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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
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- “Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were ju…”Gerry Abbey
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- “Once upon a time in the Land of Sad, / a girl went on a journey. / She was not a princess, except to her moth…”Susan Browne
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- “I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dres…”Iris Apfel
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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