Brown Girl Dreaming
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : January 2016
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780147515827
- Imprint : Penguin
- Age Group : Young Adult
- Language : English
Jacqueline Woodson’s multi-award winning memoir in verse—winner of theNational Book Award, the Coretta Scott ...
Jacqueline Woodson’s multi-award winning memoir in verse—winner of the
National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Newbery
Honour—now available in paperback with new material included!
Beloved author Jacqueline Woodson shares the poignant, the gritty and the
sweet memories of her childhood—as well as revealing the first sparks that
ignited her writing career—in these lyrical free-verse poems about growing up
in the North and South. This paperback edition will include several brand-new
poems.
Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of 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.