C Weatherford

Becoming Billie Holiday

Illustrator: Cooper, Floyd

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jazz vocalist Billie Holliday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Astra Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Altersempfehlung: 13 bis 17 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781635925579
• ISBN-10: 1635925576
• Artikelnr.: 61678617

Autorenporträt

New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford’s 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer,and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com.  Floyd Cooper (1956–2021) illustrated over 110 books for children, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and a Sibert Honor. He was also the recipient of the CorettaScott King Award for The Blacker the Berry; three Coretta Scott King Honors for I Have Heard of a Land, Meet Danitra Brown, and Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea; 10 ALA Notables; and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. Visit floydcooper.com.