There Was a Party for Langston
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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.
There Was a Party for Langston
By Jason Reynolds
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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.
ISBN
9781534439443
Pages
56 pages
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published
Oct 3, 2023
Language
en
Cover type
Hardcover
Book details
- Authors
- Jason Reynolds
- ISBN
- 9781534439443
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Published
- Oct 3, 2023
- Publication year
- 2023
- Pages
- 56
- Dimensions
- 11.5 in × 0.105 in × 9.75 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Juvenile NonfictionBiography & AutobiographyLiteraryCuriosities & WondersPeople & PlacesUnited StatesAfrican American & BlackJuvenile FictionHolidays & CelebrationsOther, Non-ReligiousImagination & Play