Carole Boston Weatherford

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2005
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Freedom on the Menu

    When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil ...

  • Jazz Baby

    A celebration of music and movement, this story in verse is inspired by the riffs, rhythms, and freedom of jazz.Colorful spreads show close-ups of children playing drums, piano, and bass as they swing, sway, and jitterbug to the music. Weatherford of...

  • Dear Mr. Rosenwald

    Renowned illustrator Gregory Christie joins the Scholastic Press list with this empowering story about an African-American community who builds their own school.

    Based on the true story of the Rosenwald schools built in the rural African-Ameri...

  • Moses

    This poetic book is a resounding tribute to Tubman's strength, humility, and devotion. With proper reverence, Weatherford and Nelson do justice to the woman who, long ago, earned over and over the name Moses....

  • Champions on the Bench

    In 1955, the Cannon Street YMCA chartered the only African American Little League in South Carolina. That same year, sixty-one all-white teams pulled out of the South Carolina Little League State Tournament so they would not have to play the Cannon S...

  • Juneteenth Jamboree

    Joining her parents in a community celebration of Juneteenth, Cassie learns about the day when slaves in Texas were freed some two years after the Emancipation Proclamation and wonders why the news took so long to reach them....

  • Celebremos Juneteenth!

    A young girl, who has just moved to her parents' hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth.It's a fine day In June. Cassandra's family has just moved from the city back to her parents'...

  • The Library Ghost

  • Becoming Billie Holiday

    Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. 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 jo...



  • The Sound That Jazz Makes

    Two acclaimed picture book talents combine in this award-winning journey through the history and legacy of jazz. Carole Boston Weatherford’s poetic text is perfectly matched with Eric Velasquez’s powerful oil paintings. ...

  • First Pooch The Obamas Pick a Pet

    Double Tap to Zoom. Throughout their father’s twenty-two month campaign for president, Malia and Sasha Obama begged their parents for a dog. Finally, when their father became the 44th President of the United States, he rewarded their patience and ...

  • Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood

    Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary. With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home duri...

  • Obama

    From birth to getting elected as president, a biography told in lyrical prose.... From his childhood in Indonesia to his teenage years in Hawaii, from his father's homeland of Kenya to the halls of Harvard Law School and, later, the South Side of...

  • Oprah: The Little Speaker

    At age three, Oprah began performing in churches, becoming known to adoring crowds as the Little Speaker. When she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she answered, "I want to be paid to talk." Here is the story of Oprah Winfrey’s chi...

  • You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

    Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier. I WANT YOU! says the poster of Un...

  • In Your Hands

    A black mother expresses the many hopes and dreams she has for her child in this powerful picture book masterpiece that’s perfect for gift-giving. When you are a newborn, I hold your hand and study your face. I cradle you as you drift to sleep...

  • Dorothea Lange

    Before she raised her lens to take her most iconic photo, Dorothea Lange took photos of the downtrodden from bankers in once-fine suits waiting in breadlines, to former slaves, to the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. A case of polio had left her with ...

  • Beauty Mark

    In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe.

    From the day she was born into a troubled home to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson...

  • Dreams for a Daughter

    This stunning and empowering picture book from a New York Times bestselling author and an acclaimed illustrator celebrates a Black mother’s hopes and dreams for her daughter.As I cradle you, look in your eyes, your gaze says softly, I want to know ...



  • The Roots of Rap

    "Carole Boston Weatherford, once again, delivers a resounding testament and reminder, that hip-hop is a flavorful slice of a larger cultural cake. And to be hip-hop-to truly be it-we must remember that we are also funk, jazz, soul, folktale, and...

  • Standing in the Need of Prayer

    CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR AWARD WINNER! A stunning and deeply moving picture book based on the popular spiritual from an award-winning author and critically acclaimed illustrator. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle the milestones...

  • From Mother Africa with Love

    In this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated picture book by award-winning author and illustrator team Carole Boston Weatherford and E. B. Lewis, Mother Africa addresses her offspring of all colors in all corners of the earth, reminding us ...

  • Bros

    A celebration of childhood from an award-winning author, this upbeat day-in-the-life of a bunch of friends was inspired by the #BlackBoyJoy meme that spurred a movement. From sunrise to sunset, a group of young Black boys joyously spend the day toget...

  • Kin

    A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Boston Globe–Horn Book Poetry Award Winner An “imaginative and moving” (The Horn Book, starred review) portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by...

  • Hair Like Obama's, Hands Like Lebron's

    From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair Like Obama's, Hands Like Lebron's is a picture book celebration of Black history and excellence from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Carole Boston We...

  • Rap It Up!

    Aspiring young rappers will delight in this infectious, read-aloud introduction to the poetry and craft of rap.From scribbling words on the page to spitting rhymes on the mic, a joyful narrator guides readers through the emotions, literary techniques...

  • When I Move

    An ode to being active and dramatic play. For fans of Ruth Krauss’s I Can Fly and Ashley Spires’s The Most Magnificent Thing, this picture book will inspire young readers to getting moving and start imagining! Simple, engag...

Award-Winning Books by Carole Boston Weatherford

Moses
2007 Coretta Scott King Award -- Illustrator


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carole Boston Weatherford has published 27 books.

The next book by Carole Boston Weatherford, When I Move, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Carole Boston Weatherford, Freedom on the Menu, was published in February 2005.

No. Carole Boston Weatherford does not write books in series.
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