~ Oversized Hardcover

~ Winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children - 2019

There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you . . . 

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create The Day You Begin, a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

Featuring lyrical text and dazzling art, The Day You Begin celebrates the bravery it takes to go forth even when you fell like an outsider, reminding its readers that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our story, others will be happy to meet us halfway.