PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
by Maya Angelou (Author)
This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward," she writes, "and speak the word aloud. Peace." Read by the poet at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House on December 1, 2005, Maya Angelou' s celebration of the "Glad Season" is a radiant affirmation of the goodness of life.Author Biography
Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
Number of Pages: 32
Dimensions: 0.34 x 6.86 x 5.28 IN
Publication Date: December 01, 2005
Award: Quill Awards (2006)
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Interest Level: Lower Grades, K-3
Reading Level: 3.2
Point Value: 0.5
