Dream Day

Fifty years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.  What Martin Luther King Jr. said then still resonates with us now, 50 years later. We all have dreams of the world that we want to live in.

I wanted to share a book today that supports Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream.  I had several different options but decided to go with Somewhere Today A Book of Peace by Shelley Moore Thomas.

This book is simple enough to share with young children but also deep enough to share with older children.  It has a very rhythmic text and beautiful photographs which makes it perfect to read aloud. The book give different examples of kindness and peacemaking that can happen anywhere in our world.  Maybe somewhere today someone is planting a tree or maybe someone else is being a friend instead of fighting.  The simplicity in the actions is what makes the book so beautiful.

Peace isn't about grandiose actions, it is about the small things that we can do everyday.  Martin Luther King Jr.  had a dream for our nation.  My dream is simple, that everyone take the time to share a book with a child!  What is your dream?

Happy Reading!

Laura