Woodson’s interest in cultural differences and how people search for meaning in the world led her to create the deaf character Sean in her novel Feathers.
Jacqueline Woodson tries to bring her readers into the wider world and inspire them to start asking questions like “What would I do in this situation?”
Woodson doesn’t set out to be “controversial”—she writes what she calls “realistic fiction” that can help young people discover the richness of the real world.
Rudine Sims Bishop uses “Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors” as an analogy to discuss the importance of diversity in books and the authors who write them.
