Becoming Billie Holiday
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd CooperAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-10-01Pages:120
Languages:EnglishPublisher:WordsongISBN-13:9781590785072ISBN-10:159078507XUPC:9781590785072Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Topic:Music, Cultural & Regional, JazzAward:2009 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book - Author Award|2010 Tayshas Reading Commended - Young Adult AwardSize:9.60 x 6.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.07Product ID:SCF8NGWRW7
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry written by Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life: a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:WordsongISBN-13:9781590785072ISBN-10:159078507XUPC:9781590785072Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Topic:Music, Cultural & Regional, JazzAward:2009 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book - Author Award|2010 Tayshas Reading Commended - Young Adult AwardSize:9.60 x 6.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.07Product ID:SCF8NGWRW7
New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford's 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com. Floyd Cooper (1956-2021) illustrated over 110 books for children, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and a Sibert Honor. He was also the recipient of the CorettaScott King Award for The Blacker the Berry; three Coretta Scott King Honors for I Have Heard of a Land, Meet Danitra Brown, and Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea; 10 ALA Notables; and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. Visit floydcooper.com.
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🏆 2009 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book - Author Award|2010 Tayshas Reading Commended - Young Adult Award
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