Becoming Billie Holiday

Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse.

Main Author:	Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
Other Authors:	Cooper, Floyd (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honesdale, Penn. : Wordsong, c2008.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959 > Young adult nonfiction. African Americans > Young adult nonfiction.

Summary:	Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse.
Physical Description:	117 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781590785072 (hardcover : alk. paper) 159078507X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford's 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Moses . She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday . Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com. Floyd Cooper (1956-2021) illustrated over 110 books for children, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and a Sibert Honor. He was also the recipient of the CorettaScott King Award for The Blacker the Berry ; three Coretta Scott King Honors for I Have Heard of a Land , Meet Danitra Brown , and Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea ; 10 ALA Notables; and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. Visit floydcooper.com.