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“Nobody can ever cuff your beautiful and brilliant mind”

I love the character design in this book! The characters have so much personality and are so cute.

This book has beautiful use of color and endearing character design (with soft shapes, no harsh lines, and harmonious color palettes). It had multiple important messages regarding emotional well-being, slavery, and the Black history of resilience. It is inspired by The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton.

“ .. that we didn‘t have to be stuck anywhere anymore”

I would use this book in my classroom to educate students about thinking differently or outside the box. I think this book would also be good to highlight during Black history month.

The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson, 2022. This was a story of 2 young African American children who “learn to fly“ when they were bored one day. The children are always the vocal point and main characters, they are composed of simple designs with bright colors. This story also references times of slavery within the words and the drawings. The illustrator captures the past in dark colors but also warm colors when they “learned to fly”

“So our people learned to fly, she said“

“So like the people who came before us, we lifted our arms even higher, closed our eyes even tighter, breathed in even deeper, and flew the ways we'd always known how to“

I would use this book in my classroom to help my students think outside the box. I think this book would also be good to highlight during Black history month.

I would use this book in my classroom to help my students think outside the box. I think this book would also be good to highlight during Black history month.

Picture Book- The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson was written in 2022. This was a story of 2 young children who “learn to fly“ when they were bored one day. The children are always the vocal point, they are composed of simple designs with bright colors. This story also references times of slavery within the words and the drawings. The illustrator captures the past in dark colors but also warm colors when they “learned to fly“.

The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson was written in 2022. This was a story of 2 young African American children who “learn to fly“ when they were bored one day. The children are always the vocal point, they are composed of simple designs with bright colors. This story also references times of slavery within the words and the drawings. The illustrator captures the past in dark colors but also warm colors when they “learned to fly“.

“Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing.“

I would use this book in my classroom to help my students think outside the box. I think this book would also be good to highlight during Black history month.

The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson was written in 2022. This was a story of 2 young African American children who “learn to fly“ when they were bored one day. The children are always the vocal point, they are composed of simple designs with bright colors. This story also references times of slavery within the words and the drawings. The illustrator captures the past in dark colors but also warm colors when they “learned to fly“.

“…nobody can ever cuff your beautiful and brilliant mind.”

I like the message in this book that someone, somewhere has gone through what you‘re dealing with, and that they figured it out. It is encouraging. I also love the power of imagination.

Published 2022. In this story, a grandmother shares a valuable skill with her grandchildren. She tells them how they can close their eyes, lift their arms, and use their imaginations to fly away. They learn to use their imaginations and to realize that before them, someone has experienced and figured out what they are going through. The illustrations are colorful and embody imagination.

Date Read: 8-31-22
Name of Award (if applicable): 2020 Schneider Family Book Award
Purpose of Award (if applicable): This award is that is for an author or illustrator for showing the expression of disability that a child may experience
Title of Book : The Year We Learned to Fly
Author of Book: Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrator (if applicable): Rafael Lòpez
Date of Publication: January 4, 2022

This is a very current picture book that brings hope to how our future is changing day by day. The girl in the story is inspired by her grandmother to be free and live out her dreams. The story is very uplifting and influences readers to be who they want to be and not let people or things hold them back. I would definitely use this in my classroom!

Summary: Two siblings who live in the city and are stuck inside and they use their imagination to cure their boredom. Their grandmother talks about the importance of freedom to them.
Awards won: Schneider Family Book Award
Purpose of Award: Book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrator: Rafael López
Date of publication: 2022
Genre: Picture Book

A story about intergeneration and freedom of a young girl and her family. Her and her brother live in an apartment building and one day they want to play outside but can't because of the rain. They venture out and use their big and wild imaginations to escape the boredom of being inside and the rainy weather. Together they can imagine anything and be anything they want if they put their minds to it.

The Year We Learned to Fly is a children‘s picture book by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by Rafael Lopez won the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award and was published on January 4th, 2022. It is a The book is about two siblings who live in the city and are bored. They use their imagination to escape their boredom with their imagination. The book starts off with their grandmother emphasizing the importance of freedom.

Illustrated by: Rafael Lopez
Publication: January 4th, 2022
Summary: This book is about two siblings who live in the city and are bored. They use their imagination to escape their boredom with their imagination. The book starts off with their grandmother emphasizing the importance of freedom.

Beautiful in every single way - the words, the illustrations, the tone, the message....everything!

"Sometimes the first step towards change is closing our eyes, taking a breath, and imagining a different way." - from the author's note. ❤

“Sometimes the first step toward change is closing your eyes, taking a breath, and imagining a different way.”
Loved the story and illustrations, especially that they‘re reading Woodson‘s The Day You Begin!

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