Carole Boston Weatherford

You Can Fly

The Tuskegee Airmen
Illustrator: Weatherford, Jeffery Boston

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Produktbeschreibung

This history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneeringAfrican-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrierduring World War II. Illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Reprint edition
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9781481449397
• ISBN-10: 1481449397
• Artikelnr.: 46467388

Autorenporträt

Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including You Can Fly illustrated by her son Jeffery; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King award, a Caldecott honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award finalist;  Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and Caldecott Honor winners 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. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com. You Can Fly illustrated by her son Jeffery; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King award, a Caldecott honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award finalist; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and Caldecott Honor winners 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. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com. Jeffery Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and a performance poet. He has lectured, performed, and led art and writing workshops in the US, the Middle East, and West Africa. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University, where he earned an MFA in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCobra. A North Carolina native and resident, Jeffery has exhibited his art in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Visit him at CBWeatherford.com.