This illustration, for the book “A Place to Land: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation,” is part of the “Tenacity & Resilience: The Art of Jerry Pinkney” exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum. Anybody who hangs out in public libraries knows that the most emotional and immediate stuff is often hidden in plain sight in the children’s section. In part, that’s because authors need to make bold, simple, straightforward statements in order to inscribe their themes on young minds. But mostly, it’s because children’s books have pictures, and pictures go straight into your blo…
