Peabody Library hosted children’s author and poet Carole Boston Weatherford Oct. 9. Weatherford’s interactive presentation modeled using poetry in the classroom.
New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford has 32 books, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, winner of an NAACP Image Award, Caldecott Honor Medal and Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. Birmingham, 1963 won the Jefferson Cup, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and a Jane Addams Children’s Literature Honor. Winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award from National Council for the Social Studies and the Ragan-Rubin Award from the North Carolina English Teachers Association.
Contact Lara Beth Lehman, 322-8226
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