The Day You Begin is a beautiful book about how telling your own story, your life experience, can free you to be yourself. The author, Jacqueline Woodson, along with the illustrator, Rafael Lopez, team up to create a gorgeous, poetic story full of children from diverse backgrounds. One child is worried she looks different than everybody, another child is worried about how his home language changes how he speaks, another child is concerned that the food in her lunchbox is too unique and still another child believes he is never going to have a friend on the playground. The Day You Begin encourages children to be themselves, find their voice and tell their story. It is in this bravery, this opening up and being vulnerably themselves, that they will begin.
The Day You Begin is an all ages book. For the younger child, it can be used to teach about differences, inclusion and social/emotional topics. For older students it can be used as a companion piece to Jacqueline Woodson's book Brown Girl Dreaming, as The Day You Begin was inspired from a poem in that award winning book. Students and adults of all ages will be able to connect with the worries, the hesitation, and the joy in The Day You Begin.
The Day You Begin read aloud by Brightly Storytime
The Day You Begin book trailer
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