I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children

by Marian Wright Edelman, Barry Moser (Illustrator)

Overview

Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children to let them know that they can make a difference in today's world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060280512
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	11.02(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, DC, and have three children and four grandchildren.

Barry Moser is the prizewinning illustrator and designer of more than three hundred books for children and adults. He is widely celebrated for his dramatic wood engravings for the only twentieth-century edition of the entire King James Bible illustrated by a single artist. He lives in western Massachusetts.

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I Can Make a Difference

A Treasury to Inspire Our Children

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By Marian Edelman

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Copyright © 2005 Marian Edelman
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0060280514

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A Love Poem to Every Special Child

Black and Brown girl dark of hue with kinky or curly hair

White child with straight hair and freckles too

God painted your skin and curled and straightened your hair just for you.

God is love and you are God's beloved.

Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, and White child created to look just like you,

God rejoices and is glad in you.

God is love and you are God's beloved.

Special child who sees and discerns without the eyes and ears and speech the rest of us need who navigates without the legs ordinary people require and manages without the hands on which other mortals depend.

God is love and you are God's beloved.

Weary child of the night and castaway of the streets afraid and abused in need of safe haven and home to rest and to nest.

God is love and you are God's beloved.

Child of slow mind, innocent of worldly wiles and the will to harm others, freed of devious thoughts.

God is love and you are God's beloved.

Child of poverty unburdened by the chains of things and greed which imprison the haves too muches.

God came in your disguise to save us all.

God is love and you are God's beloved.

-- Marian Wright Edelman

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