![Photo of Floyd Cooper](jpg/1048-2.jpg)
Floyd Cooper
27 Total Resources 1 Lifetime Achievement Awards 93 Total Book Awards 49 Books
Our Original Resources 5
Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Floyd Cooper about Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Floyd Cooper about The Blacker the Berry
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Floyd Cooper about Meet Danitra Brown
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Floyd Cooper about I Have Heard of a Land
Created by TeachingBooks
Audio Name Pronunciation with Floyd Cooper
Created by TeachingBooks
About the Author 1
Audio Name Pronunciation with Floyd Cooper
Created by TeachingBooks
Author Interviews 11
Interview with Floyd Cooper
Created by Kids Ask Authors podcast
![Horn Book](jpg/dre9dtxo_bigger.jpg)
Guest Blog Post by Floyd Cooper
Created by Horn Book
Interview with Floyd Cooper about Sprouting Wings
Created by Politics and Prose
![The Brown Bookshelf](jpg/chjj8qek_bigger.jpg)
Guest post by Floyd Cooper about Unspeakable
Created by The Brown Bookshelf
![The Brown Bookshelf](jpg/chjj8qek_bigger.jpg)
Interview with Floyd Cooper about A Day for Rememberin'
Created by The Brown Bookshelf
![A Fuse #8 Production](jpg/rxuarch8_bigger.jpg)
Interview with Floyd Cooper about Unspeakable
Created by A Fuse #8 Production
![Lerner Publications](jpg/j38dwfrl_bigger.jpg)
Interview with Floyd Cooper about Unspeakable
Created by Lerner Publications
Interview with Floyd Cooper about The Ring Bearer
Created by NJ.com
Interview with Floyd Cooper about Queen of the Track
Created by Unpacking the POWER of Picture Books
![Kirkus Reviews](png/yy4xjlsy_bigger.png)
Interview with Floyd Cooper about Something to Prove
Created by Kirkus Reviews
![The Brown Bookshelf](jpg/chjj8qek_bigger.jpg)
Interview with Floyd Cooper about Willie and the All-Stars
Created by The Brown Bookshelf
Lifetime Achievement Awards 1
![Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005-2022](png/201.png.pagespeed.ce.unp4_pf3ai.png)
Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005-2022
Illustrator Winner, 2022
Books by Floyd Cooper 49
![Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre](jpg/73500_hi-2.jpg)
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
69 Resources23 Awards
![Becoming Billie Holiday](jpg/159078507x.jpg)
![Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History](jpg/0060277092.jpg)
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
by Walter Dean Myers and Floyd Cooper
22 Resources3 Awards
![Meet Danitra Brown](jpg/0688120733.jpg)
![The Blacker the Berry: Poems](jpg/0060253754.jpg)
![Ruth and the Green Book](jpg/0761352554.jpg)
![Sweet, Sweet Memory](jpg/0786802413.jpg)
![Danitra Brown Leaves Town](jpg/0688131557.jpg)
![Where's Rodney?](jpg/1930238738.jpg)
![Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea](jpg/0060210877.jpg)
![A Beach Tail](jpg/1590787129.jpg)
![These Hands](jpg/0547215665.jpg)
![Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion](jpg/1590788508.jpg)
Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion
by Heather Lang and Floyd Cooper
14 Resources2 Awards
![Ma Dear's Aprons](jpg/0689810512.jpg)
![Pass It on: African American Poetry](jpg/0590457705.jpg)
![A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream](jpg/0399252843.jpg)
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream
by Kristy Dempsey and Floyd Cooper
12 Resources4 Awards
![I Have Heard of a Land](jpg/0060234776.jpg)
![When Africa Was Home](jpg/0531059251.jpg)
![Ira's Shakespeare Dream](jpg/1620141558.jpg)
![Sisters & Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams](jpg/0399169067.jpg)
Sisters & Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams
by Howard Bryant and Floyd Cooper
11 Resources1 Award
![Grandpa's Face](jpg/0399215255.jpg)
![The Back of the Bus](jpg/0399250913.jpg)
![African Beginnings](jpg/0688102565.jpg)
![Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes](jpg/0399226826.jpg)
![Brick by Brick](jpg/0061920827.jpg)
![The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge](jpg/70776_hi.jpg)
![Mississippi Morning](jpg/0802852114.jpg)
![Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation](jpg/0802853196.jpg)
![The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars](jpg/0399218718.jpg)
![Tough Boy Sonatas](jpg/1932425772.jpg)
![Freedom School, Yes!](jpg/0399230068.jpg)
![Be Good to Eddie Lee](jpg/0399219935.jpg)
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