Recommended Readings for Kids

Dear Dr. King: Letters from Today’s Children to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Colbert, Jan, Ernest C. Withers, and Roy Cajero, eds.
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1998.

 

 

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Farris, Christine King.
New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.

 

 

My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Farris, Christine King.
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003.

 

 

 A Sweet Smell of Roses
Johnson, Angela.
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005.

 

My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
King, Martin Luther III.
New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. 

 

 

 

Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Pickney, Andrea Davis. 
New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2000.

 

Nobody Gonna Turn Me ’Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Rappaport, Doreen.
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006.

 

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Weatherford, Carole Boston.
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2005.