Winner of the National Book Award, the Newbery Honor Medal (her third) and the Coretta Scott King Award for Authors, brown girl dreaming is worth every medal and more. Like the Newbery Medal winner this year, Kwame Alexander's Crossover, Woodson's book is a verse novel - two verse novels wining ALA awards in the same year! While Jacqueline Woodson's memoir in verse, brown girl dreaming, is
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Pecan Pie Baby is the eighth picture book by Jacqueline Woodson, two time Newbery winning author of feathers and After Tupac and D Foster, and Caldecott honor winner for her book Show Way illustrated by Hudson Talbott. In a year when we were bestowed with the marvelous There's Going to Be a Baby written by John Burningham and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, what I consider to be the best
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Just wanted to share this note that Ms Woodson emailed me. Couldn't leave it as a comment on the blog so I am posting it for her...<br /><br />Thanks for capturing the story so wonderfully. An author's favorite thing in the world (well, this author's) is when a reviewer really *gets* what I'm trying to say. Thanks for *getting it*. Toshi is getting used to her brother --who is