Resources

Books by Carole Boston Weatherford cross not only genres but also the curriculum. Her books of poetry, biography, nonfiction and historical fiction link to language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, music and art. Whether for early readers or young adults, her picture books tackle tough subjects that spark curiosity and critical thinking.

Author Study

INTRODUCING IMMERSION PACKS!

Immersion packs are self-contained lessons, complete with author/illustrator insights, reading questions, vocabulary lists, activities, videos, downloads, links and pop culture connections.

You Can Fly: A Paper Airplane

A Bat Cave: An Abecedarian Bedtime Chronicle Immersion Pack

Reading/Discussion Guides & Teacher Resources

Kin: Rooted in Hope

Kin Rooted in Hope Family Tree Activity

Freedom in Congo Square

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights

Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe

Becoming Billie Holiday Reading & Discussion Guide

Becoming Billie Holiday (event guide)

Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

Birmingham, 1963

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Dear Mr. Rosenwald

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins (readers theatre)

How Do You Spell Unfair? Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee

How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace

I, Matthew Henson

Jazz Baby

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

A Negro League Scrapbook

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Outspoken: Paul Robeson-Ahead of His Time, a One-Man Show

Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City

Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks

The Sound That Jazz Makes

Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Primary Source Photos as Prompts

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