This is my Dream! By Langston Hughes

Hughes, Langston. This Is My Dream! illustrated by Daniel Miyares. 32p.2017. Random House. ISBN 97803995550195
Ages (3 and up)
Illustrations based on the poem "DreamVariation" by Langston Hughes,  Miyares contrast the two parts of the poem by showing inequality and hope. In the first half of the poem, inequality is shown with darker colors; greys, browns, and dull tone to the images.  The reader is also shown that this isn't a present day, this still the time of segregation, which is represented by the whites only and colored only water fountains. The second half of the poem shows hope, the pictures are much brighter and full of life, with children being united. A great poem to introduce inequality and injustice to younger children.
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