Moses Wins Big!

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom won the American Library Association's 2007 Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. This is the second Coretta Scott King Award for artist Kadir Nelson. Moses, a New York Times bestseller, also clinched an NAACP Image Award and has been named to nearly a dozen best book of the year lists.

Dear Mr. Rosenwald Wins SCBWI Golden Kite Honor

Dear Mr. Rosenwald won a Golden Kite Honor for picture book text from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. The book was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award.

I, Matthew Henson Garners Four Stars

I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer has received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews. Marking the centennial of the 1909

North Pole expedition, this book is the third collaboration between Weatherford

and illustrator Eric Velasquez.

Jesse Owens Takes Off!

Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive has received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and School Library Journal. In the book, a series of poems reenact Owens' triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens is illustrated by Eric Velasquez. He and Carole also collaborated on The Sound that Jazz Makes, winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award from National Council for the Social Studies.

Media

Press Kit now available.

Featured Guest

Carole talks shop on WFDD-FM's "Voices & Viewpoints." Listen. (See archive, 2/22/2008)

Carole discusses her new book, The Carolina Parakeet: America's Lost Parrot in Art and Memory (Avian Publications, 2005), on WUNC-FM's "The State of Things." This cautionary tale chronicles the decline of North America's only native parrot. The book assembles a wealth of primary sources: antique illustrations, photos of scientific specimens and the musings of explorers, naturalists and ornithologists. Listen. (see air date of 12/14/2005).

Poetic Tribute to Rosa Parks

Carole reads her poem, "December 1, 1955: Before Rosa Altered History" on NPR's "News and Notes." Listen.

Pitching Negro League Hall of Famers

Carole goes to bat for Negro League baseball players on NPR's "News and Notes." Listen.

Carole's on childrenslit.com

An interview of Carole appears on childrenslit.com. Now, students doing book reports will know more than they ever wanted!