The Year We Learned to Fly
by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by Rafael López
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Fiction
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2022
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Nancy Paulsen Books (Jan 04, 2022)
Hardcover, 32 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
Description of The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López’s highly anticipated companion to their #1 New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence.
On a dreary, stuck-inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmother’s advice: “Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing. Somebody somewhere at some point was just as bored you are now.” And before they know it, their imaginations lift them up and out of their boredom. Then, on a day full of quarrels, it’s time for a trip outside their minds again, and they are able to leave their anger behind. This precious skill, their grandmother tells them, harkens back to the days long before they were born, when their ancestors showed the world the strength and resilience of their beautiful and brilliant minds. Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael Lopez’s dazzling art celebrate the extraordinary ability to lift ourselves up and imagine a better world.

- ISBN: 9780399545535
- Imprint: Nancy Paulsen Books
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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