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Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny, and Byron, Kenny's older brother, who, at thirteen, is an "official juvenile delinquent."
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.
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"AN ALA TOP TEN BEST BOOK 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"
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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
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 Listener Reviews
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Marshall Wise, 9/12/2022
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Kelly Vavra, 8/27/2021
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Lou Ellen Hamby, 9/30/2015
About Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis made an outstanding debut in children’s literature with The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963. His second novel, Bud, Not Buddy, is the first book ever to receive both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award.
About LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton is an Emmy Award–winning actor, presenter, director, author, and Earphones Award–winning narrator. He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children’s series Reading Rainbow, as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots. He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of Star Trek, among other programs. He was named 2017’s Best Male Literary Citizen by Literary Hub and is a 2020 recipient of the Ember Award for unsung contributions to literature.