The Dream Keeper and Other Poems - Rilegato

Hughes, Langston

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 067984421X ISBN 13: 9780679844211

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007

Riassunto

"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."

The Dream Keeper, the great African-American writer Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children, includes some of his best loved works. It is being reissued in a handsome hardcover edition in celebration of its 75th anniversary. Filled with elegant scratchboard illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pinkey, and featuring an introduction by noted children's poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, this gift edition is sure to be cherished by young readers and longtime poetry lovers alike.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Langston Hughes, is the most widely recognized African-American poet of the twentieth century. Born in Mississippi in 1902, he spent most of his adult life in Harlem, where he died in 1967.Brian Pinkney has received two Caldecott Honors, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.

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ack-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 067984421X
• ISBN 13: 9780679844211
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Disegnatore: Pinkney J. Brian
• Numero di pagine: 83
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile