Martin Rising: Requiem For a King by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney
Published by Scholastic Press on January 2nd 2018
ISBN: 0545702534
Pages: 128
Format: Chapter Book Nonfiction
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Brian Pinkney’s watercolor illustrations set the tone for the last days of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and author Andrea Davis Pinkney tells the story through several poems. Many were powerful and heart wrenching and the watercolors captured these shifts. I wasn’t a big fan of the Chicken Little analogy that was used even after I read the Author’s Note section that explains why Andrea used Chicken Little. This would work well for a classroom studying Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life

For grades 5 and up, Mary Lehmer, Freeport Community Library, Freeport, ME