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by: Alice Walker
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5209
EAN: 9780060798895
ISBN: 0060798890
Label: Amistad
Manufacturer: Amistad
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 48
Publication Date: January 01, 2006
Publisher: Amistad
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Sales Rank: 1314291
Studio: Amistad
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One of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Langston Hughes influenced many writers -- including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. In this moving and richly detailed portrait, she celebrates the life of the man who fell in love with books at a young age and grew up to write about Black people as he saw them: happy, mad, sad, and beautiful. Illustrated with stunning paintings by Catherine Deeter, this book will introduce a whole new generation to the life and works of an extraordinary man.
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Rating: - American poet
This is a very touching book for both children and adults alike. The portrait of America in another era is accurate and informative for young minds to understand how things were once upon a time. The biographical sketch relays the influnces early on in Langston Hughes life which shaped him to become one of the great poets of the twentieth century, in spite of racism. His father lived in Mexico and had a disregard for black people who seperated himself to the extent of living in Mexico. Although ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent picturebook biography
Catherine Deeter's paintings accompany this celebration of poet Langston Hughes' life, which reads like fiction as it surveys the influences on Hughes' career and the motivations behind his writings and life. An excellent picturebook biography, this requires reading skills but will appeal to grades 2-4.
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