Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Michele Weatherford is an American author, critic, and poet. She has published over 50 children's books, primarily non-fiction and poetry. The music of poetry has fascinated Weatherford and motivated her literary career. She has won multiple awards for her books, including the 2022 Coretta Scott King Award for Author for her book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Children's Literature Legacy Award in 2025. As a critic, she is best known for her controversial criticism of Pokémon character Jynx and Dragon Ball character Mr. Popo.
Books
Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
2021
ISBN 9780593381618
Becoming Billie Holiday
2008
ISBN 9781590785072
Moses
2006
ISBN 9780786851751
Juneteenth Jamboree
1995
ISBN 9781880000182
Sink or Swim
1999
ISBN 9780613568449
The Sound That Jazz Makes
2000
ISBN 9780761457978
The African-American struggle for legal equality in American history
2000
ISBN 9780766014152
Sidewalk chalk
2001
ISBN 9780439409117
Jazz baby
2002
ISBN 9780021921676
Remember the Bridge
2002
ISBN 9780399237263
Freedom on the Menu
2004
ISBN 9780142408940
Jesse Owens
2006
ISBN 9780802795502
Birmingham, 1963
2007
ISBN 9781428177444
I, Matthew Henson
2007
ISBN 9780802796899
Before John Was a Jazz Giant
2008
ISBN 9780805079944
Leontyne Price
2014
ISBN 9780375956065
Voice of Freedom
2015
ISBN 9781536227994
Gordon Parks
2015
ISBN 9781497698512
First Pooch
2015
ISBN 9781477847626
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
2015
ISBN 9780763665319
Freedom in Congo Square
2016
ISBN 9781520078526
You Can Fly
2016
ISBN 9781481449380
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
2017
ISBN 9781536208986
Be a king
2018
ISBN 9780802723680