4 Easiest Books about Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Here are the four easiest books about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

We'd like to note that our library system carries none of these books so all comments are based on what information we could acquire through other means.

Let's Get Ready for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
(Welcome Books: Celebrations)
by Lloyd G. Douglas

This simple book features children learning about Dr. King. The font is very large and here is the sample text from one page:

My name is Jake.

My class is getting ready
for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

This holiday is celebrated
on Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s birthday.

The TOC follows. I like to note that if you look at the sample text from this book and the following book by Pamela Walker that this one has more text per page and more complicated sentences.

Table of Contents
Getting Ready
Drawing Posters
Helping Others
New Words
To Find Out More

Index
About the Author

Reading Information:
Word Count: 142
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading level: 1.7 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 68224

Publisher: Children's Press (2003)
ISBN-10: 0516243519
-- sample pages

Martin Luther King Jr.
(Real People)
by Pamela Walker

Below is some sample text from one page. It's interesting to note that though this book is supposedly at a more difficult level that the sentences are shorter.

This is Martin Luther King, Jr.

He helped many people.

Here is the TOC.

Table of Contents
Giving Speeches
Peace for All People
Leading a March
New Words
To Find Out More

Index
About the Author

Reading Information:
Word Count: 128
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading level: 1.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 83367
Lexile: 450L

Publisher: Children's Press (2000)
ISBN-10: 0516235907
-- sample pages

Weekly Reader -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
(Our Country's Holidays)
by Sheri Dean

The big advantage to this book is that it's available in Spanish too!
No look inside available for this book, and no reviews.

Reading Information:
Word Count: 198
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading level: 2.0 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 104604

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing (2010)
ISBN-10: 1433939185

Espanol
Dia De Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paperback: 24 pages
Publisher: Weekly Reader Early Learning; Bilingual edition (2005)
ISBN-10: 0836865278

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
(National Holidays)
by Helen Frost

Capstone Press sometimes falters in it's production quality and this is apparently 'one of those books'. The one review available for this book is very negative. It appears that the images were not well chosen and were confusing. If you click through to Amazon you can see what Pamela K. Bomboy, of Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia (syndicated by Reed) has to say.

Reading Information:
Word Count: 153
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading level: 2.0 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 36815
Lexile: 330L

Publisher: Capstone Press (2006)
ISBN-10: 073688727X

compiled by Pam T

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