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Aunt Sue’s Stories
A stellar combination of words and illustrations sure to inform and inspire children across a wide range of ages. A must-read.
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An Earth Song (Petite Poems)
Not essential but a highly recommended addition to both school and public library collections.
That Is My Dream!: A Picture Book of Langston Hughes's "Dream Variation."
This lovely uplifting iteration of a classic Hughes poem achieves accessibility for a younger audience.
Sail Away
An impressive picture book of poetry to be read, reread, and cherished for generations to come.—Carole Phillips, Greenacres Elementary School, Scarsdale, NY
Using his mother's sewing scissors, reproduced on the endpapers as adornments to sailing ships, Ashley Bryan crafts vivid paper collages to illustrate a selection of water-related poetry by Langston Hughes. Bryan seems to draw on Henri Matisse as inspiration, in technique, color, line, and shape. From the curvaceous forms of waves and seaweed to the visible marks and seams of the paper cuttings, the echoes are clear. Bryan's construction-paper palette—a rainbow of pastels, jewel tones, browns, and grays
Lullaby (For a Black Mother)
PreS—Presented for the first time as a full-length picture book, Hughes's lyrical poem comes to life through Qualls's lush collage-style illustration...
I, Too, Am America
K-Gr 5—Hughes's poem of burgeoning pride in one's African American identity, written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1925, is interpreted anew in this striking picture book...
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