Caldecott Honor Book, 2023
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, 2023
Sibert Honor Book, 2023
Caldecott Award, 2023
John Steptoe Award, 2023
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, 2023
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Choosing Brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
A non-fiction picture book telling the story of Emmet Till, an African American boy brutally lynched and killed in 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who took her pain and sorrow over the murder of her son and made it into a rallying cry for the Civil Rights Movement at the time. Champions and celebrates Mamie's fearlessness and bravery in not letting her son's death be forgotten.