The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
New York : Knopf, 1993.
Format: Book
Description: xi, 83 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"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.
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.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.
American poetry -- African American authors -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.
American poetry -- African American authors -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 1150L
ISBN:
067984421X
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C LITERATURE Poetry Hug | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Hug | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |