Based on Christopher Paul Curtis's 1995 novel (and adapted by Cherly L. West), The Watsons Go To Birmingham is the latest production at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. This historical drama ...

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NPR: January Kids' Book Club Pick: 'The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963' January Kids' Book Club Pick: 'The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963' National Catholic Reporter: 'Watsons Go to Birmingham' an opportunity to talk about things that matter 'Watsons Go to Birmingham' an opportunity to talk about things that matter The Washington Post: ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham’: Hallmark’s warm but bumpy road trip to history Hallmark Channel's warm but sometimes thin adaptation of "The Watsons Go to Birmingham," based on Christopher Paul Curtis's award-winning children's book, is at first a welcome departure from the ... ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham’: Hallmark’s warm but bumpy road trip to history In a summer fraught with hate and strife, the Watsons reacted with love and kindness. They were but one family, and fictional at that. But the Newbery Medal-winning book "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" ...

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Chicago Sun-Times: Horrific moment in time tests family bonds in ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham’ Horrific moment in time tests family bonds in ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham’ The Hallmark Channel’s original movie, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, follows a family from Flint, MI who travels to Birmingham in the summer of 1963—the same year the four little girls were killed in ... Christopher Paul Curtis didn’t set out to write a classic kids’ novel 25 years ago. “The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963,” his first book, was originally a simple family road trip story told in the ...