I, Too, Am America

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Langston Hughes poem fighting segregation and discrimination is coupled with award winning illustrator Bryan Collier's beautiful paintings. As far as we have come, Hughes call for equality is still necessary today. It is an important reminder that as Americans we are bond by how we are different just as much as how we are the same.

Bryan Collier is the author and illustrator of the Coretta Scott King Award-winning book Uptown. He has also illustrated Martin’s Big Words, which was also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book; Rosa, which received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; Dave the Potter, for which he won the Caldecott Honor; Your Moon, My Moon; and the #1 New York Times bestselling Barack Obama. Mr. Collier lives in New York.