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The Day You Begin
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The Day You Begin Hardcover - 2018

by Woodson, Jacqueline; López, Rafael

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National Book Award winner Woodson--the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature--and two-time Pura BelprZ Illustrator Award winner L--pez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even while feeling scared and alone. Full color.l color.

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Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/28/2018. Hardcover. New.
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  • Title The Day You Begin
  • Author Woodson, Jacqueline; López, Rafael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Publisher Nancy Paulsen Books
  • Date 08/28/2018
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780399246531
  • ISBN 9780399246531
  • Themes
    • Character Trait: Individuality
    • Character Trait: Self-Esteem
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
    • Topical: Friendship

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2018, Page 0
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2018, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 09/01/2018, Page 72
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2018, Page 128
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/11/2018, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 08/01/2018, Page 55
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/31/2018, Page 0

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.

Rafael Lpez won Pura Belpr medals for Drum Dream Girl and Book Fiesta, and has also received three Pura Belpr honors, two Amricas Book Awards, and the 2017 Toms Rivera Children's Book Award and Society of Illustrators Original Art Silver Medal. His work has been featured in Communication Arts, American Illustration Annual, Graphic Design USA and Huffington Post. He's a founder of San Diego's Urban Art Trail movement, created seven US Postal Stamps, and created official posters for the '08 and '12 Obama-Biden campaigns.

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