Schomburg the man who built a library

Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.

Main Author:	Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, > 1874-1938 > Juvenile nonfiction. African American historians > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Historians > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. African American book collectors > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Book collectors > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction. Biographies > Juvenile.

Summary:	Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780763680466 076368046X
Author Notes:	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 Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , 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, which was also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library , illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in North Carolina. Eric Velasquez is the illustrator of numerous books for children, including several previous collaborations with Carole Boston Weatherford. He won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award for his illustrations of The Piano Man, written by Debbi Chocolate. Eric Velasquez is also the author-illustrator of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award-winning Grandma's Gift. Born in Harlem, he lives and works in Hartsdale, New York.