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Coming on Home Soon (Caldecott Honor Book)
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Coming on Home Soon (Caldecott Honor Book) Hardcover - 2004

by Woodson, Jacqueline

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Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. During World War II, women are needed to fill the men's jobs. Every day Ada Ruth and Grandma wait, watching for the letter that says Mama will be coming home soon.

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  • Title Coming on Home Soon (Caldecott Honor Book)
  • Author Woodson, Jacqueline
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nancy Paulsen Books, New York
  • Date 2004-10-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4CNO3H001E02
  • ISBN 9780399237485 / 0399237488
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 11 x 8.8 x 0.4 in (27.94 x 22.35 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 550
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Grandmothers
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003021949
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily routine, missing Mama all the time. They find strength in each other, and a stray kitten even arrives one day to keep them company, but nothing can fill the hole Mama left. Every day they wait, watching for the letter that says Mama will be coming on home soon. Set during World War II, Coming On Home Soon has a timeless quality that will appeal to all who wait and hope.

From the publisher

Born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She now writes full-time and has recently received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. Her other awards include a Newbery Honor, two Coretta Scott King awards, two National Book Award finalists, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Although she spends most of her time writing, Woodson also enjoys reading the works of emerging writers and encouraging young people to write, spending time with her friends and her family, and sewing. Jacqueline Woodson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Media reviews

"Woodson and Lewis tell a moving historical story of longing and separation. [The] period and place are wonderfully specific; the yearning is timeless.”—Booklist, starred review

Citations

  • ALA Notable Children's Books, 02/15/2005, Page 1020
  • Black Issues Book Review, 07/01/2005, Page 65
  • Booklist, 08/01/2004, Page 1925
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2005, Page 776
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/15/2005, Page 776
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 02/01/2005, Page 272
  • Christian Home & School, 01/01/2005, Page 27
  • Horn Book Magazine, 09/01/2004, Page 577
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2005, Page 59
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 09/15/2004, Page 923
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/29/2004, Page 40
  • School Library Journal, 10/01/2004, Page 137

About the author

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After; New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

E. B. Lewis has illustrated more than fifty picture books, including Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Talkin' About Bessie (by Nikki Grimes) and Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon (by Jacqueline Woodson). He taught art in public schools for twelve years, and currently teaches at the University of Arts in Philadelphia. He lives in Folsom, New Jersey.

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