Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is a two-time NAACP Image Award Winner, an ALA-ALSC Children’s Literature Legacy Award Winner, and the author of Standing in the Need of Prayer, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner; Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, which won the Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Awards, a Caldecott Honor, and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor Book Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom; Family Feast!; and many other acclaimed books. She was also named the 2025–2026 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Carole was born in Baltimore, where she now resides.

Family Feast!

Family Feast!

Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Frank Morrison
Bridges Instead of Walls

Bridges Instead of Walls

Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Steffi Walthall
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson

All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Ashley Evans
Standing in the Need of Prayer

Standing in the Need of Prayer

Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Frank Morrison
The Faith of Elijah Cummings

The Faith of Elijah Cummings

Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Laura Freeman
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Raul Colon
Freedom on the Menu

Freedom on the Menu

Carole Weatherford; Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue

Books by Carole Boston Weatherford from Candlewick

Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time

Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time

Carole Boston Weatherford
Bros

Bros

Carole Boston Weatherford
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Carole Boston Weatherford
Beauty Mark

Beauty Mark

Carole Boston Weatherford
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Carole Boston Weatherford
Schomburg: El hombre que creó una biblioteca Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

Carole Boston Weatherford

Books by Carole Boston Weatherford from Astra Publishing House

Whirligigs

Whirligigs

Carole Boston Weatherford
Birmingham, 1963

Birmingham, 1963

Carole Boston Weatherford
You Are My Pride

You Are My Pride

Carole Boston Weatherford
A Negro League Scrapbook

A Negro League Scrapbook

Carole Boston Weatherford
Becoming Billie Holiday

Becoming Billie Holiday

Carole Boston Weatherford
Sidewalk Chalk

Sidewalk Chalk

Carole Boston Weatherford