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by Carole Boston Weatherford (Author), Bagram Ibatoulline (Illustrator)
"An imaginative triumph that will mesmerize readers" --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
With dozens of major awards between them, a revered poet and a versatile artist pool their mastery to sing the praises of an undersea wonder.
Author Biography
Carole Boston Weatherford is a Newbery Honoree and a New York Times best-selling author and poet and was named the 2025-2026 Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. 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; the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, illustrated by Eric Velasquez; the Newbery Honor Book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood; and How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee, illustrated by Frank Morrison. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in Maryland.
Bagram Ibatoulline has illustrated many highly acclaimed books for children, including Runaway Pond by Nancy Price Graff; The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and Great Joy, both by Kate DiCamillo; The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman; On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells; and The Serpent Came to Gloucester by M. T. Anderson. Bagram Ibatoulline lives in Chichester, New York.
