Synopses & Reviews
What started out as an assignment in a classroom has become one of the most moving and inspiring books about Dr. Martin Luther King and children's views of him today.
Today, children learn in school about Dr. King's assassination on April 4, 1968. Even three decades later, they must come to terms with the greatness of the man and the horror of this shocking event. In order to help children toward a more complete understanding, a Memphis schoolteacher and a Memphis parent of two school age children decided to encourage children to write to Dr. King with their thoughts. At first just a few letters came in but soon the idea caught the imaginations of countless teachers and parents. The result was more than a thousand submissions from elementary school children.