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| Listen To My Dream by Debi Pearl |
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Eric Davis |
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The book Listen To My Dream, a children’s story about Martin Luther King, Jr, was published in December, 2009. It is published by Pearl Books, LLC.
The book covers the life of King from childhood through his death in 1968 and is written as a narrative poem. It opens as he asks his mother why he was born with darker skin and was not treated as others were. Later in school his teacher told him to hold his head high and dream big. He set his mind to do that very thing.
As a ‘colored man’ (a term for Negroes at the time), he didn’t have the same privileges in the south that whites had. Thus, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her front bus seat for a white person, King organized a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system until colored people were treated equally. Eventually in 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that such discrimination was against the law.
The children’s part of the book is written as a poem, emphasizing the importance of setting goals and sticking to them. This portion ends following King’s murder on April 4, 1968 and the funeral that followed.
The 40 page soft covered book is written in two parts. The first poetic part, as mentioned above, outlines King’s life and influence in bringing about racial equality. Part two gives more details about the civil rights movement and how King influenced it; this part is written as a narrative and has no pictures.
Debi and Michael Pearl drew all the illustrations for the first part of the book. In places where the poem hints at influences in King’s life, a brief detail is given. For example, the one who encouraged him to dream big was his teacher, Miss Lemon, from Oglethorpe Elementary.
Listen To My Dream does a good job of focusing on King’s work to eliminate legal discrimination. In this he is certainly worthy of recognition. Please visit the book's website at http://www.listentomydreambook.com/ to find out more about the book. For more about the author, visit http://www.debipearl.com/. |
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