
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
CD-Audio
Other Editions of This Title:
Digital Audiobook (7/4/2000)
Paperback (9/8/1997)
Paperback (8/6/2013)
Paperback (11/3/2020)
Mass Market (12/12/2000)
Hardcover (9/1/1995)
Paperback, Large Print (4/1/2018)
Paperback (1/1/1995)
Hardcover, Large Print (3/8/2017)
Prebound (9/8/1997)
Hardcover (12/1/2004)
Prebound (9/1/1997)
Description
When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons set out on a trip like no other. Heading South, they're going to Birmingham, Alabama, and toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.
By turns comic, tragic, and touching, this remarkable Newbery Honor work, delightfully performed by LeVar Burton in this unabridged production, will delight listeners young and old as they meet Christopher Paul Curtis, a storyteller of bold ambition and a true and original voice and his inimitable Watsons.
Praise For The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963…
AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK
AN IRA YOUNG ADULT'S CHOICE
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK
NAMED TO MULTIPLE STATE AWARD LISTS
"This is a book that changes lives. It certainly changed mine." --Kate DiCamillo, two-time Newbery Medalist
"I identify with so much in Christopher Paul Curtis's engrossing classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --David Barclay Moore, winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent
"An exceptional first novel."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Superb . . . a warmly memorable evocation of an African American family." —The Horn Book Magazine, starred review
"Ribald humor . . . and a totally believable child's view of the world will make this book an instant hit."—School Library Journal, starred review
Listening Library, 9780307243171
Publication Date: May 10, 2005