"My Recent Visit to Xanadu"

1999 Franklin, John Hope (1915-2009). “My Recent Visit to Xanadu.” Xanadu, the Imaginary Place. A Showcase of Artwork and Writing by North Carolina’s Children. Ed. Maya Ajmera and Olateju Omolodun (Durham, NC: Shakti for Children, 1999), [1-2], with “Reflections” by the editors [26-28]. [31 pp]. PSt

A brief description of a eutopia written for children in which there is racial harmony, no tobacco or weapons, no crime and no police, and “love, justice, and tolerance.” The eutopia is accompanied by stories and poems about and illustrations of Xanadu by children that range from the traditional Cockaige with a volcano the expels candy to the poignant desire that every child has a mother and father to racial diversity and world peace. All the children are in elementary school. African American author.