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| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
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| Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Publication date | September 12, 2017 |
| Pages | 48 |
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| ISBN | 978-0-7636-8046-6 |
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library is a 2017 non-fiction children's book written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Eric Velasquez. It provides a biography of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a Puerto Rican-American bibliophile and curator.
The book was well-received by critics. In 2018, it won a Walter Dean Myers Award and Golden Kite Award, among other honors.