Saturday, December 20, 2008

Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford



This is a wonderful biography of Billie Holiday, written in prose, with her song titles as poem titles. I really, really enjoyed this book. It reminded me of Our Own, Syliva which really made me want to read more about her. All of our libraries have this biography in juvenile, though. The subject matter is actually quite mature! (you know, prostitution, dropping out of school, drugs, etc) I'm going to give this one a NO, because I don't think it'll win, but if you can buy it for your collection, it would be worth it.

1 comment:

Allison said...

I'm also a Nay. Don't see alot of teen appeal.