Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children to let them know that they can make a difference in today's world.

Author: Marian Wright Edelman
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 112
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 11.28h x 8.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780060280512
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 42
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2005 pg. 42
Booklist 11/01/2005 pg. 49
Ebony 05/01/2006 pg. 31

About the Author
Edelman, Marian Wright: -

Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C., and have three children and four grandchildren.

Moser, Barry: -

Barry Moser is the prizewinning illustrator and designer of more than three hundred books for children and adults. He is widely celebrated for his dramatic wood engravings for the only twentieth-century edition of the entire King James Bible illustrated by a single artist. He lives in western Massachusetts.