

A Negro League Scrapbook
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Narrator: Ezra Knight
Unabridged: 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/14/2014
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Narrator: Ezra Knight
Unabridged: 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/14/2014
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical
Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Kin, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children’s Book You Can Fly; and Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com.
This book is a must have in my personal library! This book celebrates the Black Joy of the Negro League Baseball. It is almost like visiting the museum in Kansas City in a book! I love CBW's way of rhyming to tell a story in sparse, yet poetic and memorable verse. I love pictures, so this book reall......more
Rhyming couplets and lots of historical info.......more