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Celebrate Floyd Cooper Day on May 10, 2024! Follow #FloydCooperDay or sign up for our newsletter to learn more.
Join us in celebrating Floyd Cooper’s legacy with the publication of his final book, Tasha’s Voice, on April 9, 2024.
Tasha’s Voice takes place on the same class trip featured in Carmen Bogan’s and Floyd Cooper’s Where’s Rodney?, once more showing the power of nature to transform a child. Beloved illustrator Floyd Cooper began the illustrations for this book; his mentee Daria Peoples finished them. In the back of the book, readers will learn how the book was completed following Cooper’s passing in 2021 and will find two of his original sketches.
These posters showing Carmen Bogan and Daria Peoples reading Where’s Rodney and Tasha’s Voice, respectively, will be available to the public on April 9.
Keep Floyd Cooper’s legacy alive by watching the read-aloud of the books that Floyd illustrated for Memorial Day, and Juneteenth!
The CBC will share more about the history behind each book on its blog. Let’s start with the first Memorial Day and A Day for Rememberin’.
Share with young people Floyd Cooper’s bountiful body of work in the voices of beloved and well-known authors.
KidLit TV has produced original videos of Crystal Allen, Tameka Fryer Brown, Judy Allen Dodson, Patti Gauch, Nikki Grimes, Leah Henderson, Cheryl Willis Hudson & Wade Hudson, Sharon Langley, Torrey Maldonado, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Charles Smith, and Don Tate reading from their favorite Floyd Cooper books.
The videos are now available; prepare by selecting which ones you want to show in your classroom, library, or store on May 10 or anytime that week.
The CBC wishes to thank KidLit TV, Floyd’s many author and illustrator friends, The Brown Bookshelf, The African American Children’s Book Project, Just Us Books, the Highlights Foundation, and the Dollywood Foundation for their participation in this celebration!
Please email Carl.Lennertz@cbcbooks.org with any questions.
Floyd Cooper, a celebrated children’s book illustrator who explored the African American experience in stories rooted in history, died on July 15, 2021, but his memory and legacy live on. Over 30 years, he illustrated children’s stories that not only carried his earthy and golden pastel impressions of Black life but also strived to recount chapters of African American history that he felt weren’t taught enough in classrooms. He saw humanity in every subject, in people of all ages.
Read a complete biography of Floyd Cooper’s life, work, and legacy.
Floyd Cooper Day is sponsored by friends of Floyd Cooper, The Brown Bookshelf, the Highlights Foundation, The African American Children’s Book Project, the Children’s Book Council, and Every Child a Reader.
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