Brown Girl Dreaming: Author Jacqueline Woodson’s 2015 BGHB NF Honor Speech

by Jacqueline Woodson
Jan 04, 2016 | Filed in Authors & Illustrators
woodson_brown girl dreamingHey 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 I’m grateful for that journey, I am glad to have that book in print — and out of me.

Imagine a very long labor without any drugs. Then imagine the euphoria that follows. The book in the world and having its life is that euphoria — and winning this award is a part of that.

From the January/February 2016 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. For more on the 2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, click on the tag BGHB15.
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is the winner of the 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award for Brown Girl Dreaming (Paulsen/Penguin). She is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 2018-2019 and the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate.

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