The Day You Begin
The Day You Begin
Hardcover – Picture Book, August 28, 2018
by Jacqueline Woodson (Author), Rafael López (Illustrator)
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National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López 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 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.
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books; Illustrated edition
(August 28, 2018)
Language: English
Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0399246533
ISBN-13: 978-0399246531
Reading Age: 5 - 8 years, from customers
Lexile Measure: AD980L
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3
Item Weight: 5.6 ounces
Dimensions: 7.76 x 5.08 x 0.15 inches
