The Day You Begin (HB)

Author(s): Jacqueline Woodson

Children's Emotional Wellbeing

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature


National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael López have teamed up to create a poignant, 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 López'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)


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780399246531
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : 0.456
  • : April 2018
  • : .42 Inches X 9.38 Inches X 10.81 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jacqueline Woodson
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : Rafael López
  • : English
  • : [E]
  • : 32
  • : YFB