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.
Sophie Blackall (www.sophieblackall.com) is the illustrator
of several award-winning picture books, including Meet Wild Boars
by Meg Rosoff, Big Red Lollipop (by Rukhsana Khan), and the Ivy and
Bean books by Annie Barrows, and she wrote and illustrated The Baby
Tree. Her many honors include a BCCB Blue Ribbon, Ezra Jack Keats
New Illustrator Award, Society of Illustrators Founders Award,
Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book, Book Sense 76 Pick, and New
York Times Top Ten Picture Book. Her artwork has also appeared in
murals as part of the New York City MTA’s “Arts for Transit”
program. Previously she has had jobs in a shoe shop and a robot
factory. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
* “Fresh and wise.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
* “Gia’s narrative voice is prime Woodson—lyrical, colloquial, and
imbued with the authentic feelings of a child.”—The Horn Book,
starred review
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