书名：Brown Girl Dreaming黑人女孩的梦想 
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数990L
作者：Jacqueline Woodson
出版社名称：Puffin Books
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9780147515827
商品尺寸：14.3 x 2.3 x 21 cm
包装：平装
页数：368
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广受赞誉的作家Jacqueline Woodson，用充满魅力的诗歌形式，讲述了有关其童年的故事。在这些生动鲜活的诗篇中，她分享了作为一个生活在20世纪6、70年代的非裔美国人的成长经历，当时混杂着黑人种族问题和逐渐发展的人权运动意识。每一首诗都深沉有力，饱含情感且易于引发共鸣，让我们窥见一个小孩子的内心世界，她想要在世界上寻找自己的位置，以及通过写作发现自己声音时的快乐。

Jacqueline Woodsons National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
A President Obama "O" Book Club pick
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.
Includes 7 new poems, including "Brown Girl Dreaming".

Review
"The writers passion for stories and storytelling permeates the memoir, explicitly addressed in her early attempts to write books and implicitly conveyed through her sharp images and poignant observations seen through the eyes of a child. Woodsons ability to listen and glean meaning from what she hears lead to an astute understanding of her surroundings, friends, and family."
--Publishers Weekly

"Mesmerizing journey through [Woodsons] early years. . . . Her perspective on the volatile era in which she grew up is thoughtfully expressed in powerfully effective verse. . . . With exquisite metaphorical verse Woodson weaves a patchwork of her life experience . . . that covers readers with a warmth and sensitivity no child should miss. This should be on every library shelf."
--School Library Journal

"Woodson cherishes her memories and shares them with a graceful lyricism; her lovingly wrought vignettes of country and city streets will linger long after the page is turned. For every dreaming girl (and boy) with a pencil in hand (or keyboard) and a story to share." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[Woodsons] memoir in verse is a marvel, as it turns deeply felt remembrances of Woodsons preadolescent life into art. . . . Her mother cautions her not to write about her family but, happily, many years later, she has and the result is both elegant and eloquent, a haunting book about memory that is itself altogether memorable. --Booklist

"A memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the authors childhood right along with her. . . . Most notably of all, perhaps, we trace her development as a nascent writer, from her early, overarching love of stories through her struggles to learn to read through the thrill of her first blank composition book to her realization that words are [her] brilliance. The poetry here sings: specific, lyrical, and full of imagery. An extraordinary--indeed brilliant--portrait of a writer as a young girl." -- The Horn Book

"Woodson uses clear, evocative language. . . . A beautifully crafted work."
--Library Media Connection
杰奎琳•伍德森（Jacqueline Woodson），著有多部青少年小说及插画书，其中包括《移动》（LOCOMOTION）、《如果你轻轻地来》（IF YOU COME SOFTLY）和《奇迹的男孩》（MIRACLES BOYS），后者更被导演斯派克•李（Spike Lee）改编为电视剧。杰奎琳曾三次问鼎纽伯瑞文学奖（Newbery Honor），前后两次入围美国国家图书奖（National Book Award），并三次获得过科丽塔•斯科特•金奖（Coretta Scott King）及凯迪克好书奖（Caldecott Honor）。玛格丽特•A•爱德华兹奖（Margaret A. Edwards Award）曾授予奎杰琳终身成就奖以表彰她对青少年文学做出的贡献。

Jacqueline Woodsonis the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Part I i am born
Part II the stories of south Carolina run like rivers
Part III followed the sky’s mirrored constellation to freedom
Part IV deep in my heart, i do believe
Part V ready to change the world
february 12, 1963

I am born on a Tuesday at the University Hospital

Columbus, Ohio

USA—

a country caught

between Black and White.

I am born not long from the time

or far from the place

where

my great, great grandparents

worked the deep rich land

unfree

dawn till dusk

unpaid

drank cool water from scooped out gourds

looked up and followed

the sky’s mirrored constellation

to freedom.

I am born as the south explodes,

too many people too many years

enslaved then emancipated

but not free, the people

who look like me

keep fighting

and marching

and getting killed

so that today—

February 12, 1963

and every day from this moment on,

brown children, like me, can grow up

free. Can grow up

learning and voting and walking and riding

wherever we want.

I am born in Ohio but

the stories of South Carolina already run

like rivers

through my veins.