# The Day You Begin - Hardcover

by **Jacqueline Woodson** (Author), **Rafael López** (Illustrator)

****A #1 _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER****

**Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show _Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices_**

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael L pez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

_There will be times when you walk into a room_  
_and no one there is quite like you._

There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.

Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael L pez's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.

(This book is also available in Spanish, as _El D a En Que Descubres Qui n Eres_ )

### Author Biography

**Jacqueline Woodson** (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of 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.

**Rafael López** won Pura Belpré medals for _Drum Dream Girl_ and _Book Fiesta_, and has also received three Pura Belpré honors, two Américas Book Awards, and the 2017 Tomás Rivera Children's Book Award and Society of Illustrators Original Art Silver Medal. His work has been featured in _Communication Arts_, _American Illustration Annual_, _Graphic Design USA_ and _Huffington Post_. He's a founder of San Diego's Urban Art Trail movement, created seven US Postal Stamps, and created official posters for the '08 and '12 Obama-Biden campaigns.

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 10.7 x 9.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** August 28, 2018

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Day You Begin

**Interest Level:** Lower Grades, K-3

**Reading Level:** 4

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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