Jacqueline woodson

The award-winning author on her mission to diversify publishing — and why she turned back to adult readers with her new novel, “Red at the Bone.”

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s...

This important and beautiful book about the small acts of kindness and their ripple effects needs to be read in every classroom.

The recent titles that made it into BBC Culture's 100 greatest children's books reveal how storytelling for children is evolving in exciting ways, writes Hephzibah Anderson.

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times -bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves…

NEW YORK (AP) — Illustrator Michaela Goade became the first Native American to win the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children's picture story, cited for “We Are Water Protectors," a celebration of nature and condemnation of the “black snake” Dakota Access Pipeline.

Jacqueline Woodson is a prolific writer and National Book Award-winning author. She's talking inspiration, writer's block, and her new book.

When Jacqueline Woodson writes, she hopes to do something new, potentially outside of the bounds of what some may call tradition.

The bestselling author of the memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming was recently named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Here’s how she plans to use her new platform.

We speak a different language in my grandmother’s house.