The Other Side (children's book)

The Other Side

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrator	E. B. Lewis
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print
Pages	32 pages
ISBN	978-0-399-23116-2
OCLC	42080178
Dewey Decimal	[E] 21
LC Class	PZ7.W868 Th 2001

The Other Side is a children's picture book written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis, published in 2001 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Summary

The narrator and protagonist of the story is Clover, a young African-American girl. She lives beside a fence which segregates her town. Her mother instructs her never to climb over to the other side. Then one summer, she notices a white girl on the other side of the fence. The girl seems to be very lonely and is even outside when it is raining.

Clover decides to talk to the girl on the other side of the fence. Both girls are not allowed to cross the fence, so they simply decide to sit on the fence together. First, Clover's friends will not let Annie, the girl from the other side, play with them but then all of the girls realize that the fence (a symbol for segregation) should not be there.

Awards

ALA Notable
SLJ Best Book
Booklist Editor’s Choice
2001 Time of Wonder Award
IRA Teacher’s Choices 2002
2004 Louisiana Young Reader’s Choice Award (Honor)
California Young Reader Medal Nominee
2003-2004 South Carolina Book Award Nominee

The works of Jacqueline Woodson

Picture books	Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Birthday (1990) We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past (1997) Sweet, Sweet Memory (2000) The Other Side (2001) Visiting Day (2002) Our Gracie Aunt (2002) Coming on Home Soon (2004) Show Way (2005)

Young adult books	Last Summer with Maizon (1990) The Dear One (1992) Maizon at Blue Hill (1992) Between Madison and Palmetto (1993) Book Chase (1994) I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1994) From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (1995) The House You Pass on the Way (1997) If You Come Softly (1998) Lena (1998) Miracle's Boys (2000) Hush (2002) Locomotion (2003) Behind You (2004) Soonie (2005) Feathers (2007) After Tupac and D Foster (2008) Peace, Locomotion (2009) Brown Girl Dreaming (2014)

Adult books	Autobiography of a Family Photo (1994)

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