Carole Boston Weatherford, author portrait

Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is a two-time NAACP Image Award Winner, an ALA-ALSC Children’s Literature Legacy Award Winner, and the author of Standing in the Need of Prayer, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner; 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; Family Feast!; and many other acclaimed books. She was also named the 2025–2026 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Carole was born in Baltimore, where she now resides.
Black Hands
Let It Shine!
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

Black Hands
Let It Shine!
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 for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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