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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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- “I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy…”Ben Miller
- “You might fear you don’t have what it takes, but you don’t need to have all the answers or everything figured…”Mensah Oteh
- “Open your mind to a new pattern of thinking and your life will drastically change for the better.”Mensah Oteh
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- “I love D.C. - people who have such cosmopolitan background, who are doing interesting things. It's a fraction…”Margaret Brennan
- “I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.”Giorgio Moroder
- “I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.”Jim Carrey
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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