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About Jacqueline Woodson
American writer of children's and young adult books
Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for children and young adults. She is best known for Miracle's Boys and for titles including Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her work has been recognized with a Newbery Honor, and Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She served as Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, then became the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2018 to 2019. She also received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018, the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
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- “If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how…”Jacqueline Woodson
- “Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.”Jacqueline Woodson
- “This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.”Jacqueline Woodson
- “Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.”Jacqueline Woodson
More Death quotes
- “Quote from MOONLIGHT MAYHEM – pg 224 “Hero Intercedes”:His hands flickered upward, and before I knew it, they…”Sherry Soule
- “No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”William S. Burroughs
- “With time one ages, and with age one comes closer to their end. With time one builds a family, a house, a nam…”Mrinalini Mitra
Writing: more sayings
- “When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.”Mark Frost
- “My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to…”Pankaj Mishra
- “I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know…”Allison Tolman
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Books by Jacqueline Woodson
Another Brooklyn
2016
Red at the Bone
2019
If You Come Softly
2006
Hush
2006
After Tupac and D Foster
2008