Carole Boston Weatherford

Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time

A One-Man Show
Illustrator: Velasquez, Eric

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In this moving birth-to-death biography, Carole Boston Weatherford's poetic first-person narrative, interlaced with excerpts from African American spirituals, pairs with ... illustrations by Eric Velasquez capturing Paul Robeson's commanding presence. Back matter includes a time line, source notes, and bibliography for readers inspired to learn more"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 305mm x 254mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781536212976
• ISBN-10: 1536212970
• Artikelnr.: 68394749

Autorenporträt

Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2019 Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Newbery Honor Book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood; the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes; and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in North Carolina. Eric Velasquez is the award-winning illustrator of Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, by Carole Boston Weatherford, which received a Walter Dean Myers Award and a Golden Kite Award, and ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! The Dance That Crossed Color Lines by Dean Robbins. He has also won a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award and a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award. Eric Velasquez lives in Hartsdale, New York.