Companion Book Series

We are over the moon to highlight the work of the amazing author Carole Boston Weatherford and her son, the incredible illustrator, Jeffery Boston Weatherford as a feature of advanced curriculum for older children. Enjoy the Weatherford's website and supplemental materials based around their inspiring book collaboration, "You Can Fly." Please find links, images and videos within the Companion Book section, tied to the resources in constructing, "You Can Fly, The Tuskegee Airmen." Please read the synopsis below:

"Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.

I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you’re a young black man in 1940, he doesn’t want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying.

So when you hear of a civilian pilot training program at Tuskegee Institute, you leap at the chance. Soon you are learning engineering and mechanics, how to communicate in code, how to read a map. At last the day you’ve longed for is here: you are flying!

From training days in Alabama to combat on the front lines in Europe, this is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking African-American pilots of World War II. In vibrant second-person poems, Carole Boston Weatherford teams up for the first time with her son, artist Jeffery Weatherford, in a powerful and inspiring book that allows readers to fly, too."