Jacqueline Woodson, THE YEAR WE LEARNED TO FLY

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Jacqueline Woodson joins Zibby to talk about her latest picture book, The Year We Learned to Fly. Although the book is a retelling of an African American folk tale that captures what it means to escape through your imagination rather than through your body, Jacqueline shares how she began writing it before the pandemic began and the story has taken on so much more meaning as a result of Covid. Jacqueline also tells Zibby about when she knew she wanted to be a writer, what it has been like to meet a number of her earliest readers as adults, and which books she currently loves.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy. My other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. And, of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:41.0	Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you all had a great break. I wanted to let you know about something
0:46.1	that I've been talking a lot about on social media at Zibby Owens, which is the hashtag 22 and 22
0:52.0	challenge. We are at Zibby Books. We are encouraging everybody, like all of you,
0:58.5	to visit 22 bookstores in 2022. And we're going to provide a whole series of incentives for every
1:04.9	five visits, and you'll be entered to win a $500 shopping spree, and you'll get fun things like
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1:17.5	We're really, really excited about it. If you want to join, sign up, you just go to 22in22.net.
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1:46.2	bookstores, and it'll be really fun and exciting. So here's to a wonderful 2022. I'm so excited
1:52.9	that you're listening to my podcast and doing all the fun things that I have been trying to
1:58.3	bring into the world. So here we go, 2022. Hashtag 22 and 22.
2:03.9	Jacqueline Woodson is the author of the children's book, The Year We Learned to Fly.
2:09.0	Jacqueline is the recipient of the 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Anderson Award,
2:14.6	the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literacy Award.
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