Concerned about his inattentiveness but impressed by his talent, his mother enrolled him in extra-curricular art classes. In elementary school, he doodled anime’ in class and sometimes forgot to take homework notes. Jeffery caught the art bug early on after his mother framed his first self portrait. She didn’t dream that he would be an artist. When Jeffery was born, his grandmother noticed his prominent hands and predicted that he would one day do important work. His art has exhibited in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. A North Carolina native, he lives in Maryland.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Winston-Salem State University where he was a Chancellor’s Scholar majoring in graphics/animation. in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective, AfriCobra. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University where he earned an M.F.A. Rosenwald: The School that Hope Built Princeville: The 500-Year Flood and A Bat Cave: An Abecedarian Bedtime Chronicle. He has lectured, performed and led art and writing workshops in the U.S. He contributed to the award-winning anthology We Rise We Resist We Raise Our Voices, As a designer, he worked on Africa Dear Mr. His debut book, You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen, garnered starred reviews, made the American Library Association’s ALSC Notables list and was selected among the year’s best books by Kirkus Review, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council for the Social Studies and the New York Public Library. Jeffery is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and performance poet. She is a Professor of English at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.Ĭarole Boston Weatherford, North Carolina Award for Literature recipient, discusses her background and books. in creative writing from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. in publications design from University of Baltimore and an M.F.A. Since her literary debut with Juneteenth Jamboree in 1995, Carole’s books have received three Caldecott Honors, two NAACP Image Awards, an SCBWI Golden Kite Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor and many other honors.įor career achievements, Carole received the Ragan-Rubin Award from North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Literature Award, among the state’s highest civilian honors. Her father, a high school printing teacher, printed some of her early poems on index cards.

Mother/son-author/illustrator duo Carole & Jeffery Boston Weatherfordīaltimore-born and -raised, Carole composed her first poem in first grade and dictated the verse to her mother on the ride home from school.

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