We Are Shining

From Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist comes We Are Shining. Marking the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks, this powerful picture book is a celebration of the diversity of our world. This life-affirming poem is now illustrated for the very first time, with stunning, vibrant images.

A story of our shared humanity, Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world and the many different people in it. Brooks speaks to all children of the world in this moving poem about acceptance, stressing that every child should have the opportunity for a shining future and offering hope for a better tomorrow.

Life is for us, and is shining. We have a right to sing.

Pulitzer Prize—winning poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks speaks to all children of the world in this moving and life-affirming poem about acceptance and opportunity. In this story of our shared humanity, Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world and the many different people in it.

Accompanied by vibrant and stunning artwork from Coretta Scott King Award—winning illustrator Jan Spivey Gilchrist, this picture book is a powerful celebration of diversity and hope for a shining future, just in time to commemorate the esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks’s one hundredth birthday.