Sep 19, 2022
This week Sarah and Mike
talk with author Carole Boston Weatherford about her new book,
Standing In The Need of Prayer.
From Carole Boston
Weatherford, two-time NAACP Image Award winner and author
of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, and Coretta
Scott King-winning illustrator Frank Morrison
comes STANDING IN THE NEED OF PRAYER (Crown Books
for Young Readers; on sale September 20, 2022; 32 pages; Ages 6-9),
a stunning and deeply moving picture book inspired by the
spiritual. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle the
milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American
history.
Starting from 1619 and
stretching more than four hundred years, this book features pivotal
moments such as the arrival of enslaved people in Jamestown,
Virginia; Nat Turner's rebellion; the integration of the US
military; the Selma to Montgomery marches; and present-day
protests. It also celebrates the feats of African American
musicians and athletes, such as Duke Ellington and Florence
Griffith Joyner. Carole Boston Weatherford’s riveting text and
Frank Morrison’s evocative and detailed paintings are informative
reminders of yesterday, hopeful images for today, and aspirational
dreams of tomorrow.
Carole Boston
Weatherford is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner
and the author of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race
Massacre, which won the Coretta Scott King Author and
Illustrator Awards, a Caldecott Honor, and a Sibert Honor; the
Newbery Honor book Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to
Freedom; and the Caldecott Honor books 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. Born in Baltimore,
Weatherford now teaches at Fayetteville State University, in North
Carolina.