Lullaby For a black mother

Langston Hughes, 1902-1967

Book - 2021

"'My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?' With gracefully chosen words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between an African American mother and her baby. Award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls's painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with tenderness and whimsy. Like little love-ones, this beautiful book is a treasure."--

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Subjects
Genres
Picture books
Poetry
Board books
Published
Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 (author)
Other Authors
Sean Qualls (illustrator)
Item Description
Cover title.
On board pages.
Poem originally published in the collection, The dream keeper and other poems, by Knopf in 1932.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN
9780358566151
Contents unavailable.
Review by School Library Journal Review

Baby-Toddler--Crafted from Hughes's lilting words, this sturdy version of a previously published book sings of a Black mother's love through her "sleep-song lullaby." Night stars, diamond moon, and mother and child are rendered ever so tenderly in paint and collage. VERDICT A lovely send-off to the land of dreams.

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