I put off reading this one until today. Honestly, I get lost in Kadir Nelson's work. It's luminous and powerful and the perfect complement to one of the most luminous and powerful speeches of the 20th century. I never get tired of reading/ hearing that speech and I never tire of viewing Nelson's art. A must purchase for all school libraries. You may think you have enough MLK books; but you don't. Your collection is not complete without this one.

I'd love to see the Dillon's edition. Nelson's would be good, too. If you're buying one of these, be careful... some are abridged, some are mis-catalogued....If you do read it, please check the specific entry to make sure ISBN and other info. matches. And if you have librarian status, please fix errors... and if you don't, send a PM to me with all the data. Thanks!

While we do not celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Canada, the sentiments that MLK evoked in many of his speeches and actions are at the heart of the Canadian spirit. I read this version of the famous “I have a dream...” speech because someone close to me ask if I would. I am so very pleased that I took the time to read and absorb everything that is in it. This book offers some powerfully illustrated pages with an abridged version of the speech, as well as a full text copy at the back, both...

Until I've read this speech in its entirety I didn't know that before the mesmerizing I Have a Dream I Have a Dream and Let Freedom Ring Let Freedom Ring passages here Martin Luther King Jr. had used some similes, likening the Negro then to someone cashing a check, or collecting a debt under a promissory note which is the American constitution. This is also perhaps where President Obama patterned his Yes We Can Yes We Can inaugural speech.There is, indeed, a strong emotional pull on speeches tha...

Celebrating MLK Day by reading this illustrated version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech. A quick read, but inspiring and moving. Reading this speech makes me wonder what all these people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in DC so many years ago felt when I get goosebumps reading it now. Reading it today so many parts of it still ring true, which still remind us “the fierce urgency of now.” “Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy…Now is the time to lift our nation...

His words, taken on their own, give me chills and bring tears to my eyes. But seeing Dr. King's beloved speech coupled with the beautiful paintings of Kadir Nelson is absolutely breathtaking. A must have for every classroom, school library, and personal collection.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." ...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.This is a beautiful book aimed at kids. It contains important excerpts from that 16' speech in Washington DC on August 28, 1963. The chosen words on great a...

I shared this book with a group of kids at the recent book fair and they haven't stopped bugging me about readying this book for checkout. It's a beautiful book. Kadir Nelson, with his starkly realistic paintings, brings us up close to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech. Mesmerizing.

Gorgeous, and Noah was super into the illustrations, and I only cried twice!

In 2019, I have noticed that my reading has had a bent toward civil rights. I have read about prominent African Americans including Condoleezza Rice and her parents, Carlotta Walls LaNier, and Ernie Banks. I have also read accounts of the 1960s, a turning point decade in American history where African Americans asserted themselves in their ongoing quest to achieve equal civil rights. I had not read a quality biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, yet, with my yearly reading sch...

It was great to re-read my anniversary edition today. Such a simple speech, but so powerful, and there is much more to it then just the I Have a Dream section that is often quoted.And this year when Martin Luther King Jr Day falls on his actual birthday, I think I’ll start Black History Month early, similar to leap year, to make up for all those days that are shorted every other February. #BlackHistoryMonth#DiversityMonday#WeNeedDiverseBooks#OwnVoicesBecause we can✊

First time actually reading the entire speech...so beautiful! I couldn't help but feel sad, that despite the progress that has been made, there is still so far to go.

This picture book was amazing and came with an audio CD of Martin giving his "I have a dream" speech. My students loved this book. Even my pessimistic student shared how he loved everything about this book. This story splits the speech into separate pages and has beautiful illustrations into. It made it easy for students to understand his large and strong vocabulary.I suggest everyone to read this book to their children, students, etc :)

Hmmmm... I wonder who Ghost Wrote almost all of King's speeches??

This book is gorgeous - the illustrations are so well done and the speech well shortened to go with them. And as I read the full speech at the end, it hit me that I’ve never read or heard it in its entirety. I suppose that’s not terribly surprising - I’m not American and I’ve never taken an American history course. It’s funny sometimes how much I know about America and also how much I don’t. I read this to Kait because of the holiday coming up - it was a bit too advanced for her, but she liked t...

"...When we allow freedom to ring--when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black‌ men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last."We all have this dream, right? To live in a fair world. I think situation is much better than

This was the first time I actually read Dr. King's speech. The main part of the book was short clips of the speech with illustrations. The last two pages were the full speech, in smaller print. It is such a powerful speech and I think everyone should read it all the way through at least once.

Ahh yes, I remember this book. I got it when it first came out in '97, it was the biggest (in terms of length/size) I owned as it was made in the style of books you put on your living room table. The book contains the full speech supplemented by specially commissioned pictures that were interpreting a quotation from the speech. At the end was a commentary on the pictures, in which we are told what the artists were trying to capture.As for the actual speech, I do not know what more to add to the

I didn't really read this Kindle book but read the text online after watching the speech on YouTube. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my heroes, and it seemed appropriate to listen & read his words today in honor of his memory on MLK day. Sadly, so much is still apposite 50+ years later. This passage in particular struck me:"We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality."In the intervening years, this aspect of racism doesn't seem to

can't say nothing . i hope he now feels that his dream came true