"Rivers" by Jacqueline Woodson (BROWN GIRL DREAMING, pages 38-39)
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
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Our 2014 WInner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Congratulations Jacqueline Woodson and Nancy Paulsen Books!
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.
June is Audiobook Month!
Listen to Jacqueline Woodson reading her National Book Award Winner Brown Girl Dreaming.
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)
Jacqueline Woodson at the National Book Awards, 11/19/14
Last night, Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for Brown Girl Dreaming. Our interview with Woodson here.
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)
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature. People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability. Stories that finally reflect (and are well written) can’t do anything other than resonate.
Jacqueline Woodson, 2014 National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature, in an interview with Publishers Weekly
The Work To Be Done event, a celebration of literary icon Walter Dean Myers, was organized by his son Christopher Myers and held at Symphony Space in uptown Manhattan on March 8th. Not only were kind words said about Walter and the inspiration he had on others but how his work extends to a whole community that didn’t see themselves.
"My father told me his voice saved him, that his writing saved him," said Christopher. And in many ways his work has saved many others. Thank you Walter Dean Myers for all you’ve done and contributed through your writing and presence. And thanks to Christopher and everyone who participated and attended for a wonderful day to remember Walter.
(photos from top to bottom: Photo of Walter Dean Myers; Christopher Myers; Jason Reynolds; Eisa Davis; Jacqueline Woodson; Helga Davis; Brian Selznick; WNDB team member Jennifer Baker, Christopher Myers, and WNDB team member Dhonielle Clayton.)
Congratulations on a wonderful evening!
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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