We Are Shining

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator) and Gilchrist (Illustrator)

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From Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist comes We Are Shining. Marking the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks, this powerful picture book is a celebration of the diversity of our world. This life-affirming poem is now illustrated for the very first time, with stunning, vibrant images.

A story of our shared humanity, Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world and the many different people in it. Brooks speaks to all children of the world in this moving poem about acceptance, stressing that every child should have the opportunity for a shining future and offering hope for a better tomorrow.

  • ISBN10 0062570668
  • ISBN13 9780062570666
  • Publish Date 30 May 2017
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 31 January 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperCollins