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Martin's Big Words is a 2007 award winning picture book written by Americans Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Brian Collier. It was first published by Hyperion Book Ch.

The book provides a brief background of Martin Luther King with portions of his renowned "I Have a Dream" speech included. The illustrations provide a visual representation of the meaning of his words.

The book won the Caldecott Awards as well as the Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Picture Award. The book's Illustrator Brian Collier won a Corretta Scott King honor award.

RECEPTION

Publisher's Weekly praised the book as an elegant, understated pictorial biography. The Horn Book Magazine praised Collier writing The facts are extended by Bryan Collier’s breathtaking collage illustrations, which dazzle, challenge, and inspire with their repletion of motifs (such as stained-glass windows) and the mixture of symbols and realism (as in the depiction of black Americans carrying a flag as they march for freedom). This exemplary biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century will remind another generation of the grandeur of his legacy."