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Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2019 Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Newbery Honor Book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood; the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, which was also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; and Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, both illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in North Carolina. Reggie Brown is the illustrator of several books for children, including Tacko Fall: To New Heights by Tacko Fall and Justin Haynes, the New York Times best-selling Who Are Your People? by Bakari Sellers, the Magnificent Makers series by Theanne Griffith, and Baseball Baby and Soccer Baby by Laura Gehl. He lives in San Diego.