The Snowy Day, published in the 1960s, was a landmark book because up until then so little had been published with a child of color at the center of the story.
The achievements, courage and stories of her family, way back to her great-great-grandparents, inspire Woodson to bear witness to the African-American experience in the U.S.
Cooper’s first published book, Over Sea, Under Stone, started out as an adventure story but took a left turn when Cooper realized that what she really wanted to write was fantasy.
