He contributed to the award-winning anthology We Rise We Resist We Raise Our Voices, As a designer, he worked on Africa Dear Mr. His debut book, You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen, garnered starred reviews, made the American Library Association’s ALSC Notables list and was selected among the year’s best books by Kirkus Review, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council for the Social Studies and the New York Public Library. Jeffery is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and performance poet. She is a Professor of English at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.Ĭarole Boston Weatherford, North Carolina Award for Literature recipient, discusses her background and books. in creative writing from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. in publications design from University of Baltimore and an M.F.A. Since her literary debut with Juneteenth Jamboree in 1995, Carole’s books have received three Caldecott Honors, two NAACP Image Awards, an SCBWI Golden Kite Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor and many other honors.įor career achievements, Carole received the Ragan-Rubin Award from North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Literature Award, among the state’s highest civilian honors. Her father, a high school printing teacher, printed some of her early poems on index cards.
A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world.Mother/son-author/illustrator duo Carole & Jeffery Boston Weatherfordīaltimore-born and -raised, Carole composed her first poem in first grade and dictated the verse to her mother on the ride home from school.
When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.Īmid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. Publisher's Synopsis: In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history. Schomburg: the Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston WeatherfordĪlso by this author: Voice of Freedom, Unspeakable, How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Read additional review from Shelf Awareness here.
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