

Birmingham 1963
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Narrator: Lizzie Cooper Davis
Unabridged: 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/15/2013
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, History, Us History
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Narrator: Lizzie Cooper Davis
Unabridged: 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/15/2013
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, History, Us History
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.
I chose to rate this book 5 stars and add it to my favorites because it does a really good job of giving students and understanding and realistic glimpse into a very painful part of american history. I think this short story really helps bring history to life, especially from a childs perspective. T......more
Very powerful book written in a contemporary poetry style. The poem tells the true story of four African American girls who were killed when the Ku Klux Klan placed sticks of dynamite in their church. Told from a fictional narrator, this book offers insight into the innocence of these young girls an......more
Told in poetry format this was a story that told about a true bombing which took place in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 which killed young girls. There was a very informative back section that explained some about the civil rights movement and how children were used in the fight against racism when ad......more
2007. Poetry/ historical non-fiction. A really moving and enlightening picture book in verse about the tragic racially motivated bombing in a church during the civil rights movement.......more