Carole Boston Weatherford, author portrait

Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner, ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner, and the author of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award–winning Standing in the Need of Prayer; 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; and the Caldecott Honor books Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. She also serves as the 2025-2026 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Weatherford was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where she now resides.
Family Feast!
Bridges Instead of Walls
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Standing in the Need of Prayer
The Faith of Elijah Cummings
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
Freedom on the Menu

Books

Family Feast!
Bridges Instead of Walls
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Standing in the Need of Prayer
The Faith of Elijah Cummings
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
Freedom on the Menu

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