KidsPost Author Jacqueline Woodson stretches her creativity with new play. A musical adaptation of her book ‘The Day You Begin’ appears at the Kennedy Center through December 18.

See photos below! THE DAY YOU BEGIN. SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 22, 2023. A Play with Lots of Music Written by Jacqueline Woodson Music & Lyrics by Toshi Reagon Based on the book by Jacqueline ...

Woodson spent most of her childhood in the '60s and '70s moving from place to place, without a sense of home. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved with her brother and sister to Greenville, S ...

Even though Jacqueline Woodson’s latest release, Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin/Paulsen, Aug.), is set during the 1960s and ’70s, its themes are still relevant today, especially after a ...

Last night, at the National Book Awards, Jacqueline Woodson SO deservedly won the young people’s literature award.Woodson took home the prize for her beautiful Brown Girl Dreaming, a memoir ...

Best known for her kids' and young adult books, Woodson has written her first adult novel in 20 years. Another Brooklyn is a dreamlike narrative about friendship, memory and dealing with death.

In 2014, Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for young adult literature for an unusual book: a novel in verse, “Brown Girl Dreaming,” about a young girl moving with her family from ...

Jacqueline Woodson, one of America's premier writers of young adult and children's literature, is out with her second novel for adults called "Another Brooklyn." It's set in the Brooklyn borough ...

W hen Jacqueline Woodson’s mother died, late in the summer of 2009, the writer and her siblings had to sort out what to do with the Brooklyn building where they spent much of their childhoods ...