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.

"Text originally published as " A Little Girl's Poem" in Very Young Poets, Brooks Press, Chicago, IL. Copyright © 1983 by Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely."--Title page verso.