Colorful illustrations by two award-winning artists decorate Gilchrist’s short poem celebrating different aspects of America — which combine to make a rich, unified whole.
“Life is for me/and is shining!” begins the poem and continues as the child expresses her wish for a peaceful world in which there is laughter and family. Watercolors are both fantastical and realistic as the poem continues to a gleeful, “Life is for us,/and is shining./We have a right to sing.”
