The following materials bring books to life and support both individual and group literature study. Use these resources to draw real-world connections, plan interdisciplinary lessons, inspire unique research projects, create enrichment activities, and support differentiated instruction. 

• “Jacqueline Woodson’s Adult Novel Captures 1970s Brooklyn”

Novelist Tayari Jones reviews Woodson’s book in The New York Times, describing it in turn as “haunting”, “intense” and “moving”.

• “Gazing at Wholeness: Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘Another Brooklyn’”

In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jon Lewis-Katz says the book is much less centered on race on than on friendship, kinship and sexuality.

• “Jacqueline Woodson: ‘It’s Important to Know That Whatever Moment We’re in, It’s Not the First Time’”

This article in the U.K. newspaper The Guardian discusses Woodson’s next novel following Another Brooklyn, and the themes woven throughout her books.

• "What Reading Slowly Taught Me About Writing"

A Jacqueline Woodson 2019 TED Talk about how her habit of slow reading has helped her inhabit and appreciate stories more.

• Jacqueline Woodson Interview on The Daily Show

Woodson discusses her new novel Red at the Bone and building empathy with her characters in a 2019 interview with Daily Show host Trevor Noah.