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.
Shewas 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.
* "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
* "Perfectly matched words and illustrations masterfully bring to
life all the emotions that the girl is experiencing as she, her
grandmother, and a stray kitten that has come to stay all try to
comfort and console one another."—School Library Journal, starred
review
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