A review by mikolee
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Brian Pinkney, Andrea Davis Pinkney

4.0

Fascinating combination of Martin and Mahalia highlighting equally their shared gifts to the movement. Watercolor and India ink with an almost Sumi e brush painting like quality illustrate this story. Even the words are typeset in color combos to bring alive the images. Sometimes the storybook must be held portrait style which is a great metaphor for how both leaders made people view the world from a new perspective.

The ending is amazing. The first two pages of the afterword the author tells about their friendship. The next page the illustrator describes his inspiration and touts his homage to two social realist painters. Wow that is why the work looked so familiar.

Then more reading and listening to learn More about both. Then a gorgeous illustrated timeline. Really one of the best I've seen.