Becoming Billie Holiday

Becoming Billie Holiday

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/10/2008

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**Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award


The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry.**


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 Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.

ISBN:
9781629791739
9781629791739
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-10-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Astra Publishing House
Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was selected as the Children’s Book Guild 2019 Nonfiction Award Winner.

Her numerous books for children include the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book Becoming Billie Holiday, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Caldecott Honor Books Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes; and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina

Floyd Cooper

Floyd Cooper has received a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors for his illustrations. Mr. Cooper received a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma. .

He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife and children.

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