New York Times bestselling author and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford discusses how she selects subject and premise, determines point of view and verb tense, develops voice, and mashes up the genres of poetry, biography, historical fiction, and informational books. Get ready to learn from a true master of picture books.
This course includes lifetime access to over 50 minutes of video and Q&A, plus a downloadable transcript.
Make a Decision to Create Better Picture Books
There's a reason Carole Boston Weatherford wins award after award for her picture book. In this video, she shares the thoughts behind her decisions to help you learn to make better decisions in your own picture book writing.
Decisions, Decisions: Picturing a Book includes:
50+ minute video presentation
Downloadable transcript
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Carole Boston Weatherford
Books by New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford have received three Caldecott Honor Medals, multiple Coretta Scott King awards and honors, two NAACP Image Awards, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor, Flora Steiglitz Straus Award, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, Arnold Adoff Poetry Award and Honors, Charlotte Zolotow Award, Jefferson Cup, and Carter G. Woodson Award.
Her 50-plus titles include Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom ; Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America , and Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane. Her latest picture books The Legendary Miss Lena Horne, In Your Hands, Dorothea Lange: How the Photographer Found the Faces of the Depression; and Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library .
Recipient of the North Carolina Award for literature, Carole teaches at Fayetteville State University.
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