I've seen the promised land the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Main Author: | Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014. |
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Other Authors: | Jenkins, Leonard (Illustrator) |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
HarperCollinsPublishers,
c2004.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Physical Description: |
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. |
ISBN: |
0060277033 0060277041 (lib. bdg.) |
Author Notes: |
He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) |