The Year We Learned to Fly (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780399545535)

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.

Author: Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN-10: 0399545530
ISBN-13: 9780399545535
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.60h x 9.30w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.9
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 514382 / Year We Learned to Fly

Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/15/2021
Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 58
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2022 pg. 103
Shelf Awareness 01/18/2022
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2022
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2022
School Library Journal 02/04/2022 pg. 1
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2022 - Superior,Well Above Average