National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.
There will be times when you walk into a roomand no one there is quite like you.
There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look or talk, or where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat, or something just as random. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.
Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael Lopez’s dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.
Thank you, Rafael, for joining me for a #cbadspotlight guest post interview today!
Rigoberto emerges |
At school, Rigoberto remembers his homeland |
Searching for Angelina |
Angelina Arrives |
Initial brainstorming for cover |
Thinking about how the design could wrap around |
Using substitution with typography and figure |
How will it all fit together? |
Communicating emotion with body position and expression |
Trying out all the angles |
Finished Cover Design with hand rendered type. |
Checking for consistency and flow of the story in progress |
The voice of every child makes a difference. |
a goal to read aloud a picture book every day of the school year, at any grade,
inspired by Donalyn Miller’s #bookaday.