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As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
40 pp.
| Knopf |
May, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-375-83335-9$16.99
|
LibraryISBN 978-0-375-93335-6$19.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Raul Colón.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, a rabbi born in Eastern Europe, becomes a stalwart friend to Martin Luther King Jr. as the Baptist preacher urges America toward new standards of equality and freedom. In this story, readers first meet King as a young boy, then Heschel; their shared story later unfolds. The swirling, textured colored-pencil and watercolor illustrations.