The Dream Keeper and Other Poems - Couverture rigide

Hughes, Langston

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 067984421X ISBN 13 : 9780679844211

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Dream Keeper and Other Poems Hughes' classic collection of poetry for children is now available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published (in 1932). All-new illustrations accompany the inspirational and uplifting message to young people, as strong and relevant today as it was in 1932. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 067984421X
• ISBN 13: 9780679844211
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 83
• Illustrateur: Pinkney J. Brian