The Booking Biz is over the moon with congratulations for our client Don Tate, whose latest books have garnered numerous awards.
Don’s picture book POET: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF GEORGE MOSES HORTON, which he wrote and illustrated, won Crystal Kite Awards from the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Don won for the Texas/Oklahoma region and Melanie for the Southwest region. SCBWI’s Crystal Kite Awards are the only peer-voted awards for children’s books.
Don also won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award for two picture books: POET and THE AMAZING AGE OF JOHN LYNCH, which he illustrated based on text by author Chris Barton. The Carter G. Woodson Book Award is given by the National Council for the Social Studies to the most distinguished books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States.
Don’s books both tell the stories of former slaves. POET: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF GEORGE MOSES HORTON tells the story of a North Carolina slave in the 19th century who taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time though not his freedom. He was the first African-American in the South to be published and protested slavery through verse. THE AMAZING AGE OF JOHN LYNCH is a biography about another man who spent his childhood as a slave, this time in Mississippi, who was freed with the Emancipation Proclamation. He served as justice of the peace and was eventually elected into the U.S. Congress.