I Have a Dream
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060236441 (0060236442)
Publish date: July 1st 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
by Martin Luther King, Jr. The illustrations are fantastic and wonderfully complementary to the text. I especially enjoyed the artists' commentary on each painting in the back of the book.
Very inspirational.
Nelson took on an ambitious project, and made some fine choices. The cinematic techniques are what strikes me most. As I read I moved back and forth between establishing wide shots, medium range shots, and close-ups. Some of the close ups and wide shots are extreme. The cover and the pages with the ...
Kadir Nelson's beautiful paintings illustrate the high points of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous I have a Dream speech. The combination of words and pictures help convey some of the power of Dr. King's words for an audience who wasn't alive to hear them originally.
I shared this book with a group of kids at the recent book fair and they haven't stopped bugging me about readying this book for checkout. It's a beautiful book. Kadir Nelson, with his starkly realistic paintings, brings us up close to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech. Mesmer...
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