Carole Boston Weatherford

Banning Books

March 23, 2024December 13, 2023 by Martin and Root

This month we had planned to write about several books we love that have been banned, but we realized that along with giving you a list of banned books we really wanted to write about the current tsunami of book banning in our country.

Library Love

December 13, 2023September 13, 2023 by Martin and Root

When the Babies Came to Stay Christine McDonnell

Libraries! We want to look at books about these magical places, portals to our world, our selves, and other worlds and selves we might become.

April 8, 2021March 25, 2021 by Vicki Palmquist

Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Carole Boston Weatherford has been writing since she was in first grade. Her father taught printing and was able to publish those early stories. Weatherford has written dozens of picture books for young readers — and all readers. We cannot be exhaustive here, but we can introduce you to this wonderful writer.

Books about Boxes

July 15, 2020November 19, 2015 by Vicki Palmquist

Boxes have many stories to share, stories to inspire, and stories to help us learn and be creative. Here are a few of the stories that boxes have to tell. You might well expect to find books about creative play and cardboard boxes, but there are books for a range of young readers here and boxes comes in many shapes and colors.

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Chasing Freedom Companion Booktalks

September 24, 2015September 1, 2015 by Marsha Qualey

To get you started on the Bookstorm™ Books …
Alec’s Primer Mildred Pitts Walter
illustrated by Larry Johnson
Vermont Folklife Center, 2005 Based on the true story of Alec Turner (1845−1923), who learned to read as a boy with the help of his owner’s daughter Supplement the story with stories and songs from tape-recorded interviews with Daisy Turner, Alec’s daughter A Carter G.

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Bookstorm™: Chasing Freedom

March 13, 2021September 1, 2015 by Vicki Palmquist

In this Bookstorm™: Chasing Freedom
The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
written by Nikki Grimes
illustrated by Michele Wood
Orchard Books, 2015
As Nikki Grimes writes in her author’s note for this book, “History is often taught in bits and pieces, and students rarely get the notion that these bits and pieces are connected.”… more

Banning Books

Library Love