One Maryland One Book
Free copies of and events for 2025 One Maryland One Book, "Kin: Rooted in Hope”
What if we all read the same book at the same time to discuss it? In that spirit, created ;to bring together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book, including here at Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é.
This year’s selection, Kin: Rooted in Hope is a book created by, and about, a Black family and its generations. Poet and children’s author Carole Boston Weatherford and her son, artist Jeffery Boston Weatherford, collaborated on this book that gives voice to their earliest enslaved ancestors back to the founding of Maryland. With each poem and its accompanying illustration, Carole and Jeffery tell their family story through each of their kin and the world they lived in: the Chesapeake Bay, the plantation house, Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, and more. Kin uses art and poetry to illuminate what can’t be said by historical records, in a vital story that is about Maryland’s past and its present.
The SU Fulton School of Liberal Arts is distributing a very limited amount of free print copies of the book. .
Attend a book reading and signing with the Weatherfords
Berlin Book Festival
Taylor House Museum
208 N Main St, Berlin, MD
Saturday, October 18, Noon - 4pm
For more information, contact Jenna Habermeyer jlhabermeyer@salisbury.edu.
The daughter of a printer, Carole Boston Weatherford was practically born with ink in her blood. She began writing at age 6 and soon after saw her poems in print. Her 80- plus books have garnered 2 NAACP Image Awards and 18 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, including a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award and 4 Caldecott Honors. Her career achievements have been recognized with the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Nonfiction Award from the Children’s Book Guild and induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. A retired English professor, she lives in Maryland.
Jeffery Boston Weatherford was born with such distinctive hands that his grandmother predicted he would grow up to do important work. She was right! An award-winning illustrator, Jeffery has collaborated with Carole on 3 books. He was a Romare Bearden scholar at Howard University where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. Also a performance poet and fine artist, Jeffery has performed or exhibited in the U.S., West Africa and the Middle East. He lives in North Carolina.