<div> <div>Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John’s own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.</div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <div><i>Before John Was a Jazz Giant</i>is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor