J. Patrick Lewis is the 2011 winner of the NCTE Award for
Excellence in Poetry for Children and is BMP's third Children's
Poet Laureate. He has written more than sixty books for children
and adults, including Face Bug (which is on the Texas Library
Association's Bluebonnet Award master list); If You Were a
Chocolate Mustache; Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles;
and Please Bury Me in the Library. He lives in Westerville, Ohio.
jpatricklewis.com.
George Ella Lyon is the author of 45 books, ranging from
poetry for children such as All the Water in the World (an ALA
Notable book) to picture books such as The Pirate of Kindergarten
to young adult novels such as her recent Holding On to Zoe to
fiction and poetry for adults. In fall 2014, she has one picture
book scheduled: What the Forest Knows (illustrated by August Hall,
Atheneum). She lives in Lexington, Kentucky. georgeellalyon.com.
* "Lewis and Lyon join forces for a fictionalized account of one of
the pivotal moments in US civil rights history. . . Through over 70
largely first-person poems, the poets rekindle the spirit of the
fight for racial equality in the United States with imagined voices
of young and old, black and white, educated and underprivileged,
supporters and detractors and drive home the volume's theme of
taking personal responsibility in helping this country 'steer
toward justice together.' . . . A powerful yet accessible guide to
'one day in 1963 [that] [b]elongs to every age.'" -Kirkus Reviews,
starred review
* "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called it 'the greatest
demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.' . . . Now
poets J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon have written their own
chapter in this collection of original poems that examine and
celebrate the occasion and its aftermath in a variety of voices
both real and imagined . . . From an perspective, however, the
march was history in the making and this collection is a fitting
memorial to it." -Booklist, starred review
"In this collection of 70 short poems, Lewis and Lyon introduce the
1963 March on Washington through the perspectives of those who took
part. . . This well-crafted introduction to the Civil Rights era
deserves a wide audience, as these poems, with their plain-spoken,
honest emotions, offer insight into the past, and inspiration to
continue the struggle." -School Library Journal
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