In a word, this book is POWERFUL.

I can't wait to read it with my students on Marin Luther King Jr. Day this coming year.

This book focuses on the Memphis Sanitation Worker's Strike and Martin's involvement with that movement in the last couple of months of his life. This poetic requiem ties in the childhood nursery rhyme of Henny Penny playing the role of fate, questioning if Martin foresaw his end and what happens to a movement when the "sky falls".

Simply beautiful. The artwork and imagery of Coretta marching with her children on the day before Martin's funeral had me in tears. I'm sure I'll cry reading it to my students too, but it will be worth every tear.

Be sure not to miss the author's and illustrator's notes at the back of the book, as well as a brief history of the Sanitation Worker's movement.

This would be perfect for a unit on poetry, a literature circle study, or a classroom read aloud. There are SO many teaching tools in these poems and the possibilities are truly endless.