She graduated from Brandeis University and became a junior high school music teacher. She studied the piano and attended the Performing Arts High School in New York City. Her father was a musical arranger and her mother a singer. Her first crossover book for young adults and adults, it was written to inspire a wider public with the stories of the heroic resisters and the defiance of countless numbers of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.īorn in New York City, she lived in a home surrounded by music. 2012) her most ambitious project to date has been a five-year journey. Juanita Johnson and Grade 4 studentsĪt (CS 21) Crispus Attucks School, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NYīEYOND COURAGE: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust (Candlewick Press, Sept. She has been a featured author at the National Portrait Gallery, National Book Festival, the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the White House.ĭoreen Rappaport with Ms. – A dynamic writer-teacher-storyteller in the classroom, she is a frequent speaker at state and national educational conferences, universities, libraries, historical societies, book fairs, and community centers. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller and the Statue of Liberty. Her books have received critical acclaim and awards for her unique ability to combine historical facts with intimate storytelling, and for finding ‘new ways to present the lives of well-known heroes‚’ like Martin Luther King, Jr., John F.
King's powerful ideas of love and freedom, and the words he used to sound the call for equality.Doreen Rappaport is an award-winning author of children’s books known to educators, parents, children and young adult readers for forty-eight fiction and non-fiction books that celebrate multiculturalism, the retelling of folktales and myths, history, the lives of world leaders and the stories of those she calls ‘not-yet-celebrated.’ King's own speeches and letters enlarge the story, allowing readers to fully appreciate the impact of his immortal words. The illustrations in this award-winning book have an openness that draws readers in, as the images seem almost to be lit from within. King's message of racial tolerance and togetherness could not be silenced by threats of jail, violence, or even death.
Politicians, policemen, and judges ordered him to stop, but Dr.
He talked, prayed, and marched with his community. Words like freedom, together, peace, and love.Īnd that's just what he did. He knew that when he grew up he wanted to use big words like the ones he read in the Bible and the ones his father preached. When Martin Luther King was young, he was surrounded by small, hurtful words.
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