NEW YORK – The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 15-year-old granddaughter is working on a storybook tribute to the late civil rights leader and his wife Coretta Scott King. Yolanda Renee King’s We Dream a World, illustrated by award-winning artist Nicole Tadgell, will be released by Scholastic on January 2nd.
“I am pleased to share this love letter in his honor. This book will make every child rediscover my grandparents’ dream,” said Yolanda Renee King, herself a social justice advocate, in a statement Friday.
The book’s publication date falls just before Martin Luther King’s 95th birthday. He was murdered in 1968, 40 years before his granddaughter was born.
Scholastic describes the book as a “call to unity and equality”.
The editor says, “The book’s narrative expresses Yolanda’s deep love for her grandparents while speaking to children around the world about their hopes for a new future, as expressed in her call-and-response affirmation that leads to thunderous participation in their public speeches and addresses: “Spread it on! Have you heard? We will be a new generation!”
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