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

Marian Wright Edelman

Harper Collins, Nov 1, 2005 - Juvenile Fiction - 112 pages

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children
• Author: Marian Wright Edelman
• Illustrated by: Barry Moser
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2005
• ISBN: 0060280514, 9780060280512
• Length: 112 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / General