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The Year in Words and Pictures—and Stories
As the speeches and profiles arrived for this year’s ALA Awards special issue, we noticed a theme: so many of them address the idea of learning from others, especially those who came before. That’s part of the work of acceptance speeches, of course, as creators give credit to their influences....
Profile of 2022 CSK Illustrator Award winner Floyd Cooper
Is there a specific point in a person’s life when they go from mentee to mentor? At what stage does someone become the elder statesperson? It seems to follow that age-old adage that to become an overnight success, you just need to spend years and years working away at it....
2022 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance on behalf of the late Floyd Cooper
Floyd Cooper's family. From left: his son Dayton, wife Velma, and son Kai. Photo courtesy of Dayton Cooper. Bittersweet. I’d like to start off by thanking the 2022 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury, and of course ALA, for making this possible. But more importantly, I’d like to thank my...
2022 CSK Author Award Acceptance by Carole Boston Weatherford
I am grateful to the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury and for the support of Lerner Publishing Group and Carolrhoda Books, my editor Carol Hinz, art director Danielle Carnito, my agent Rubin Pfeffer, and my publicists Lindsay Matvick and Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati. Most of all, I am blessed that I...
Floyd Cooper's Caldecott
As promised yesterday, we are back today to talk a bit more about the late, great Floyd Cooper’s Caldecott Honor recognition for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, written by Carole Boston Weatherford. We speculated yesterday that he may have been the first in Caldecott history to have been awarded recognition...
Reviews of the 2022 CSK Illustrator Award Winners
Winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Floyd Cooper Primary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 32 pp. g 2/21 978-1-5415-8120-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-7284-1738-7 $27.99 In 1921, over the course of sixteen hours, the Black community of Greenwood, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was all but destroyed, with most of...
The 2022 Caldecott Announcement
The winner is Watercress, written by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Jason Chin, edited by Neal Porter, and published by Holiday House. Let's just sit with that cover a minute as we remember the impressive strengths of...
BGHB 2021: Unspeakable
Nonfiction week continues in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Shoshana Flax introduces the 2021 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre: The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Nonfiction is presented to author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd...
Unspeakable
The somber tone of Floyd Cooper’s illustrations in Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, written by Carole Boston Weatherford, begins on the cover. The family — mother, father, and two young girls — is obviously in distress as they appear to flee a scene of fire and destruction. For those of us in...
R.I.P. Floyd Cooper
We were so sad to learn about the death last week of prolific illustrator Floyd Cooper. A 2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book honoree for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford -- she calls it his "masterpiece" -- Cooper was well known for his mesmerizing eraser technique; see "Studio Views: Erasing Pictures." Read more by...
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