Sweet, Sweet Memory, Jacqueline Woodson
Sweet, Sweet Memory, Jacqueline Woodson
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Sweet, Sweet Memory

Author: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrator: Jacqueline Woodson

Unabridged: 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2026

Synopsis

Jacqueline Woodson’s evocative story about the power of sharing memories.

The earth changes, Sarah’s grandpa always said as they worked together in his garden. Like us, some part of it never dies. Everything and everyone goes on and on.

Now that Grandpa’s gone, though, it’s hard for Sarah to imagine “on and on” without him. But when loved ones gather to share stories of Grandpa, she begins to understand how much he meant to so many people. And when the harvest comes in and family and friends gather for a sunset supper, they make sweet new memories, reminding Sarah that everything and everyone truly does go on and on.

About The Author

Jacqueline Woodson (JacquelineWoodson.com) received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2022 Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, and was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and an NAACP Image Award. Her dozens of books for young readers include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me, Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster, and the picture book Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.Tonya Engel (TonyaEngelArt.com) also illustrated Yaya and the Sea (by Karen Good Marable), Because Claudette (by Tracey Baptiste), My Hair Is Magic (by M. L. Marroquin), Rise! (by Bethany Hegedus), and Beacon of Hope: The Life of Barack Obama (by Doreen Rappaport). She has had studios in New York, Paris, Houston, Spain, and Austin, where she lives now.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on October 27, 2020

This books is a great way to teach children about grieving the death of a loved one. In this specific story, a young girl grieves the death of her grandfather. Unfortunately, death is something most children experience with friends or family before adulthood. The story does a great job of demonstrat......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn on December 11, 2017

A great story that can be used to help families cope with the loss of a loved one. Throughout this story, Sarah and her grandmother strive to remember happy thoughts about her departed grandfather.......more

Goodreads review by Tyne on December 07, 2017

Sarah’s grandfather was a gardener. When he dies, he leaves behind his beliefs about the world and a harvest to help her remember him and know that the circle of life goes on and on.......more

Goodreads review by Jason on December 01, 2015

Jacqueline Woodson's Sweet, Sweet Memory is a children's fiction picture book about a young girl who is facing life for the first time without her grandfather. The story begins with the child dressing, putting on a white dress with angel sleeves that her grandmother has made for her. This little Afr......more

Goodreads review by Amber on September 26, 2008

This is a bibliotherapy book that helps children understand death and is age appropriate for kindergarteners through third graders. Sarah is struggling with the reality of her deceased grandpa and remembers things that her grandfather said to her. Her grandpa said that the earth lives and it grows a......more

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