The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children & Yours

Politics & Social Sciences

Marian Wright Edelman

Philosophy

HarperCollins, Publishers

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, is one of the most important moral leaders in America. Her first book, The Measure of Our Success was a #1 New York Times bestseller -- spending 16 weeks on the list, selling more than 450,000 copies and garnering spectacular praise from Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey. Guide My Feet, her long-awaited second book, continues her crusade for the well-being of America's children by providing a counterweight to the lesson society is teaching this generation of children -- to be soulless takers instead of empowered givers. 
 Guide My Feet is a collection of prayers and meditations gathered from Edelman's own holiday rituals and experiences and the writings of such inspiring leaders as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and Frederick Douglass. It urges readers to commit to and pray for strength and patience, and offers solace and direction for parents troubled by the commercialism and violence running rampant in today's society. Filled with wisdom, compassion and understanding, it provides an important spiritual and moral resource all caregivers can turn to as they strive to instill values, integrity, self-discipline and faith in children.

Guide My Feet : Prayers and Meditations on Loving and Working for Children

Religion & Spirituality

Perennial

Winner, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Domestic Photo, 2006
Juvenile crime rates have dropped dramatically since the early 1990s, yet more young people are in juvenile detention today than at any other time in America's history. Most are nonviolent offenders. Many have mental health or substance abuse problems. All have been failed by some combination of their families, schools, churches, and communities. But instead of addressing these young people's needs for treatment, rehabilitation, and basic nurturing, we lock them away in an overburdened juvenile justice system that can do little more than warehouse troubled children.
This courageous work of photojournalism goes inside the system to offer an intimate, often disturbing view of children's experiences in juvenile detention. Steve Liss photographed and interviewed young detainees, their parents, and detention and probation officers in Laredo, Texas. His striking photographs reveal that these are vulnerable children—sometimes as young as ten—coping with a detention environment that most adults would find harsh. In the accompanying text, he brings in the voices of the young people who describe their already fractured lives and fragile dreams, as well as the words of their parents and juvenile justice workers who express frustration at not having more resources with which to help these kids. As Marian Wright Edelman asks in the foreword, "What does it say about us that the only thing our nation will guarantee every child is a costly jail or detention cell, while refusing them a place in Head Start or after-school child care, summer jobs, and other needed supports?" In the best tradition of photojournalism, No Place for Children is a call to action on behalf of America's at-risk youth.

No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention

Arts & Photography

Steve Liss

Cecilia Balli

Individual Artists

University of Texas Press

The #1 New York Times bestseller is a thinking person's Life's Little Instruction Book, with simple yet inspirational messages about living.

The Measure of Our Success : A Letter to My Children and Yours

Worship & Devotion

Turtleback Books: A Division o

The moving speech given by the author--the president of the Children's Defense Fund--in June 1996 at a rally at the Lincoln Memorial in support of America's commitment to its children is presented with photos of a quilt collage.

Stand for Children

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Presents a version of the 1996 speech given at the Lincoln Memorial by the president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund urging people to "Stand for Children"

Stand for Children!

Hyperion Books for Children

A beautiful gift edition of the number one New York Times bestseller—from the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.

The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Self-Help

Beacon Press

Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman The flagship publication of "the most powerful political force for children in this country" —Parenting The State of America 's Children is the "must-have handbook for child workers, activist parents, teachers, speechmakers, media professionals—anyone looking for hard data and moving stories to help them fight for children's well-being in America" —Feminist Bookstore News This essential report gives annually revised, comprehensive, and state-by-state data on family income, child health, children and families in crisis, child care and early childhood development, child nutrition, education, adolescent pregnancy, violence, and more. It features a call to action by Marian Wright Edelman, plus invaluable information on national trends in child poverty, births to teens, mothers in the workforce, and youth unemployment. Also here are dozens of authoritative tables and charts on material and infant health indicators by race of mother, child health coverage (best and worst states), children under age eighteen in foster care, and much more.

The State of America's Children Yearbook 1999

Children's Defense Fund

Sociology

Beacon Pr

The flagship publication of the Children's Defense Fund gives annually revised, comprehensive, and state-by-state data on family income, child health, children and families in crisis, child care and early childhood development, child nutrition, education adolescent pregnancy, and violence. It features a call to action by Marian Wright Edelman, plus invaluable information on natinal trends in child poverty, births to teen, mothers in the workforce, and youth unemployment. Also here are dozens of authoritative tables and charts on maternal and infant health indicators by race of mother, child health coverages (best and worst states), children under age eighteen in foster care, and much more.

The State of America's Children: A Report from the Children's Defense Fund (State of America's Children Yearbook, 2000)

Portrait of Inequality: Black and White Children in America

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