Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Our 2014 WInner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Congratulations Jacqueline Woodson and Nancy Paulsen Books!
Jacqueline Woodson at the National Book Awards, 11/19/14
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Last night, Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for Brown Girl Dreaming. Our interview with Woodson here.
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Listen to Jacqueline Woodson reading her National Book Award Winner Brown Girl Dreaming.
I’m not afraid of silence.
National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson speaking to Terry Gross, host of NPR’s Fresh Air. Hear more of Woodson’s interview here.
Do you remember the first poem you ever memorized?
“Hold fast to dreams/ For if dreams die/ Life is a broken-winged bird/ That cannot fly.” It’s just that verse and that’s why that’s in the very beginning of the book. I know it like I know my name.
(via Author Jacqueline Woodson On Memories, Verse and the National Book Award - Speakeasy - WSJ)
Congratulations Jacqueline Woodson!
Her National Book Award winning book Brown Girl Dreaming is the winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Newbery Honor book!
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn’t have had otherwise
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming. She’s one of the finalists for the 2014 National Book Award in the Young People’s Literature category. The finalists were announced today on Morning Edition. NPR’s Kat Chow interviewed Woodson earlier this year about her stories and the need for more diversity in books. (via npr)
Will Alexander, whose Goblin Secrets won a 2012 National Book Award, joined Google’s Connected Classroom to speak with Time for Kids and our summer BookUp students.
Join the next Hangout featuring 2013 National Book Award winner Gene Luen Yang.
National Book Award Winners Jacqueline Woodson and Phil Klay know what they’ll be reading tomorrow for National Readathon Day. Do you?
If you’re looking to finish a book in a single sitting, here are lists of short books recommended by The Huffington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Electric Literature, and National Readathon Day sponsor GoodReads. And we’ve also collected some of our reading lists of National Book Award Winning books here.
Please support our education programs by donating and pledging to read for tomorrow’s Readathon, and share your experiences on social media with the #TimeToRead hashtag!
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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