A beautifully designed volume of poetry in which Myers again pairs selections from his collection of antique photographs of children, especially African American children, with his original poetry, here celebrating the bond between mother and child. Like the earlier Brown Angels (HarperCollins, 1993) and Glorious Angels (HarperCollins, 1995), Angel to Angel is an elegant book to look at. Silver border designs frame elements on every page, and the shining faces on those pages look out from photographs that are also edged in silver. Not every photograph is necessarily of a mother and child. Some, Myers notes, may be of other adult women in the children's lives. Others are of children only. "It's the feelings of love that define a relationship," the author notes in the introduction, and certainly that feeling of love, of someone loving and treasuring the child that is pictured, can be filled in by the reader. Myers's poetry evokes a wide range of moods, from contemplative to deeply loving, sassy to silly, in another book to be treasured by families. (All ages)

The companion volume of "Brown Angels" and " Glorious Angels."

In the cherished tradition of "Brown Angels" and " Glorious Angels, " award-winning author Walter Dean Myers has once again combined his inimitable verse with his painstakingly assembled collection of antique photographs.

Speak softly in the morning
And lights in with your smile
You will soft-speak "Mama"
And I will soft-speak "Child"

Or I will soft-speak "Bluebirds"
And you can soft-speak "Breeze"
And I will spend the summer day
With an angel on my knees

"it's the feeling of love that define the relationship between a mother and a child." writes Walter Dean Myers. In this beautiful book he asks us to join him in celebration of families from across the country, and across the years, and of mothers most of all.

Walter Dean Myers has written may highly acclaimed books for children and young adults, including "Brown Angel" and the Newberry Honor book "Scorpions." He received the Coretts Scott King Award for "Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom, " and the 1994 Margaret E. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award given by the American Library Association. He live in New Jersey, NJ.