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There Was a Party for Langston
A Children or Middle Grade Book by Jason Reynolds
Subgenres:
- Picture Book Biography,
- African American History,
- Harlem Renaissance
This book is for you if you're into...
- Picture books celebrating Black literary legends and their legacy
- Rhythmic, musical language that begs to be read aloud
- Vivid illustrations capturing Harlem Renaissance energy
A Caldecott Honor Book. A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book. New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.
Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory.
Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be-bopping to recite poems at their hero's feet at that heckuva party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom, stepping and stomping, all in praise and love for Langston, world-mending word man.
Oh, yeah, there was hoopla in Harlem, for its Renaissance man. A party for Langston.
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