Jacqueline Woodson Receives 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Author Jacqueline Woodson (the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in the United States) was named the Astrid Lindgren Memorial laureate for 2018 on March 27. [continue reading]
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Jacqueline Woodson Named Literature Ambassador
Jacqueline Woodson Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: Jacqueline Woodson has been named the 6th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress. She takes over for the previous Ambassador, Gene [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, June 12th, Jacqueline Woodson Named Young People’s Poet Laureate
ACL Meeting Friday, June 12, 2015: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, June 12, 2015, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
ACL Institute “All Due Respect” to be held April 10, 2015
The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California Proudly Presents ALL DUE RESPECT. A Dialoge about Diversity, Equity, and Creating Safe Spaces for all Youth April 10, 2015, 8:30am – 4:30pm, at the San Francisco [continue reading]
Woodson Wins Nat’l Book Award, 2015 Summer Reading, SLJ’s Best List
Jacqueline Woodson Wins National Book Award: Jacqueline Woodson’s memoir in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming, won in the Young People’s Literature category at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014. Ursula Le Guin received [continue reading]
Review of the Week – “Brown Girl Dreaming”
Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming.Non-fiction. Penguin, 2014. 336p. $16.99. 978-0-399-25251-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8. Jacqueline Woodson shares her experience of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s through a series of poem vignettes. With the Civil [continue reading]