As a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to
Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech and
the movement that it galvanized.
Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for
Children
Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List
Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March
on Washington. But there's little on his legendary speech and how he
came to write it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching
was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing
where to end. It's terrible to be circling up there without a place to
land.
Finding this place to land was what Martin Luther King, Jr. struggled
with, alongside advisors and fellow speech writers, in the Willard Hotel
the night before the March on Washington, where he gave his historic I
Have a Dream speech. But those famous words were never intended to be
heard on that day, not even written down for that day, not even once.
Barry Wittenstein teams up with legendary illustrator Jerry Pinkney to
tell the story of how, against all odds, Martin found his place to land.
An ALA Notable Children's Book
A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title
Nominated for an NAACP Image Award
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
A Booklist Editors' Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews,
and School Library Journal
Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase
