I hadn't meant to tell you this

I hadn't meant to tell you this by Jacqueline Woodson is a 1994 Society & Culture book written by TED speaker Jacqueline Woodson, paired here with the talk they gave.

The pairing

  • Paired talk: "What reading slowly taught me about writing" (2019), 3.2M views on TED.com
  • Timing: Published 25 years before the talk.
  • In the catalogue: The 1st of 10 books by Jacqueline Woodson on Books Worth Reading (1994–2018), by publication year.
  • Edition: Speak, 1994 · 115 pages

The paired TED talk

What reading slowly taught me about writing (2019), the TED talk by Jacqueline Woodson.

From the publisher

Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.

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