2009, Delaware Diamonds Award, Nominee2009, Golden Kite, Honor Book2013, Georgia Children's Book Award, Nominee2009, Coretta Scott King Award, Honor Book2008, Golden Kite, Winner
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.
Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Hardcover.
About the Author
CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD wrote the Caldecott Honor book Moses: When Harriet Tubman Lead Her People to Freedom. She lives in North Carolina.
SEAN QUALLS illustrated the widely acclaimed biographies
The Poet Slave of Cuba and
Dizzy. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
