by Jacqueline Woodson · Nancy Paulsen Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780399237485
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«Coming on Home Soon» is a children's picture book by Jacqueline Woodson, published by Nancy Paulsen Books in hardback (32 pages, in English).
During World War II, Ada Ruth stays with her grandmother while her mother leaves to work in Chicago. The two keep their daily routine, keep each other company, and take in a stray kitten, but nothing fills the void of absence. Every day they wait for a letter announcing her mother's return.
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis, originally published in 2004 and recognized with the Caldecott Honor in 2005.
Recommended for early readers aged 5 to 8, especially for those seeking family stories set in the past.
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She accepted the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
