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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
3.5/5. I'd love to buy this and share with Milo when he's older.
Read it - amazing and beautiful. It won three awards - National Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Newberg Honor Award. A truly lovely book, in case you're in the need of lovely.
I was immersed in her story.
I could have been her friend.
Her family member
Her neighbor.
I could feel the South.
I could feel Brooklyn.
I was there at her "daddy's" passing.
It made me want to write.
Every word.
Of my own story.
I could have been her friend.
Her family member
Her neighbor.
I could feel the South.
I could feel Brooklyn.
I was there at her "daddy's" passing.
It made me want to write.
Every word.
Of my own story.
Beautiful & lyrical. Jacqueline Woodson certainly has a way with words.
A perfect read aloud with an author's note that wraps up the story so nicely. Looking forward to adding this to our library and putting it in the hands of students & teachers!
I've been in a reading lull, so to pull myself out I wanted something fast and easy to read. But, because I'm me, I needed that fast and easy read to be well done and powerful, hiding depth beyond measure in its form. Enter Brown Girl Dreaming.
This is a memoir in verse, the story of an African American girl born in Ohio but growing up in South Carolina during the civil rights movement and then later moving to Brooklyn/Bushwick. It's a story of family, history, attachment to place and fitting in, but it's also of an ode to stories and a tale of becoming a writer.
When I read a book that tackles race, I don't feel comfortable making full-fledged reviews that claim the author properly explained X, Y and Z, because it's one of those times where my role is to sit there and listen, not judge. What I can say is that Woodson portrayed things powerfully. She made me think of things in ways I hadn't before, especially the experience of growing up in the south during the 60's, the extreme highs and the lows. She made me ask more questions and seek more answers. She hit me over the head with how recent all of this was, something that can be so easy to forget.
This should be required reading. It's accessible and emotional. It's poetry because it's distilled, perfectly so, not because it's overly artsy. Woodson made me love her family and crave the slowness of the South. She made me hurt and made me hope.
I gave it a 4/5 because sometimes it did feel too simple, but that's probably just my general aversion to poetry as a form taking over rather than a comment on the work itself.
This is a memoir in verse, the story of an African American girl born in Ohio but growing up in South Carolina during the civil rights movement and then later moving to Brooklyn/Bushwick. It's a story of family, history, attachment to place and fitting in, but it's also of an ode to stories and a tale of becoming a writer.
When I read a book that tackles race, I don't feel comfortable making full-fledged reviews that claim the author properly explained X, Y and Z, because it's one of those times where my role is to sit there and listen, not judge. What I can say is that Woodson portrayed things powerfully. She made me think of things in ways I hadn't before, especially the experience of growing up in the south during the 60's, the extreme highs and the lows. She made me ask more questions and seek more answers. She hit me over the head with how recent all of this was, something that can be so easy to forget.
This should be required reading. It's accessible and emotional. It's poetry because it's distilled, perfectly so, not because it's overly artsy. Woodson made me love her family and crave the slowness of the South. She made me hurt and made me hope.
I gave it a 4/5 because sometimes it did feel too simple, but that's probably just my general aversion to poetry as a form taking over rather than a comment on the work itself.
Usually not a fan of verse novels, but the poetic style lent an appropriate poignancy to Woodson's memories and dreams.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
Insightful novel in verse/memoir about growing up during the 1960s.