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by Jacqueline Woodson · Nancy Paulsen Books · tapa dura · 32 pages
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En 'Coming on Home Soon', Ada Ruth y su abuela esperan ansiosamente el regreso de su madre, quien ha tenido que irse a trabajar a Chicago durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A medida que el invierno se instala, Ada Ruth y su abuela encuentran consuelo en su mutua compañía y en la llegada de un gatito callejero. Sin embargo, nada puede llenar el vacío que dejó la madre. Cada día, aguardan con esperanza la carta que anuncie su pronto regreso a casa. Esta conmovedora historia resalta la importancia de la familia y la esperanza en tiempos difíciles.
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.
