Listen To My Dream
9780981973715
40 pages
No Greater Joy Ministries
Overview
Every once in a while, down through the pages of time, the life and works of one man forever changes the lives of millions of people. Martin Luther King, Jr. was such a man. Debi explains her motivation for writing Listen To My Dream: "I remember the day I helped black soldiers, soldiers who had given their young bodies for
their nation, courageous men from places like California and Washington
state, into my car and took them for a short ride to the local dairy bar
for a long-anticipated ice cream cone. For months they had languished
in the hospital, living for any opportunity to get out. I remember the
profound hurt I saw in their eyes when they saw hanging from the shop s
two front windows, signs they had never before seen: Whites Only. I had grown up with it; it was just the way things were. But through
their eyes I saw ugliness and hate. I felt angry stares from the nearby
cars, heard unknown voices whispering, What's a white girl doing here
with a Negro in the front seat? They didn't know that the soldier
couldn't get out because he lost his legs fighting a war for them. What I
saw through their eyes that day made me so ashamed." In rhythmic manner, Debi presents Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream. She begins with the dream of a boy, the son of a preacher and a
teacher born at a time when for many, dreams were just that: dreams with
little or no hope of being realized. She continues as he grows,
refusing to accept that and not only dreamed but labored to make that
dream a reality. Throughout his life he shares his dream with others,
inviting them to also dream and join him in his labors. Although in life
he only reached the mountaintop his dream lives on and has become a
reality for many over the years. Listen To My Dream will captivate readers young and old with its engaging storytelling and
colorful artwork. Follow the life of the young boy that would become Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. as he dreams, shares his dream and then lives
and gives his life to make that dream a reality for others. This book
will remind those who may have lived so long as to have forgotten the
dream and will introduce the dream to a generation that has benefited
from the dream without even knowing of it. The book is being reprinted by arrangement with The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., c/o Writers House as agent for the
proprietor New York, NY. Copyright 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr;
copyright renewed 1991 Coretta Scott King. 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. â Susannah Singer, EzineArticles
Author Bio
Debi Pearl was raised in Memphis, TN, in good homes, by parents who were faithful to point her to God. As a teen Debi was involved in witnessing, ministering to the sick and wounded veterans, and serving in hospitals. Debi along with her husband Michael, write on child training and family relationships. Independently, Debi has written a "Help Meet" series of books for both single and married women along with the Yell and Tell books which are a warning for children against sexual predators.
