A review by outcolder
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

5.0

Schomburg is one of my personal heroes, even if his classification system diverges sharply from library science principles, wink, wink. This beautiful, award-winning tribute to Harlem’s number one bibliomaniac also includes short portraits of some of the women and men of genius with African ancestry who Schomburg brought to the world’s attention. I would have loved more, especially the childhood in Puerto Rico and the activism during the Harlem Renaissance, but that’s part of the challenge with writing for 8 to 12 year-olds. One day, I will get to the Sinnette biography.