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Tag: Carole Boston Weatherford

August 27, 2025 by Betsy Bird

The Multi-Interview: Accompanying the SLJ Piece “Authors Tackle Complex Topics in Children’s Nonfiction”

Bonus content! Why interview just one author when you can interview a slew? Today we speak with a host of different nonfiction creators of children's books to figure out how they make their difficult topics child appropriate.

October 30, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Book Announcement and Q&A: IF KAMALA CAN – A Talk with Carole Boston Weatherford and Ariana Pacino

A new kind of Kamala Harris picture book is on the horizon, slated for 2025, and today we're talking with the creators all about it.

February 16, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Outspoken Paul Robeson by Carole Boston Weatherford, ill. Eric Velasquez

If you’re going to do a biography of a complicated subject, and bring any kind of nuance to the telling, then you better saddle up and pour your heart and soul into the effort. You’re going to have to make a book like this one.

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An Unspeakable Interview: Talking with Carole Boston Weatherford & Floyd Cooper About the Tulsa Race Massacre

January 5, 2021 by Betsy Bird

"I do not think that young readers are too tender for tough topics." I talk with Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper about their nonfiction picture book on the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Video Sunday: Butterfly in the sky / I can go twice as high (thanks in large part to physics)…

November 5, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Happy news, neighborinos! Today I bring unto you a video from BookFest, a yearly celebration of children’s literature hosted (these days) by Bank Street College of Education. Kidlit TV recorded almost the entire thing live and then put it on air. This year I had the honor of moderating a panel discussion with funny folks […]

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