My favorite book this Christmas season is Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou with illustrations by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. Ms. Angelou first read her poem at the 2005 White House tree-lighting ceremony right after Hurricane Katrina. Now in 2008, Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher collaborated together to create a beautiful children’s picture book showing a young family joining their diverse community of the rich and poor, black and white, and of different faiths to celebrate the holidays peacefully together.
Check out this link for a slideshow on the art of Amazing Peace:
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/amazingpeace/
Listen to Maya Angelou herself introduce her poem at this link:
Season’s Readings! ~Donna
Read it or Weep 