Becoming Billie Holiday
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award
The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry written by Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford.
In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life: a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through…
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January 11, 2022New York Times bestselling author Carole Boston Weatherford’s 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was also awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches composition and children's literature at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com.
Whirligigs
Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
Birmingham, 1963
Carole Boston Weatherford
You Are My Pride
Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrated by E. B. Lewis
A Negro League Scrapbook
Carole Boston Weatherford; Foreword by Buck O'Neil
Becoming Billie Holiday
Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrated By Floyd Cooper
Sidewalk Chalk
Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrated by Dimitrea TokunboFloyd Cooper (1956–2021) illustrated over 110 books for children, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and a Sibert Honor. He was also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for The Blacker the Berry; three Coretta Scott King Honors for I Have Heard of a Land, Meet Danitra Brown, and Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea; 10 ALA Notables; and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. Visit floydcooper.com.
A Beach Tail
Karen Lynn Williams; Illustrated By Floyd Cooper
Becoming Billie Holiday
Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrated By Floyd Cooper
Queen of the Track
Heather Lang; Illustrated by Floyd Cooper