I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children

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Harper Collins, Nov 1, 2005 - 112 pages
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Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children to let them know that they can make a difference in today's world.

 

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Contents

Introduction
5
can make a difference by aiming high and holding on to my ideals
21
can make a difference by being honest and telling the truth 55
35
can make a difference by being determined and resourceful
51
can make a difference by working together with others
67
can make a difference by being nonviolent and working for peace
85
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About the author (2005)

Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C., and have three children and four grandchildren.

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TitleI Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children
AuthorMarian Wright Edelman
Illustrated byBarry Moser
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarper Collins, 2005
ISBN0060280514, 9780060280512
Length112 pages
  
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