ocean.html

http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/poetry-friday-review-of-becoming-billie.html

http://summereadingame.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/ladies-first/

http://planetesme.blogspot.com/2008/12/bird-fiction.html

SHORTLISTS

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6617203.html

www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/images/pdf/Best_YA.pdf

http://pdfs.voya.com/VO/YA2/VOYA200904PurePoetry2008.pdf (VOYA Poetry Picks)

http://www.capitolchoices.com/displaybooks.asp?parent=2622&sort=102&list=2626&curpage=3

http://www.teensreadtoo.com/HallOfFame.html (September 2008)

http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/librarians-choices-2008.html (Librarians’ Choices)

http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-poetry-of-2008.html (Best Poetry of 2008)

http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/2008/12/cynsational-books-of-2008.html

BLOG TOURS

http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2009/04/09/becoming-billie-holiday-blog-tour/

http://bethrevis.blogspot.com (April 7, 2009)
http://annbogle.blogspot.com/ (April 19, 2009)

http://smallbranchespoetry.blogspot.com/ (April 6, 2009)
www.carolbaldwinblog.blogspot.com/  (April 15, 2009)
http://practiceandcraft.blogspot.com/  (April 27, 2009)
www.nikischoenfeldt.blogspot.com/ (April 30, 2009)