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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 love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.”Jacqueline Woodson
- “I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.”Jacqueline Woodson
- “To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.”Jacqueline Woodson
Explore God
- “I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attrac…”C.G. Jung
- “Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall…”Charles Wesley
- “First of all, no messiahs are sent. Secondly, no messiah got it. Lastly, no messiah is. And if there ever was…”Fakeer Ishavardas
Love: more sayings
- “After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending ti…”Sarah Dessen
- “It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun.”Becca Fitzpatrick
- “For if our bodies aren’t our own,And justice isn’t ours,And our love is just a sin,And voices by the peopleAr…”Phar West Nagle
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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