Christopher Paul Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963
Christopher Paul Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 Picture Copyright © 2004 Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
• In 2000, he was the first African-American to win both the Newbery & Coretta Scott King awards • He was born May 10, 1953. After high school he worked in a automobile factory while going to college. He wrote a book on his breaks from the automobile assembly line. • He now lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, with his wife and two children.
Christopher Paul Curtis’s Hobbies 1. Basketball 2. Collecting old record albums
Awards for his book published in 1995 - Runner-up for the Coretta Scott King award for excellence by an African-American writer 1995 – Runner-up for the Newbery award Winner 2000 - ALA Best Books for Young Adults Winner 2000 - ALA Notable Children's Books Winner 2000 - California Young Reader Medal
The Watsons Go to Birmingham ---1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis • Kenny Watson is ten years old and thinks his family should be called “The Weird Watsons of Flint. ” • His family decides to leave Flint, Michigan, and go to visit their Grandmother Sands in Birmingham, Alabama. • The book is set in the year 1963. Many things are happening in the United States related to Civil Rights during this time. • Kenny’s family consists of his older, bully of a brother called Byron and his younger, pesky sister Joey.
During the visit to Birmingham, a church was bombed (In real life it was the 16 th Street Baptist Church) 4 little girls were killed in the church bombing--------
Oh no, where is Joey, Kenny’s little sister, after the bomb went off. She had gone to that very church!
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