Gwendolyn Brooks

A new edition of a collection of poems that celebrate childhood in the Bronzeville section of Chicago. This edition features colorful new illustrations.

A life-affirming poem, illustrated for the first time, intends to foster opportunity and acceptance for all the people and children of the world. Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world, the story of shared humanity, and the many different people in it. She speaks to all children of the world in this moving poem about acceptance, stressing that every child should have the opportunity for a shining future and offering hope for a better tomorrow....