Listen To My Dream - Softcover

Pearl, Debi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098197371X ISBN 13: 9780981973715

Publisher: No Greater Joy Ministries, 2009

Synopsis

Life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. written and illustrated by Michael and Debi Pearl.

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About the Author

Debi and her husband Michael Pearl started and manage the No Greater Joy Ministries. NGJ is a non-profit organization to the advancement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
through their book and magazine ministry. They have been married since 1971 and published their first book in 1994. Between them, they have authored 15 books
and 8 booklets, which combined, have sold millions of books. They have been published in to 30 languages around the world. NGJ publishes a 32 page
bi-monthly magazine with a circulation of over 50,000.

Review

The book Listen To My Dream, a children's story about Martin Luther King, Jr, was published in December, 2009. The publisher is Pearl Books, LLC. The book covers the life of King from childhood through his death in 1968 and is written as a narrative poem. It opens with King asking his mother why he was black and wasn't treated like others. Later, his teacher encouraged him to dream big dreams to help others. He set his mind to do that very thing. As a 'colored man' (a term for Negroes at the time), he didn't have the same privileges in the south that whites had. Then when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person and was arrested, King organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system until blacks were treated the same as others. Eventually in 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that such discrimination was against the law. The children's part of the book is written as a poem, emphasizing the importance of setting goals and sticking to them. It ends after King's funeral following his murder on April 4, 1968. Listen To My Dream is a 40 page book written in two parts. The first poetic part, as mentioned above, outlines King's life and influence in bringing about racial equality. Part two gives more details about the civil rights movement and how King influenced it; this part is written as a narrative and has no pictures. Debi and Michael Pearl drew all the illustrations for the first part of the book. At times the poem only hints at something and then, a detail is given on the picture. An example of this is the statement that it was his teacher, Miss Lemon from Oglethorpe Elementary who prodded him on to have a dream and believe in it. The focus of the book Listen To My Dream is on King's part in bringing about civil rights. In that Martin Luther King should be recognized and remembered. --EzineArticles Susannah Singer

About this edition

• Publisher: No Greater Joy Ministries
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 098197371X
• ISBN 13: 9780981973715
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40