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My Dream of Martin Luther King (Dragonfly Books)

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Now in Dragonfly–from the acclaimed author of the Caldecott Honor Book Tar Beach comes a personal and captivating portrait of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith Ringgold had a dream about Martin Luther King. Simply narrated in her own voice, Ringgold–award-winning author of Tar Beach and Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky paints a vivid, powerful picture of King’s childhood and strong circle of relatives life, along side glimpses of prejudice, segregation, and protest. Her vision blurs dreamily into King’s adult life–from his circle of relatives, to protests of Rosa Parks’s arrest, even to his assassination: “This time we had come to mourn Martin Luther King’s death by trading in bags containing our prejudice, hate, lack of knowledge, violence, and fear for the slain hero’s dream. We emptied the bags onto a really perfect pile, and because the last bag used to be dumped, the pile exploded into a fire so bright that it lit up the whole world. There, emblazoned across the sky, were the words: EVERY GOOD THING STARTS WITH A DREAM.” Illustrated with Ringgold’s dramatic folk-up to date paintings, My Dream of Martin Luther King is without doubt one of the most creative, successful, accessible tributes to Martin Luther King for children that now we have seen. (Ages 4 to 8)

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