A s the sweet-faced title character on the classic series Leave It to Beaver, Jerry Mathers was one of the first child stars ...

Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming) celebrates all that is essential and good for humanity—compassion, understanding, security, and freedom—in this touching novel about six children with special ...

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Jacqueline Woodson attends 2014 National Book Awards on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images)/September 1964: American clergyman ...

Jacqueline Woodson on the dichotomy of today and MLK Day: ‘Nothing we’re living in is new’ In an interview with theGrio, award-winning writer Jacqueline Woodson opens up about how artists ...

In an interview with theGrio, award-winning writer and author Jacqueline Woodson opens up about how artists and creators should show up today and any day after. Today is both the day set aside to ...

EXCLUSIVE: PBS Kids has ordered The Day You Begin, an animated special from Atomic Cartoons. The program is based on Jacqueline Woodson’s bestselling picture book and is now in production at ...

Jacqueline Woodson has received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 ...

In 1926, Black historian Carter G. Woodson set out to designate a week in February for the celebration, education, and commemoration of African American history. A child born that year would be 98 ...

Jacqueline Woodson is the author of "Before the Ever After," a novel-in-verse about a family dealing with the effects of a football-related traumatic brain injury. As part of the One Book Baltimore ...

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 ...

Mention Jacqueline Woodson—a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature—and readers begin naming favorite titles: groundbreaking LGBTQ novels (From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun ...

Jacqueline Woodson will deliver the children’s and YA lunchtime keynote on Wednesday, May 24, 12:05–12:35 p.m. Click here to register for the U.S. Book Show, ...