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On "Who Can Tell My Story"
Last Thursday at a panel on diversity in children's and YA publishing hosted by Emerson College's Writing, Literature, and Publishing program, Kirkus editor Vicky Smith referenced the current #OwnVoices movement in support of books featuring diverse characters created by authors and illustrators from the same diverse group. For those in the...
Jacqueline Woodson on Another Brooklyn, diversity, and more
Photo: Marty UmansJacqueline Woodson's new book Another Brooklyn is a novel for adults, her first in more than two decades, but fans of her children's books found plenty to enjoy when she discussed her work at Porter Square Books on Wednesday, August 17th.Woodson talked to WGBH's Callie Crossley, who also...
Brown Girl Dreaming | Class #2, 2016
Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming is a coming-of-age memoir in eloquent free verse. Consider how form and voice reflect the young girl’s discovery of self and the world around her....
Brown Girl Dreaming: Author Jacqueline Woodson’s 2015 BGHB NF Honor Speech
Hey Everybody. I want to thank the committee for choosing Brown Girl Dreaming as a Boston Globe–Horn Book honor book. It wasn’t an easy book to write — I know no book is easy — but Brown Girl Dreaming took me on a writing journey like no other. And while...
Jacqueline Woodson, why are you so poet?
When the Cambridge Public Library announced that Brown Girl Dreaming would be this year’s Cambridge Reads book I was beyond thrilled. Now Jacqueline Woodson and I would be best friends! I’d say, Jacqueline, you are my hero, thank you for your perspective, your advocacy and for creating windows and mirrors...
Dream Keepers: 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award Acceptance
It is Friday afternoon and I’m sitting in a restaurant in Vancouver, B.C. In an hour, I will give my final talk of a two-day visit. In these two days, I’ve visited a number of schools in Vancouver — both independent and public. As I stood in front of each...
Profile of 2015 CSK Author winner Jacqueline Woodson
Photo: Marty UmansOne of the greatest joys of my career has been seeing Brown Girl Dreaming come to life and reverberate as it has been handed from reader to reader.I have been lucky enough to work with Jacqueline Woodson for almost twenty years. She was the very first author I...
Reviews of the 2015 CSK Author Award winners
Winner: Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 328 pp.8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and...
Review of Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin328 pp. 8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and infancy...
Fall 2014 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Jacqueline Woodson
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2014 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Fall Publishers’ Preview, a semiannual advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.Sponsored byFrom Newbery Honor author and...
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