Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!
National Book Award
winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award
winner Rafael López 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 room
and 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 López’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.