Book Description
for I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Kathleen Atkins Wilson
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
An illustrated edition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech during the March on Washington in 1963 has been divided into 15 sections, each one illustrated by award-winning artists. Artists' statements about their tributes following the speech offer insights about their art and their sense of this particular history. Their comments vary widely, as do their visual interpretations of one section of text. The artists are Ashley Bryan, Carole Byard, Floyd Cooper, Pat Cummings, Diane and Leo Dillon, Tom Feelings, George Ford, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Brian Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, James E. Ransome, Teréa Shaffer, and Kathleen Atkins Wilson. (Age 5-adult)
CCBC Choices 1997. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1997. Used with permission.