Floyd Cooper

13-time AALBC.com Bestselling Author

Top 100 AALBC Bestselling Author

Biography

Floyd Cooper (January 8, 1956 – July 15, 2021) has been honored with 4 Coretta Scott King Honors, 10 ALA Notables, and many more for his illustrations by the Coretta Scott King Award. Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he received a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma. In 1984 Cooper came to New York City to pursue a career as an illustrator of books, and he now lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his family. Read more about Cooper at the Brown Bookshelf.

Learn more at Floyd Cooper’s official website.

ISNI: 0000 0000 6316 5049

46 Books by Floyd Cooper

Tasha’s Voice

Tasha’s Voice

A Beach Tail

A Beach Tail

Sisters of the Neversea

Sisters of the Neversea

A Day for Rememberin’: Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day

A Day for Rememberin’

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Unspeakable

Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States

Sprouting Wings

A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story

A Ride to Remember

The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge

The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge

Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams

Sisters and Champions

Where’s Rodney?

Where’s Rodney?

The Ring Bearer

The Ring Bearer

Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History

Frederick Douglass

A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent

A Spy Called James

Juneteenth for Mazie

Juneteenth for Mazie

Ira’s Shakespeare Dream

Ira’s Shakespeare Dream

These Hands

These Hands

Brick by Brick (Paperback)

Brick by Brick (Paperback)

A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream

A Dance Like Starlight

Max and the Tag-Along Moon

Max and the Tag-Along Moon

Brick by Brick

Brick by Brick

Ruth and the Green Book

Ruth and the Green Book

Back of the Bus

Back of the Bus

Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation

Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation

Becoming Billie Holiday

Becoming Billie Holiday

Willie and the All-Stars

Willie and the All-Stars

The Blacker The Berry

The Blacker The Berry

Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color

Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color

Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan

Jump!

Freedom School, Yes!

Freedom School, Yes!

I Have Heard of a Land

I Have Heard of a Land

Tree of Hope

Tree of Hope

Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World

Bound for America

Satchmo’s Blues

Satchmo’s Blues

Shake Rag: From the Life of Elvis Presley

Shake Rag

Cumbayah

Cumbayah

Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes

Coming Home

Meet Danitra Brown

Meet Danitra Brown

Ma Dear’s Aprons

Ma Dear’s Aprons

Mandela

Mandela

Grandpa’s Face

Grandpa’s Face

One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing

One April Morning

Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea

Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea

How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children

How Sweet the Sound

Gingerbread Days

Gingerbread Days

Daddy, Daddy, Be There

Daddy, Daddy, Be There

Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Birthday

Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Birthday

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