TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (illustrated by Fred Fordham)

It is one of my favorite books.

First time I read it in my adolescence. After that, I read it countless times. And I read it aloud to my boys to make sure that they know this book. 

I was glad to find the illustrated edition last year.
Fred Fordham is the illustrator of this edition. I believe that is an excellent idea for all the readers, no matter their age. 

“Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal… There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions.
The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious — because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others — some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal — there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president.

That institution, gentlemen, is a court.”
ATTICUS FINCH – Father and Lawyer

Editura: William Heinemann: London