The Day You Begin

<b><b>A #1<i> NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER!<br><br><b>Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show <i>Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices</i>!</b></b><br><br>National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.</b><br><br><i> There will be times when you walk into a room</i><br><i> and no one there is quite like you.</i><br><br>There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it''s how you look or talk, or where you''re from; maybe it''s what you eat, or something just as random. It''s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. <br><br>Jacqueline Woodson''s lyrical text and Rafael López''s dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And tha