You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Robbins, Dean; Williams, Anastasia Magloire

• ISBN13: 9781338895117
• ISBN10: 1338895117
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-01-07
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Summary

Make way for Martin Luther King, Jr.!

It’s Martin Luther King, Jr., like you’ve never seen him before!

Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to a trailblazer of the civil rights movement. The fourth book in an exciting nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr. focuses on Martin's lifelong mission to ensure that African Americans gained their constitutional rights.

Anastasia Magloire Williams' spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and engaging back matter instructs readers on how to be more like Martin!

Author Biography

Dean Robbins is a journalist and the author of the children’s picture books Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, and Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote. His award-winning books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and have been praised in the New York Times and USA Today. Dean grew up idolizing Apollo astronauts and loved working with Alan Bean on The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon. Learn more at deanrobbins.net.

Anastasia Magloire Williams is an illustrator with a passion for storytelling she has nurtured since childhood. With a unique blend of graphic, dynamic, and painterly illustration, she enjoys bringing written tales to life and enchanting children and adults alike with her expressive lines, bold palettes, and eclectic approach to style. Using her extensive art education, her personal study and appreciation for animation, games, manga, editorial and fine art, graphic design and children's media, it is her goal to tell stories that are inspiring, educational, and imaginative.