You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston WeatherfordAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2017-07-04Pages:96
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781481449397ISBN-10:1481449397UPC:9781481449397Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), Historical, African American & BlackBook Topic:United StatesSize:7.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC3Z5PJVNA
In this "masterful, inspiring evocation of an era" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford "wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen. I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you're a young black man in 1940, he doesn't want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying. So when you hear of a civilian pilot training program at Tuskegee Institute, you leap at the chance. Soon you are learning engineering and mechanics, how to communicate in code, how to read a map. At last the day you've longed for is here: you are flying! From training days in Alabama to combat on the front lines in Europe, this is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking African-American pilots of World War II. In vibrant second-person poems, Carole Boston Weatherford teams up for the first time with her son, artist Jeffery Weatherford, in a powerful and inspiring book that allows readers to fly, too.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781481449397ISBN-10:1481449397UPC:9781481449397Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), Historical, African American & BlackBook Topic:United StatesSize:7.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC3Z5PJVNA
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. Jeffery Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children's book illustrator and a performance poet. He has lectured, performed, and led art and writing workshops in the US, the Middle East, and West Africa. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University, where he earned an MFA in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCobra. A North Carolina native and resident, Jeffery has exhibited his art in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Visit him at CBWeatherford.com.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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