{"product_id":"jacqueline-woodson-9780810848573","title":"Jacqueline Woodson","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoodson''s seventh grade English teacher returned her first short story to her with the comment, You are the real thing. This work explores how Woodson became the real thing, why she deserves to be acknowledged as one of the finest writers for young adults today, who her literary mentors have been, and how her family history has helped to shape her as an artist, beginning with the success of her first novel, Last Summer with Maizon. Its appearance in 1990 marked Woodson''s arrival on the literary scene for young adults. Over the past decade, Woodson has made a steady contribution to the field, providing quality literature for both younger and older adolescents and tackling difficult themes in the process. Additionally, Woodson has published numerous short stories, essays and commentaries, a novel for adults, and children''s picture books. In 1994, she compiled A Way Out of No Way: Writings About Growing Up Black in America, a collection of excerpts of writers from Baldwin to Bambura. These writers inspired her as a young reader and continue to be role models for her as she herself uses the art of writing to provide a way out of no way for other young readers, pointing a beautiful black finger toward a holy, holy place (p. 3).   As Woodson has taken an increasing number of risks with her themes, she has also continued to develop as an artist. Her body of work makes a distinctive contribution to the young adult literary world and clearly demonstrates both the writer''s commitment to young adults and her ability to continue to grow as a writer; this volume includes a critical analysis of how Woodson''s life and work intertwine and of the themes and her own goals as a writer and artist. As Woodson herself notes, I feel compelled to write against stereotypes, hoping people will see that some issues know no color, class, sexuality. . . . I write from the very depth of who I am, and in this place there are all of my identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe biographical narratives about Woodson and discussions about themes in selected works are informative and interesting. Recommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eAlthough two critical studies of two different authors may be regarded, at first sight, as unlikely bedfellows to reside within one book review, Lois Stover's Jacqueline Woodson and Suzanne Reid's Virginia Euwer Wolff do fit together...each offers a sound biographical-critical author study characteristic of the Scarecrow Studies. Each draws reasonable conclusions about the relationship between writers' lives and the texts they write and each is passionate about her subject, a woman author who is highly regarded as a 'writer to read' in young adult literature....Overall, Stover writes critically, almost intimately, about Woodson's craft. She has produced a wealth of criticism in Jacqueline Woodson and laces her analysis with anecdotes about and interviews with Woodson...In each of these Scarecrow Studies in Young Literature, the authors meet the series expectations of demonstrating how a writer's life and attitudes influence the writer's craft and how the craft has evolved in each successive novel. Jacqueline Woodson and Virginia Euwer Wolff have each produced a body of work that is distinctive in its contribution to literature written for young adults. * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eBeing able to catch a rare personal glimpse of this remarkable writer makes this a worthwhile resource. * VOYA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Preface Part 2 Chronology Chapter 3 Chapter 1 On Becoming—and Staying—a Writer Chapter 4 Chapter 2 On Being Powerless and Invisible: The Dear One andHush Chapter 5 Chapter 3 On Being Homeless: I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Lena and Locomotion Chapter 6 Chapter 4 On Being Friends: The Margaret and Maizon Trilogy Chapter 7 Chapter 5 On Being Different: From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun and The House You Pass on the Way Chapter 8 Chapter 6 On Maturing as a Writer: If You Come Softly, Miracle's Boys, Autobiography of a Family Photo, the Short Stories, and Children's Books Part 9 Selected Bibliography Part 10 Index Part 11 About the Author","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038313251159,"sku":"9780810848573","price":64.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810848573.jpg?v=1750939880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jacqueline-woodson-9780810848573","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}