Show Way is a 2005 children's picture book by American author Jacqueline Woodson with illustrations by Hudson Talbott.

Show Way was a John Newbery Medal Honor Book in 2006 and was featured in Reading Rainbow that same year in the series finale.

When Soonie's great-grandmother made the quilts, the pieces signified roads, moons, and stars to follow, a way to escape their slavery.

Mathis Soonie's grandmother married a slave, who died before meeting his baby girl, a girl-child born free in 1863.

They no longer needed the secret trail to the north, but rather they lived well off of the money those quilts brought in, her own show way.

She had two daughters named Caroline and Ann, these two girls walked in a line to change the laws that kept black and white people living separate.

"[4] Mary N. Oluonye of School Library Journal stated that Show Way is "An outstanding tribute, perfectly executed in terms of text, design, and illustration.