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The GAN review was critical of the reliance on Campbell for the "Content" section. For reviewer convenience, here is a comparison of article and source material. Geometry guy 14:03, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article. Featured in Dancing the Dream are twenty poems and essays written by Jackson. They mainly focus on children, animals and the environment. One of the poems talks of coping with the discovery of an oil-covered seagull feather, while a second documents the plight of seals who ponder whether or not they will be killed by hunters. Another details elephants who refuse to lie down and die in order to give up their tusks for the trinkets of man. In the reflection Mother Earth, Jackson talks of how humans have mistreated the planet, stating, "We've been treating Mother Earth the way some people treat a rental apartment. Just trash it and move on."


Article. In a poem titled after his late friend Ryan White, who died in 1990 following a battle with HIV/AIDS, Jackson explains that he misses the teenager and that the boy suffered because of people's ignorance towards his disease:

Ryan White, symbol of agony and pain
Of ignorant fear gone insane...


Article. The poem Mother was written for Katherine, to whom Jackson was deeply devoted:

No matter where I go from here
You're in my heart, mother dear.

Mother had previously been published in Katherine's own book, My Family. Some of the other material in Dancing the Dream had been featured by Michael Jackson in the past. The poem Dancing the Dream, titled The Dance, and Planet Earth were included in the liner notes of Jackson's 1991 Dangerous album. Also included in the book, were the lyrics to the songs "Will You Be There" and "Heal the World".


Article. The 100 photographs in Dancing the Dream were billed as being "previously unreleased". In fact, this was incorrect as some of them had been featured previously in a 1985 Jackson calendar, and the magazines Ebony and People. Others were stills from the music videos of "Black or White" and "Remember the Time", as well as images taken from a performance by Jackson at MTV's tenth anniversary celebration.